According to the Robert Hagstrom, the book author of “The Warren Buffett Way”, he discussed that the involvement of four tenets while Buffet making investment decision in his employment. These four principles serve as guidance for his choices for most of the investment he made. The four of them includes business tenets, management tenets, financial tenets and market tenets.
1.5.1 Business Tenets Questions as such “Is the business simple and understandable?”, “Does the business have a consistent operating history?”, “Does the business have a favorable long-term prospects?” and many more are being brainstormed before investment decision is made. This is to ensure that oneself who is interested into investing …show more content…
According to Voisin, F. (2014), who is an analysis of potential value investment opportunities states that candid management refers to where the managers are providing the as much information as required by securities law and GAAP. These information is essential and crucial for analyzing a company. In Buffett’s theory, the ideal business manager is the one who reported the genuine financial performance openly and at the same time are able to admit the mistakes done publicly. It is because if the mistakes are being covered up and corrected internally, it will mislead the public as well as themselves in the organization itself. Thus, investors are more interested in investing in the business managed by honest managers who provide useful information that enable them to analyze the …show more content…
The net cash flows are the owner’s earnings of the company over a long period of time. Therefore, by calculating the business value in this way, investors can make a comparison of the difference in business enterprises in such a sensible way. Even if the business is growing rapidly but with unknown future revenues, the company is said to be non-understandable and the formula for this approach cannot be used. This is due to the fact that the discounted cash-flows approach is conventional as long as an appropriate discount rate is