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• Title:[Essays. Selections]
  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/Creator:Buffett, Warren, author.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Cunningham, Lawrence A., 1962- editor, writer of introduction, publisher.
  
• Published/Created:[Washington, DC?] : Laurence A. Cunningham, [2015]
  

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  • Location:DAVID LAM LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: HG4061 .B8372 2015
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Corporations--United States--Finance.
  Corporate governance--United States.
  Investments--United States.
  Stocks--United States.
  Consolidation and merger of corporations--United States.
  Accounting--United States.
  
• Genre/Form: Essays.
  
• Edition:Fourth edition.
  
• Description:313 pages ; 26 cm
  
• 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.
  
• Notes:"Celebrating 50 years of Berkshire Hathaway, 20 years of Buffett's essays"--Cover.
  Third edition published: Durham, North Carolina : Carolina Academic Press, 2013.
  "Copies of this collection are available in larger quantities at special discounts to use for teaching, training, promotions, premiums or other purposes. For more information, please contact the editor and publisher, Lawrence A. Cunningham, at lacunningham@law.gwu.edu"--Verso of title page.
  "Originally published as part of the Cardozo Law Review's special issue on The Essays of Warren Buffett Symposium." -- Title page verso.
  
• ISBN:9781611637588 paperback
  1611637589 paperback
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: I. Corporate Governance
  A. Full and Fair Disclosure
  B. Boards and Managers
  C. Anxieties of Business Change
  D. Social Compacts
  E. Owner-Based Approach to Corporate Charity
  F. Principled Approach to Executive Pay
  G. Risk, Reputation and Oversight
  H. Corporate Culture
  II. Finance and Investing
  A. Farms, Real Estate and Stock
  B. Mr. Market
  C. Arbitrage
  D. Debunking Standard Dogma
  E. "Value" Investing: A Redundancy
  F. Intelligent Investing
  G. Cigar Butts and the Institutional Imperative
  H. Life and Debt
  III. Investment Alternatives
  A. Surveying the Field
  B. Junk Bonds and the Dagger Thesis
  C. Zero-Coupon Bonds and Ski Masks
  D. Preferred Stock
  E. Derivatives
  F. Foreign Currencies and Equities
  G. Home Ownership: Practice and Policy
  IV. Common Stock
  A. Bane of Trading: Transaction Costs
  B. Attracting the Right Sort of Investor
  C. Dividend Policy and Share Repurchases
  D. Stock Splits and the Invisible Foot
  E. Shareholder Strategies
  F. Berkshire's Recapitalization
  G. Berkshire's Dividend Policy
  V. Mergers and Acquisitions
  A. Bad Motives and High Prices
  B. Sensible Share Repurchases Versus Greenmail
  C. Leveraged Buyouts
  D. Sound Acquisition Policies
  E. On Selling One's Business
  F. Buyer of Choice
  VI. Valuation and Accounting
  A. Aesop and Inefficient Bush Theory
  B. Intrinsic Value, Book Value, and Market Price
  C. Look-Through Earnings
  D. Economic versus Accounting Goodwill
  E. Owner Earnings and the Cash Flow Fallacy
  F. Option Valuation
  VII. Accounting Shenanigans
  A. Satire
  B. Standard Setting
  C. Stock Options
  D. "Restructuring" Charges
  E. Pension Estimates and Retiree Benefits
  F. Realization Events
  VIII. Taxation
  A. Distribution of the Corporate Tax Burden
  B. Taxation and Investment Philosophy
  IX. Berkshire at Fifty and Beyond
  A. Conglomerates and Succession
  B. Munger on "The Berkshire System"
  C. Methuselah's Estate.