The Big Picture

JUNE 6, 2023

That led to the next three or four years of learning how to sell, how to create value, and not worry about selling out, but do it in a very ethical way. And they do that for 35 years tweaking numbers I go you won, you won the game. You know, a rich life, most people expect a money book to start with a chapter on budgets.

Accounting 130

Accounting Numbers Budgeting Financial Counseling 130

Brown Advisory

JUNE 16, 2022

We remain highly dubious of price-to-earnings ratios as a proxy for value given earnings can be distorted by “creative” accounting and the measure embeds a range of factors into a single number. Maths has a long half-life and a DCF correctly done accounts for inflation. We inherently prefer actual cash flow.

Investing 52

Investing Investments Valuation Accounting 52

Good Financial Cents

APRIL 19, 2023

The term “turnkey” means the numbers have been crunched, the home may have been rehabbed, and may already include tenants! Rental car agencies (Enterprise, Avis, Budget, etc.) The math when paying down debt is simple – if your loan is currently at 7% and you refinance at 3%, that’s equivalent to a 4% return on your money!

Accounting 105

Accounting Investing Investments Media 105

The Big Picture

MAY 2, 2023

RITHOLTZ: So wait, you’re, I’m trying to do the math, if you were 24 in ‘08, so you got this watch in 2000, 99? But there were a lot of other purveyors of watches that really were not super, super ethical folks. FOWLER: Yes, I was at LVMH for a number of years, mostly with Louis Vuitton for the first few years.

Retail 161

Retail Insurance Advertising Numbers 161

Brown Advisory

AUGUST 1, 2018

It doesn’t manage for quarter-to-quarter earnings, provide earnings guidance, or have budgets and strategic plans at the parent company, though some of the subsidiaries do. Buffett and Munger celebrate good business and investment practices, the potential for human achievement, high ethics and decency to one’s fellow man.

Assets 52

Assets Investing Investments Insurance 52

Brown Advisory

AUGUST 1, 2018

It doesn’t manage for quarter-to-quarter earnings, provide earnings guidance, or have budgets and strategic plans at the parent company, though some of the subsidiaries do. Buffett and Munger celebrate good business and investment practices, the potential for human achievement, high ethics and decency to one’s fellow man.

Assets 52

Assets Investing Investments Insurance 52