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100 1 $aBuffett, Warren,$eauthor.
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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 $aFifth edition.
264 1 $a[Durham, North Carolina] :$b[Carolina Academic Press],$c[2019]
264 4 $c©2019
300 $a342 pages :$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"CAP"--Spine.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aPrologue : owner-related business principles -- I. 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 climate change -- Corporate culture -- II. 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, debt, swoons -- III. 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 -- Business partnerships -- IV. Common stock. Beating costs with indexing -- Attracting quality shareholders -- Stock splits and the invisible foot -- Berkshire's dual class : thwarting clones -- Buybacks and rationality -- Dividends and capital allocation -- V. 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. 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. Satire -- Standard setting -- Audit committees -- ""Adjusted earnings" -- Pension estimates and retiree benefits -- Realization events -- Investments -- VIII. Taxation. Distribution of the corporate tax burden -- Taxation and investment philosophy -- IX. History. The American miracle -- Productivity growth -- Tailwinds --X. Coda. Buffet on Berkshire culture -- 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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