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03603aam a2200445 i 4500 001 5277A2568B3F11E48EA3C3A4DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20190228010452 008 130528s2013 ncu 001 0 eng 010 $a 2013018033 020 $a 1611634091 (alk. paper) 020 $a 9781611634099 (alk. paper) 035 $a (OCoLC)828487013 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d BTCTA $d YDXCP $d BWX $d TYV $d AZT $d OCLCF $d CRH $d KAY $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a HG4061 $b .B8372 2013 082 00 $a 332.6 $2 23 100 1 $a Buffett, Warren. $9 57525 240 10 $a Essays. $k Selections 245 14 $a The essays of Warren Buffett : $b lessons for corporate America / $c essays by Warren E. Buffet, selected, arranged, and introduced by Lawrence A. Cunningham. 250 $a Third edition. 260 $a Durham, North Carolina : $b Carolina Academic Press, $c [2013] 300 $a 307 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 26 cm 504 $a Includes index. 505 0 $a Prologue : owner-related business principles -- I. Corporate governance -- Full and fair disclosure -- Boards and mangers -- 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 -- 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 -- Zero-coupon bonds -- 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 trading activity -- Shareholder strategies -- Berkshire's recapitalization -- 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 -- Realization events -- VIII. Accounting policy -- Mergers -- Segment data and consolidation -- Deferred taxes -- Retiree benefits -- IX. Tax matters -- Distribution of the corporate tax burden -- Taxation and investment philosophy. 520 $a 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. 650 0 $a Corporations $z United States $x Finance. 650 0 $a Corporate governance $z United States. $9 465901 650 0 $a Investments $z United States. $9 199699 650 0 $a Stocks $z United States. $9 231983 650 0 $a Consolidation and merger of corporations $z United States. 650 0 $a Accounting $z United States. 700 1 $a Cunningham, Lawrence A., $d 1962- 941 $a 3 952 $l DPPE403 $d 20240611020720.0 952 $l FXPH314 $d 20220909032118.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191210025404.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=5277A2568B3F11E48EA3C3A4DAD10320 994 $a C0 $b KAYInitiate Another SILO Locator Search