Posted: May 21st, 2022

What is your companys’ principal business activity?(Berkshire Hathaway)

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Chose a publicly traded company and answer a series of questions on that company each week. The questions given will be related to the topics covered in classes of that week. My company is (Berkshire Hathaway)
Part 1 Essay Questions Berkshire Hathaway (Word Document)
Question 1: What is your companys’ principal business activity?
Question 2: Who is the CFO? What is his/her accounting background? Give as much detail here as you can find.
Question 3: Is your company managing any ethical issues presently? If so, how do their actions affect their financial performance going forward?
Question 4: Identify the last two years’ Revenue, Gross Profit, and EBIT for your company. Do all three totals increase from year to year? Decrease? Is there a mix? Explain what the trend is for your company and why.
Question 5: Does your company break down the data into geographic regions? If so, identify these regions/divisions. What region is performing the best and how do you know?
Question 6: What products and/or services does your company provide? Is there a mix of products that compliment each other? Explain.
Part 2 Excel worksheet Questions Berkshire Hathaway (Excel)
Question 1: Take a screenshot of the income statement of your company from the annual report. Paste this to an Excel worksheet and transfer the data to Excel exactly as you see it on the screeshot. Be sure to calcuate the sub cateogies that exist (Gross Profit, EBIT, Net Income, etc.).
Quesiton 2: Identify the costs/expenses (excluding interest and taxes) as either variable of fixed.
Question 3: Now calculate the variable cost per unit, you will have to find an estimate of the total products sold during the fiscal year.
Question 4: Using the account analysis method from Class, write the total cost function. (Example: Total Cost = Fixed Cost + Variable Cost Per Unit(x) ).
Remember one part is a essay in a document and the second part has to be done via an excell worksheet

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