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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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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Suggested Questions 1. What is the possible meaning of the changes in stock price for Berkshire Hathaway and Scottish Power plc on the day of the acquisition announcement? Specifically‚ what does the $2.55 billion gain in Berkshire’s market value of equity imply about the intrinsic value of PacifiCorp? 2. Based on the multiples for comparable regulated utilities‚ what is the range of possible values for PacifiCorp? What questions might you have about this range? 3. Assess the bid for PacifiCorp
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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 the appearance of impropriety in business: The
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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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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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Introduction: Berkshire Hathaway is a holding company based in Omaha‚ Nebraska that oversees and manages a number of subsidiary companies. Warren Buffett is the chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway and one of the wealthiest men in the world. He is known as the “Sage of Omaha” for his remarkable savvy in the stock market. What does the company’s code of ethics say about the rights of its workers‚ shareholders‚ consumers‚ and suppliers? Berkshire Hathaway’s Code of Ethics covers directors‚ officers
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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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STRATEGY & TRANSFORMATION FINAL ESSAY Topic: When A Company Likely To Choose Related Diversification and When Is It Likely To Choose Unrelated Diversification? Introduction First of all‚ “corporate strategy is what makes the corporate whole add up to more than the sum of its business unit parts” (Porter‚ M. E.‚ 1987 cited in Mintzberg et al 2003‚ p.451). In this regard‚ corporate-level strategy is concerned with two related issues; “first one is what businesses a corporation should compete
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Diversification IBM a Fortune 500 company celebrated its 100th birthday this past June. IBM employs over 400‚000 employees and is considered to be a $100 billion dollar or more giant in e-business global marketing technology. With the inception of the computer‚ IBM’s core business was mainframe computers‚ which almost bought the company to its knees in bankruptcy. IBM looked at the PC as just a gadget and with any gadget over time would fade into oblivion. IBM would find out the hard way
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