Warren Buffett and the Interpretation of Financial Statements

Warren Buffett and the Interpretation of Financial Statements
Author: Mary Buffett
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2011-01-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1849833249

With an insider's view of the mind of the master, Mary Buffett and David Clark have written a simple guide for reading financial statements from Buffett's successful perspective. They clearly outline Warren Buffett's strategies in a way that will appeal to newcomers and seasoned Buffettologists alike. Inspired by the seminal work of Buffett's mentor, Benjamin Graham, this book presents Buffett's interpretation of financial statements with anecdotes and quotes from the master investor himself. Destined to become a classic in the world of investment books, Warren Buffett and the Interpretation of Financial Statements is the perfect companion volume to The New Buffettology and The Tao of Warren Buffett.

The Interpretation of Financial Statements

The Interpretation of Financial Statements
Author: Benjamin Graham
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 152
Release: 1998-05-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0887309135

"All investors, from beginners to old hands, should gain from the use of this guide, as I have." From the Introduction by Michael F. Price, president, Franklin Mutual Advisors, Inc. Benjamin Graham has been called the most important investment thinker of the twentieth century. As a master investor, pioneering stock analyst, and mentor to investment superstars, he has no peer. The volume you hold in your hands is Graham's timeless guide to interpreting and understanding financial statements. It has long been out of print, but now joins Graham's other masterpieces, The Intelligent Investor and Security Analysis, as the three priceless keys to understanding Graham and value investing. The advice he offers in this book is as useful and prescient today as it was sixty years ago. As he writes in the preface, "if you have precise information as to a company's present financial position and its past earnings record, you are better equipped to gauge its future possibilities. And this is the essential function and value of security analysis." Written just three years after his landmark Security Analysis, The Interpretation of Financial Statements gets to the heart of the master's ideas on value investing in astonishingly few pages. Readers will learn to analyze a company's balance sheets and income statements and arrive at a true understanding of its financial position and earnings record. Graham provides simple tests any reader can apply to determine the financial health and well-being of any company. This volume is an exact text replica of the first edition of The Interpretation of Financial Statements, published by Harper & Brothers in 1937. Graham's original language has been restored, and readers can be assured that every idea and technique presented here appears exactly as Graham intended. Highly practical and accessible, it is an essential guide for all business people--and makes the perfect companion volume to Graham's investment masterpiece The Intelligent Investor.

Warren Buffett Accounting Book

Warren Buffett Accounting Book
Author: Preston Pysh
Publisher:
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2014-05-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781939370150

"Teaches essential accounting terminology and techniques that serious stock investors need to know." -- Preface

The New Buffettology

The New Buffettology
Author: Mary Buffett
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 393
Release: 2012-12-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1471104435

Published in 1997, the bestselling BUFFETTOLOGY was tailored to the conditions of investors in the midst of a long bull market. Now, four years later, that market has seen once hot tech stocks crash and investors scramble to move their assets, or what remains of them, back to the safety of traditional blue chip companies. As peaks turn to troughs, worried investors wonder if there are any constants in today's volatile market. The answer is yes: Warren Buffett's value investing strategies make money. And, as THE NEW BUFFETTOLOGY demonstrates, there is no time to acquire like today's bear market. THE NEW BUFFETTOLOGY is the first guide to Warren Buffett's strategy for exploiting down stocks - a strategy that has made him the world's second richest person. Designed to teach investors how to decipher and use financial information like Buffett himself, this one-of-a-kind guide walks readers step-by-step through the equations and formulas Buffett uses to determine what to invest in and, just as importantly, when. Authors Mary Buffett and David Clark explore Buffett's recent investments in detail, proving time and time again that his strategy has earned enormous profits at a time when no one expects them - and with almost zero risk to his capital.

Financial Statement Analysis

Financial Statement Analysis
Author: Martin S. Fridson
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 414
Release: 2002-10-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0471264601

Praise for Financial Statement Analysis A Practitioner's Guide Third Edition "This is an illuminating and insightful tour of financial statements, how they can be used to inform, how they can be used to mislead, and how they can be used to analyze the financial health of a company." -Professor Jay O. Light Harvard Business School "Financial Statement Analysis should be required reading for anyone who puts a dime to work in the securities markets or recommends that others do the same." -Jack L. Rivkin Executive Vice President (retired) Citigroup Investments "Fridson and Alvarez provide a valuable practical guide for understanding, interpreting, and critically assessing financial reports put out by firms. Their discussion of profits-'quality of earnings'-is particularly insightful given the recent spate of reporting problems encountered by firms. I highly recommend their book to anyone interested in getting behind the numbers as a means of predicting future profits and stock prices." -Paul Brown Chair-Department of Accounting Leonard N. Stern School of Business, NYU "Let this book assist in financial awareness and transparency and higher standards of reporting, and accountability to all stakeholders." -Patricia A. Small Treasurer Emeritus, University of California Partner, KCM Investment Advisors "This book is a polished gem covering the analysis of financial statements. It is thorough, skeptical and extremely practical in its review." -Daniel J. Fuss Vice Chairman Loomis, Sayles & Company, LP

The Warren Buffett Stock Portfolio

The Warren Buffett Stock Portfolio
Author: Mary Buffett
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 138
Release: 2011-12-08
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0857208446

Warren Buffett's Stock Portfoliois the first book to take readers deep into Warren Buffett's investment portfolio. Each of Buffett's current stock investments is analyzed in detail with information as to why Buffett found these attractive businesses and how he determined that they are good long-term investments. Each company will analyzed using the criteria outlined in Buffettologyand Warren Buffett and the Interpretation of Financial Statements. The reader can then apply these techniques to a variety of other stocks and see if they meet Buffett's criteria. Although information about Warren Buffett's stock portfolio is available on-line, it is merely listings of the stocks Warren owns. No one else explains the criteria Warren uses to determine how and when to buy and sell. In addition this book will include stocks that are too new to be on-line. The authors will also look at a few top-performing stocks that Warren has sold in the last ten years.

