000693784 000__ 03211cam\a2200409\i\4500 000693784 001__ 693784 000693784 005__ 20210515093428.0 000693784 008__ 130528s2013\\\\ncu\\\\\\\\\\\001\0\eng\\ 000693784 010__ $$a 2013018033 000693784 019__ $$a828495298 000693784 020__ $$a9781611634099$$qpaperback$$qalkaline paper 000693784 020__ $$a1611634091$$qpaperback$$qalkaline paper 000693784 035__ $$a(OCoLC)ocn828487013 000693784 040__ $$aDLC$$beng$$erda$$cDLC$$dYDX$$dBTCTA$$dYDXCP$$dBWX$$dTYV$$dAZT$$dOCLCF$$dCRH 000693784 042__ $$apcc 000693784 043__ $$an-us--- 000693784 049__ $$aISEA 000693784 05000 $$aHG4061$$b.B8372 2013 000693784 08200 $$a332.6$$223 000693784 1001_ $$aBuffett, Warren. 000693784 24010 $$aEssays.$$kSelections 000693784 24514 $$aThe essays of Warren Buffett :$$blessons for corporate America /$$cessays by Warren E. Buffet, selected, arranged, and introduced by Lawrence A. Cunningham. 000693784 250__ $$aThird edition. 000693784 264_1 $$aDurham, North Carolina :$$bCarolina Academic Press,$$c[2013] 000693784 300__ $$a307 pages :$$billustrations ;$$c26 cm 000693784 336__ $$atext$$2rdacontent 000693784 337__ $$aunmediated$$2rdamedia 000693784 338__ $$avolume$$2rdacarrier 000693784 504__ $$aIncludes index. 000693784 5050_ $$aPrologue : owner-related business principles -- I. Corporate governance -- Full and fair disclosure -- Boards and mangers -- The anxieties of business change -- Social compacts -- An owner-based approach to corporate charity -- A principled approach to executive pay -- Risk, reputation and oversight -- II. Finance and investing -- Mr. Market -- Arbitrage -- Debunking standard dogma -- "Value" investing : a redundancy -- Intelligent investing -- Cigar butts and the institutional imperative -- Life and debt -- III. Investment alternatives -- Surveying the field -- Junk bonds -- Zero-coupon bonds -- Preferred stock -- Derivatives -- Foreign currencies and equities -- Home ownership : practice and policy -- IV. Common stock -- The bane of trading : transaction costs -- Attracting the right sort of investor -- Dividend policy and share repurchases -- Stock splits and trading activity -- Shareholder strategies -- Berkshire's recapitalization -- V. Mergers and acquisitions -- Bad motives and high prices -- Sensible share repurchases versus greenmail -- Leveraged buyouts -- Sound acquisition policies -- On selling one's business -- The buyer of choice -- VI. Valuation and accounting -- Aesop and inefficient Bush theory -- Intrinsic value, book value, and market price -- Look-through earnings -- Economic versus accounting goodwill -- Owner earnings and the cash flow fallacy -- Option valuation -- VII. Accounting shenanigans -- Satire -- Standard setting -- Stock options -- "Restructuring" changes -- Pension estimates -- Realization events -- VIII. Accounting policy -- Mergers -- Segment data and consolidation -- Deferred taxes -- Retiree benefits -- IX. Tax matters -- Distribution of the corporate tax burden -- Taxation and investment philosophy. 000693784 650_0 $$aCorporations$$zUnited States$$xFinance. 000693784 650_0 $$aCorporate governance$$zUnited States. 000693784 650_0 $$aInvestments$$zUnited States. 000693784 650_0 $$aStocks$$zUnited States. 000693784 650_0 $$aConsolidation and merger of corporations$$zUnited States. 000693784 650_0 $$aAccounting$$zUnited States. 000693784 7001_ $$aCunningham, Lawrence A.,$$d1962- 000693784 85200 $$bgen$$hHG4061$$i.B8372$$i2013 000693784 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:693784$$pGLOBAL_SET 000693784 980__ $$aBIB 000693784 980__ $$aBOOK