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100 1 $aBuffett, Warren,$eauthor.
240 10 $aEssays.$kSelections
245 14 $aThe essays of Warren Buffett :$blessons for corporate America /$cessays by Warren E. Buffet ; selected, arranged, and introduced by Lawrence A. Cunningham.
250 $aFourth edition.
264 1 $a[Durham, North Carolina] :$b[Carolina Academic Press],$c[2015]
264 4 $c©2015
300 $a313 pages :$billustrations ;$c26 cm
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500 $aOriginally 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.
500 $a"Celebrating 50 years of Berkshire Hathaway. Celebrating 20 years of Buffett's essays"--Front cover
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aPrologue : 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 -- 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.
520 $aThe 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.
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700 1 $aCunningham, Lawrence A.,$d1962-$eeditor.
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