Warren Buffett and the Interpretation of Financial Statements: The Search for the Company with a Durable Competitive Advantage
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TitleWarren Buffett and the Interpretation of Financial Statements: The Search for the Company with a Durable Competitive Advantage
ISBN1416573186
Author(s)Mary Buffett, David Clark
Release Date2008-10-14
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2 Star Rating  "Good info but..."2009-08-17
- Reviewed By User: AQHJCBY5BEFPH
I was expecting a sober (not boring, just sober) explanation of the key line items that Buffett looks at first when interpreting financial statements. I was expecting the author to talk to me like an adult. Instead, because of the saccharine and pandering writing style of the author, I felt like I was reading "Dr. Seuss Goes To Wall Street" (with apologies to Dr. Seuss).

For example:

-"...when a company owns a piece of a consumer's mind, it never has to change its products, which, as you will find out, is a good thing." (Really? Never having to change your product is a good thing? Hold on, let me write that down...)

-"Financial statements are where Warren mines for companies with the golden durable competitive advantage. It is the company's financial statements that tell him if he is looking at a mediocre business forever moored to poor results or a company that has a durable competitive advantage that is going to make him superrich." I included this because she uses the word "golden" like it's about to go out of style. That and "superrich". And what is the purpose of lines such as "...that is going to make him superrich"? Unless you're addressing 3rd-graders, couldn't you just leave bits like that out?

-"...it is best if we spend the next few chapters going through (certain income statement entries) one by one, in true Warren fashion." She's overtly sycophantic, which reduces her credibility. It's one thing to be respectful of Mr. Buffett and his success, but the author crosses the line between respect and fawning and never looks back. Other examples are when she starts sentences with "Warren figured out..." or "Warren noticed...", "Warren knows that...", "Warren discovered..." etc. etc.

This book actually does have lots of great information concerning those key line items I was looking for, such as the link between gross profit margins and durable competitive advantage. It's just that I had to wade through 175 pages of the author's writing style in order to find it.
 
5 Star Rating  "Very good basic information"2009-08-12
- Reviewed By User: A38IZVTPUJEP40
As a professional investor, I found most of the information very basic; however, I thoroughly enjoyed this book. People tend to complicate things in life as well as in investing. Warren Buffett preaches investing in companies that possess moats and buying them when the price is reasonable. All this book is trying to do is to help investors assess a company's moat. No, this book alone will not assure investment success, but it adds another tool to the tool box that can help beginning or advanced investors successfully invest in the stock market.

- Mariusz Skonieczny, author of Why Are We So Clueless about the Stock Market? Learn how to invest your money, how to pick stocks, and how to make money in the stock market
 
5 Star Rating  "Warren Buffett and the Interpretation of Financial Statments"2009-03-07
- Reviewed By User: A2L2V6IHOIT9I8
Marry Buffett prior daughter-in-law of Warren Buffett and David Clark have done an excellent job of taking a complex subject and making it understandable, interesting and rewarding to study. Using these guidelines of instruction an indivdual could improve his/her ability to find companies to invest in even in these crushing economic times.
DFW
 
4 Star Rating  "A Good "Financial Statements for Dummies""2009-03-04
- Reviewed By romevi86
A very straightforward, simple and Buffett-centripetal guide into reading financial statements. As the title connotes, the books is all about reading financial statements according to Buffett's experiences, praises the man's riches, and explains to the readers why certain parts of financial statements were/are crucial to understanding Buffett's success.
This is no exhaustive or complex book for financial statements, but more of a beginner's guide, with Buffett's success being the source.

A good read for anyone delving into the understanding of financial statements.
 
3 Star Rating  "Uncertain"2009-01-27
- Reviewed By chrisb181
I have noticed that several of Warren's recent stock purchases go against almost everything explained in this book.
 
1 Star Rating  "Verbose, cloying cute, and just plain wrong"2009-01-21
- Reviewed By User: A3U7X1NKH9SXKB
Mary Buffett's fortuitous choice of a surname and gravy-training of her ex-father-in-law are her only qualifications for writing this dreadful excuse for a book.

The book is loaded with inaccuracies, the primary being this: she attempts to educate the reader by referring throughout the book to a fictional balance sheet, listing current assets, depreciation et al.

Here's the thing: her balance sheet DOESN'T BALANCE! The assets don't equal the liabilities plus the shareholder's equity. Anyone with even a rudimentary knowledge of accounting knows that that can't be.

Another gem is when she says that smart investors invest in companies with a natural near-monopoly, that essentially have a market to themselves. She then lists some companies that allegedly fit that criterion. The first two companies she lists are...wait for it...

Coke and Pepsi.
The classic textbook example of two rival companies that produce an almost identical product, and Mary Buffett lists each as her example of a company that has a market to itself.

The writing style is annoyingly redundant, patronizing and just flat-out wrong. It's amazing that it took two "writers" to put together such a rotten book. You're better off buying nothing.
 
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