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    Berkshire Hathaway Inc. to: William Cochran from: subject: Pacificorp Acquistion analysis and recommendation date: The following memo analyzes MidAmerican’s potential acquisition of PacifiCorp. Contents included involve a financial analysis‚ qualitative analysis‚ valuation‚ and acquisition recommendation. After careful review‚ MidAmerican should acquire PacifiCorp at the current offering price of $9.4 billion ($5.1 billion in cash and $4.3 billion in attached liabilities and preferred

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    Berkshire Hathaway Business Analysis and Valuation April 2010 Vinod Palikala vpalika@hotmail.com Business Analysis and Valuation by Vinod Palikala Contents 1. 2. 3. Company Overview ............................................................................................................................... 3 Valuation Approach .............................................................................................................................. 4 Valuation ...............

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    BANKING ACADEMY OF VIETNAM BTEC HND IN BUSINESS (ACCOUNTING) ASSIGNMENT COVER SHEET NAME OF STUDENT Hoang Nang Le Minh REGISTRATION NO. F06 - 090 UNIT TITLE Unit 3: Organisations and Behaviour ASSIGNMENT TITLE Berkshire Hathaway ASSIGNMENT NO 1 of 2 NAME OF ASSESSOR Ms Le Thu Hanh SUBMISSION DEADLINE I‚ ___________Minh_______________ hereby confirm that this assignment is my own work and not copied or plagiarized from any source. I have referenced the sources from

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    Northern Santa Fe Railroad. This was a wise move for Mr. Buffett‚ which took a lot of research‚ and time‚ and knowing when to make an offer for BNSF‚ and what to offer. I feel that with age comes experience‚ and Mr. Buffet saw an opportunity and took it. BNSF was a solid investment‚ with real profit‚ cash flow and a very good future. Mr. Berkshire Hathaway’s business model was to buy large insurance companies that ensured a stabilized cash-float‚ but the purchase of BNSF may have seemed to differ

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    to the success of Berkshire Hathaway because Buffet’s five principles were the set of responses and patterns that Berkshire used to obtain their success. Buffet’s investment strategy‚ which consisted of five principles‚ can easily be observed throughout Berkshire Hathaway’s decision-making process. Buffet’s ability to evaluate a business while ignoring trends‚ making niche investments‚ and requiring key managers to be substantial stakeholders is the criteria that Berkshire Hathaway uses in their planning

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    For the purpose of this analysis‚ I will examine Berkshire Hathaway and its long standing CEO Warren Buffet. In some circles‚ the name Berkshire Hathaway and Warren Buffet himself are synonymous with ethics in business. In March 2011‚ the Wall Street Journal reported on the departure of Buffett’s long-standing lieutenant David Sokol‚ often thought to be the imminent successor after Buffett’s retirement (Ovide‚ 2011). As published in the article‚ Buffett made it clear how important it is to avoid

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    The Berkshire Hathaway Inc. code of ethics is a corporate code of ethics. I Chose corporate because it is a corporation‚ and was written by upper level management as a guideline for possible ethical issues among all involved in the company. This code is written at a currently attainable level‚ as it gives as it a rough guide to confront unethical behavior. This code covers all members‚ employees and officers. This level is appropriate because it creates the basis of moral and ethical standards for

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    Berkshire Hathaway “is a holding company that owns subsidiaries” like GEICO‚ Dairy Queen‚ Berkshire Hathaway Home Services‚ and Duracell (Berkshire Hathaway Energy SWOT Analysis‚ 2016). For generations Berkshire Hathaway‚ has engaged in” transmission‚ storage‚ distribution and supply of energy operating in the US‚ the UK and Canada” (Berkshire Hathaway Energy SWOT Analysis‚ 2016). Berkshire is incorporated in the State of Delaware‚ and its Corporate Headquarters is located at 3555 Farnam Street‚

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    Merger and Acquisition accounting in the UK and their effects to stock prices by Yan Shao 2006 A Dissertation presented in part consideration for the degree of MA in Finance and Investment Abstract There has been considerable controversy surrounding the accounting practices for mergers and acquisitions. The focus of this controversy has been on the differences in financial statements that arise under the two accounting methods: merger (pooling-ofinterests) (Add together the book

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    As many investors now say‚ it is getting harder to find value in choosing stocks and acquiring companies particularly successful ones. This is why in 2001 Warren Buffet said “We need elephants to make significant gains now-and they are hard to find” This is very similar to today’s valuations of companies that are now back to all-time highs so it is more difficult to find intrinsic value in a company. As Mr. Buffet many times has said there needs to be intricsic value when investing which he defines

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