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Those variables are: (1) Income from Continuing Operations/Beginning Equity; (2) Earnings Before Interest and Income Taxes/Beginning Assets; (3) Sales/Beginning Assets; (4) Sales; (5) Operating Profit/Sales; (6) Cash Available for Debt Service/Sales; (7) Income Tax Expense/Sales.","Empirical evidence strongly supports the hypothesis that management performance improves in the two years after a leveraged buyout as compared to the two years before the buyout. Savings in income taxes account for part of the improvement, but efficiency types of improvement are also evident.","Underlying causes for improvement are not obvious. Neither financial statements nor interviews establish the reasons for change. Institutional investor executives, principals in leveraged buyout investment firms, and CEOs of leveraged buyout companies provide useful information, but do not directly identify causes. 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