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The essays of Warren Buffett : lessons for corporate America / essays by Warren E. Buffet ; selected, arranged, and introduced by Lawrence A. Cunningham.
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- Author(s): Buffett, Warren; Cunningham, Lawrence A., 1962-, editor
- Language:
English- Publication Information:
[Durham, North Carolina] : [Carolina Academic Press], [2015]- Publication Date:
2015- Physical Description:
313 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm- Publication Type:
Book- Document Type:
Bibliographies; Non-fiction- Subject Terms:
- Availability: 2 Holdings
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- Additional Information
- Publication Information: Fourth edition.
- Abstract: Summary: The author's annual letters to the stockholders of Berkshire Hathaway are edited to present the main themes regarding business, investing, price, value, corporate governance, and other important topics.
- Content Notes: Prologue : Owner-related business principles -- I. Corporate governance. Full and fair disclosure -- Boards and managers -- The anxieties of business change -- Social compacts -- An owner-based approach to corporate charity -- A principled approach to executive pay -- Risk, reputation and oversight corporate culture -- II. Finance and investing. Farms, real estate and stock -- Mr. Market -- Arbitrage -- Debunking standard dogma -- "Value" investing : a redundancy -- Intelligent investing -- Cigar butts and the institutional imperative -- Life and debt -- III. Investment alternatives. Surveying the field -- Junk bonds and the dagger thesis -- Zero-coupon bonds and ski masks -- Preferred stock -- Derivatives -- Foreign currencies and equities -- Home ownership : practice and policy -- IV. Common stock. The bane of trading : transaction costs -- Attracting the right sort of investor -- Dividend policy and share repurchases -- Stock splits and the invisible foot -- Shareholder strategies -- Berkshire's recapitalization -- Berkshire's dividend policy -- V. Mergers and acquisitions. Bad motives and high prices -- Sensible share repurchases versus greenmail -- Leveraged buyouts -- Sound acquisition policies -- On selling one's business -- The buyer of choice -- VI. Valuation and accounting. Aesop and inefficient Bush theory -- Intrinsic value, book value, and market price -- Look-through earnings -- Economic versus accounting goodwill -- Owner earnings and the cash flow fallacy -- Option valuation -- VII. Accounting shenanigans. Satire -- Standard setting -- Stock options -- "Restructuring" changes -- Pension estimates and retiree benefits -- Realization events -- VIII. Taxation. Distribution of the corporate tax burden -- Taxation and investment philosophy -- IX. Berkshire at fifty and beyond. Conglomerates and succession -- Munger on "The Berkshire System" -- Methuselah's estate.
- Notes: Originally published as part of the Cardozo Law Review's special issue on The Essays of Warren Buffett Symposium in 1995. This title originally published in 2001.
"Celebrating 50 years of Berkshire Hathaway. Celebrating 20 years of Buffett's essays"--Front cover
Includes bibliographical references and index.
17 22 - ISBN: 9781611637588
1611637589 - Accession Number: 2015494722
- Accession Number: 935694369
- Accession Number: ccp.1034652
- Publication Information:
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- Branch: John's Island Library - Non-Fiction Area
- Call Number: 332.6 BUFFETT
- Branch: Wando Mount Pleasant Library - Non-Fiction Area
- Call Number: 332.6 BUFFETT
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