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Buffett

3 essays on this topic.

2 July 2026
Buffett on the fortress balance sheet
Most CFOs are trained to make the balance sheet efficient. Buffett spent his career arguing the opposite — that its first job is to be unkillable, and that the reward for building it that way is the freedom to act when no one else can…
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25 June 2026
Ask Warren: Should we buy back stock at this multiple?
The question CFOs get asked at almost every Q4 board now: what are we doing about the buyback? Buffett's 2011 and 2016 letters give the hard answer most boardroom conversations skip…
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18 June 2026
Buffett on capital allocation
For forty years Warren Buffett has been making the same quiet argument about the CFO function. Most CFOs still haven't fully internalised it — and the cost of not internalising it compounds…
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