Introduction Warren E. Buffett‚ the chairperson of Berkshire Hathaway (BH)‚ is the world’s greatest investor of the current era. From 1965 to 2007‚ BH has compounded annual gain of 20.3% while S&P has 9.3% (Berkshire Hathaway Inc.‚ 2009). Most investors get normal returns and believe the market is in semi strong form. However Buffett believes the market is inefficient and acts on his own investment philosophy. This report will analysis BH’s acquisition of PacifiCorp‚ evaluate Buffett’s performance
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[pic] [pic] Berkshire Instruments Group No. 1 Alsim‚ Allan Patrick Belgica‚ Robie Escaño‚ Ergo Galang‚ Roberto Villanueva‚ Jill Borlong‚ Li (Michael) SPFINMAN / G05 Prof. Alan Jezrel Solomon‚ MBA 1. Determine the Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC) based on using retained earnings in the capital structure. In order to find the WACC‚ we need to find the cost of the components of the capital structure and their proportion in the total capital. Cost of Debt –
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Jordan Company Solution Jordan Company has two departments‚ X and Y. Overhead is applied based on direct labor cost in Department X and machine-hours in Department Y. The following additional information is available: Budgeted Amounts Direct labor cost Factory overhead Machine-hours Actual data for Job #10 Direct materials requisitioned Direct labor cost Machine-hours Department X $180‚000 $225‚000 51‚000 mh Department X $10‚000 $11‚000 5‚000 mh Department Y $165‚000 $180‚000 40‚000 mh Department
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accounts payable increased very much. And we can may be assume that there are also gains from the company’s activities. Thus‚ accounts receivable slightly increased‚ in parallel with the company’s activities we can also assume that company sales increased. Company is not in trouble with receivables. ANSWER 3: Retained Earnings didn’t increase by the amount of net income for the month because‚ Diane Maynard got a dividend of 11.700 USD which she then used to repay her loan. Thus Retained
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Lindsey SHR 247 Blackboard Assignment 2 Berkshire Hathaway Inc. is an American multinational conglomerate holding company‚ headquartered in Omaha‚ Nebraska‚ that oversees and manages a number of subsidiary companies. The company wholly owns Geico‚ BNSF‚ Lubrizol‚ Dairy Queen‚ Fruit of the Loom‚ Helzberg Diamonds‚ FlightSafety International‚ and Netjets. It also owns half of Heinz and has significant minority holdings in American Express‚ Coca-Cola Company‚ Wells Fargo‚ IBM‚ and Restaurant Brands
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Berkshire Hathaway Inc. – Executive Summary This team has been assigned to perform an executive summary of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (BHI). This company has been profitable for the last three fiscal years‚ and is on the U.S. Stock Exchange. This summary will contain information gathered from BHI’s most recent annual report. Using the company’s balance sheet‚ cash flow statement‚ and income statement (all three are attached following the references) 14 key areas will be addressed: 1. Company
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ASSIGNMENT-2 Different types of fasteners used in a bicycle MM-324 JOINING OF MATERIALS Name :- Muhammad Ayman zaheer Reg :- 2008155 2/20/2011 GHULAM ISHAQ KHAN INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING SCIENCES & TECHNOLOGY INTRODUCTION A bicycle is an engineering device that is used as a means of travelling.It is a single person operated vehicle or may be two or more could use it to operate it .In its assembly many different types of fasteners are used of different sizes and shapeswhich
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In May 2005 Warren Buffets’ Berkshire Hathaway’s subsidiary company MidAmerican Energy Holdings successfully took over the electrical utility company PacifiCorp. The company was purchased for $5.1 billion in cash plus debt assumption of $4.3 billion. The deal is the result of Buffet’s intense search‚ over several years to find an attractive acquisition. This case study evaluates the impact the acquisition has on the share price of both Berkshire Hathaway Ltd and Scottish Power. A valuation is conducted
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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 from his usual business model‚ but the outcome was the same‚ with having a stabilized cash-float. With the oil boom and increase in agriculture‚ and industrial shipments‚ this made BNSF a perfect financial asset for Mr. Berkshire Hathaway. What does Berkshire Hathaway’s purchase of BNSF Railroad say
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Carter Cleaning Company: Introduction Q.1. Jennifer asks that you make a list of five specific HR problems you think Carter Cleaning will have to grapple with. Answer: In my opinion‚ the carter Cleaning Company will have to face the following specific HR related problems. a) High Turnovers: One of the HR issues that the case deals with is high employees’ turnover rate. As mentioned in the case‚ the nature of job does not require higher skills and therefore most of the employees are unskilled. These
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