To: Professor Hostetler
From: Vy Pham
Subject: Warren Buffett’s Annual Report
In the annual report of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., Warren Buffett created a website in which include the reports of every year with their 1st quarter, 2nd quarter, 3rd quarter, and annual. You can see them by clicking on what year you want to see. It will be opened in the next screen with the PDF file. The first thing you see is the table of contents which show the details and the pages to find them. In every report, he listed very carefully business activities, financial reporting, financial statement, operating companies, etc… He used short paragraphs with simple words so that the readers can understand easily. He also included numbers to show details of every report.
In conclusion, Warren Buffett’s communication style helps to make him such a successful businessman because of his easily understanding skills. He discussed directly in his reports, and used simple words and numbers to make his reports more details and clear.