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| Disclaimer | |
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| The Art of Basic Buffettology | |
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| Before You Begin This Book | |
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| How to Use This Book | |
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| Roots | |
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| Investing from a Business Perspective | |
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| What Is Businesslike Investing? | |
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| Warren's View of Earnings | |
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| The Price You Pay Determines Your Rate of Return | |
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| The Corporation, Stocks, Bonds--a Few Useful Explanations | |
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| Valuing a Business | |
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| The Only Two Things You Need to Know About Business Perspective Investing: What to Buy--and at What Price | |
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| What We Can Learn from Warren's Secret Weapon: The Magic of Compounding | |
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| Determining What Kind of Business You Want to Own | |
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| The Theory of an Expanding Intrinsic Value | |
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| The Mediocre Business | |
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| How to Identify the Excellent Business-the Key to Warren's Good Fortune | |
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| Nine Questions to Help You Determine If a Business Is Truly an Excellent One | |
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| Where to Look for Excellent Businesses | |
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| More Ways to Find a Company You Want to Invest In | |
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| What You Need to Know About the Management of the Company You May Invest In | |
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| When a Downturn in a Company Can Be an Investment Opportunity | |
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| How Market Mechanics Whipsaw Stock Prices to Create Buying Opportunities | |
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| Inflation | |
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| Inflation and the Consumer Monopoly | |
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| A Few Words on Taxation | |
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| The Effects of Inflation and Taxation on the Rate of Return, and the Necessity to Obtain a 15% Return on Your Investment | |
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| The Myth of Diversifications Versus the Concentrated Portfolio | |
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| When Should You Sell Your Investments? | |
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| Warren's Different Kinds of Investments | |
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| Advanced Buffettology | |
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| The Analyst's Role in Ascertaining Earning Power | |
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| The Mathematical Tools | |
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| Test #1, to Determine at a Glance the Predictability of Earnings | |
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| Test #2, to Determine Your Initial Rate of Return | |
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| Test #3, to Determine the Per Share Growth Rate | |
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| Determining the Value of a Company Relative to Government Bonds | |
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| Understanding Warren's Preference for Companies with High Rates of Return on Equity | |
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| Determining the Projected Annual Compounding Rate of Return, Part I | |
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| Determining the Projected Annual Compounding Rate of Return, Part II | |
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| The Equity/Bond with an Expanding Coupon | |
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| Using the Per Share Earnings Annual Growth Rate to Project a Stock's Future Value | |
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| How a Company Can Increase Its Shareholders' Fortunes by Buying Back the Company's Stock | |
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| How to Determine If Per Share Earnings Are Increasing Because of Share Repurchases | |
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| How to Measure Management's Ability to Utilize Retained Earnigns | |
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| Short-Term Arbitrage Commitments | |
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| Bringing It All Together: The Case Studies | |
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| Gannett Corporation, 1994 | |
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| Federal Home Loan Mortrgage Corporation, 1992 | |
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| McDonald's Corporation, 1996 | |
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| How Warren Got Started: The Investment Vehicle | |
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| Fifty-four Companies to Look At | |
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| Waiting for the Perfect Pitch | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| Index | |