The Tao of Warren Buffett

The Tao of Warren Buffett
Author: Mary Buffett
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2006-11-21
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1416544267

A collection of the inspiring words and wisdom from America's favorite businessman that reveal his secrets of success from the bestselling authors of Buffettology and The New Buffettology. Like the sayings of the ancient Chinese philosopher Lao-tzu, Warren Buffett's worldly wisdom is deceptively simple and enormously powerful in application. In The Tao of Warren Buffett, Mary Buffett—author of three books on Warren Buffett's investment methods—joins noted Buffettologist and international lecturer David Clark to bring you Warren Buffett's smartest, funniest, and most memorable sayings with an eye toward revealing the life philosophy and the investment strategies that have made Warren Buffett, and the shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway, so enormously wealthy. Warren Buffett's investment achievements are unparalleled. He owes his success to hard work, integrity, and that most elusive commodity of all, common sense. The quotations in this book exemplify Warren's practical strategies and provide useful illustrations for every investor—large or small—and models everyone can follow. The quotes are culled from a variety of sources, including personal conversations, corporate reports, profiles, and interviews. The authors provide short explanations for each quote and use examples from Buffett's own business transactions whenever possible to illustrate his words at work. As Warren says: "You should invest in a business that even a fool can run, because someday a fool will." "No matter how great the talent or effort, some things just take time: You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant." "Our method is very simple. We just try to buy businesses with good-to-superb underlying economics run by honest and able people and buy them at sensible prices. That's all I'm trying to do." The Tao of Warren Buffett inspires, amuses, sharpens the mind, and offers priceless investment savvy that anyone can take to the bank. This irresistibly browsable and entertaining book is destined to become a classic.

How to Use Financial Statements: A Guide to Understanding the Numbers

How to Use Financial Statements: A Guide to Understanding the Numbers
Author: James Bandler
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
Total Pages: 164
Release: 1994
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780786301973

Includes an overview of financial statements, an introduction to the accrual concept, explanations of profit and loss, cash flows and balance sheets, and an overview of special inventory valuation and depreciation reporting.

Warren Buffett and the Art of Stock Arbitrage

Warren Buffett and the Art of Stock Arbitrage
Author: Mary Buffett
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2011-01-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0857201956

Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. Teach him to arbitrage, and he will eat for a lifetime' Warren Buffett Warren Buffett and the Art of the Stock Arbitrageis the first book to explore the secret world of Buffett's arbitrage and special situations investing. Long considered one of the most powerful and profitable of Buffett's investment operations, but the least understood, these special types of investments have been the edge that has made Warren Buffett the world's greatest investor. This book examines Buffett's special brand of arbitrage investing,which involves taking advantage of short term price discrepancies that often occur when one company offers to buy another companyary Buffett and David Clark, the authors of four best-selling books on Warren Buffett's investment methods, take the reader deep into the world of Buffett's arbitrage and special situation operations, giving us his strategies, his equations for determining value, and dozens of examples of his investments in this very lucrative segment of Buffett's investment operations. They offer detailed analysis and explanations of Buffett's arbitrage and special situations operations and techniques for the first time ever.

Financial Statement Analysis

Financial Statement Analysis
Author: Andrew P. C.
Publisher:
Total Pages: 107
Release: 2017-04-29
Genre: Corporations
ISBN: 9781520985008

Ever wonder why the world's best investors are so successful? It's because they employ basic financial statement analysis skills to root out great opportunities.Warren Buffett, David Einhorn, and Jim Chanos have made billions throughout their careers by simply reading financial statements. Many investing books only teach basic financial ratios. However, that's only a small fraction of the analytical process.Most investors don't take the time (or don't know how) to read through footnotes or comb through Proxy filings. Financial Statement Analysis: The Blueprint for Investing Success teaches investors how to really read SEC filings. We break through the barrier to teach ordinary people how to analyze stocks with simple explanations.Get real life examples and walk through filings together. Learn how to read through 10-Ks and 10-Qs like the pros and increase your investment success rate.Learn the process that all the great investors use. Key topics covered include: *The mechanics of financial statements (balance sheets, income statements, and statements of cash flows). *Key financial ratios to evaluate profitability, returns, leverage, and efficiency. *Valuation methodologies to assess how cheap or expensive stocks are. *How to read key SEC filings (10-K, 10-Q, 8-K, Proxy Statements, Form 4s, etc.) *Understand key performance indicators (same store sales, organic growth, backlog/orders, etc.)*Learn how to dig through filings to get key information and get that extra edge!