Lloyd A. Levitin (born 1932) is an American businessman, former business executive and currently professor of clinical finance and business economics at the University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business. He teaches financial analysis and valuation courses in the full-time MBA and undergraduate programs. He has published articles on corporate diversification and accountants' scope of liability for defective financial reports. He was simultaneously executive vice president, treasurer and chief financial officer of Pacific Enterprises (now Sempra Energy), as well as executive vice president and chief financial officer of the

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Company (wholly owned subsidiary of Pacific Enterprises). He has 31 years of experience in corporate management. Prior thereto, he was associate professor of business at San Francisco State University. He also has a CPA certificate. On June 6, 1996, he testified before the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs of the United States Senate regarding the proposed Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1996, S. 1317. His analysis of the financial health of

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persuaded the United States Department of Justice to permit the merger of Southern Pacific with Union Pacific in 1996

Education: Juris Doctor, JD, University of San Francisco (1961). MBA, University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School of Finance and Commerce (1956). BS in Accounting, University of California (1954). He is married to

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, a novelist, and has two children,

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and Shari Levitin. He and his wife are among the founders of the Moraga Historical Society.

References

Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1996 – Report of the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, United States Senate, to accompany S. 1317. September 9, 1996
cites Lloyd Levitin as JurEcon's financial expert * ttp://www.moragahistory.org/about/organization.html Moraga Historical Society – MHS Organization 1932 births Living people University of Southern California faculty Jewish American academics San Francisco State University faculty University of San Francisco alumni Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania alumni University of California alumni American chief financial officers 20th-century American businesspeople 21st-century American Jews {{US-business-bio-1930s-stub