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Businesses are an important economic pipeline for the United States just as they are in other countries. The way a business tracks their finances and reports their profits effects the way the economy grows or shrinks because the money that a business makes is circulated through all walks of life. Companies like Enron, WorldCom, Freddie Mac and others who make bad business accounting decisions shake the economy at its foundation and destroy the lives of investors who help to make our economy whole. Business accounting is a way for firms to account for profits and losses they have sustained.

Executive level pay is based upon company performance. If the performance of a company is not reported in a proper manner, executives make money that far exceeds what the business is capable of and creates a false picture of a company’s performance. This false reporting causes the stock market to balloon by rewarding stock to companies who do not deserve it, and these methods have a bad effect on our economy. Business accounting that honor the GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Practices) creates a transparent persona, an air of trust and respect, from the users of their financial statements.

Many smaller businesses, especially those that are not publicly traded, do not use the GAAP for their business accounting methods because they do not see the need to disclose their financial statements. This decision allows for discrepancies and inaccuracies in financial reporting, and users of these financial statements should make it a point to ask whether companies are using GAAP in their business accounting. Maintaining the proper financial books is important to the structure of a business. Business accounting books provide a way to determine how to make businesses more profitable by increasing certain kinds of production or cutting costs to save money in the future.

The success of a business depends greatly on the ability to be fair in accounting practices and keeping proper books. Adhering to guidelines that ensure a business is being upfront about what they are reporting gives a business credibility and ensures that their gains are genuine. It is responsible to hire professionals that are capable of adhering to those GAAP guidelines instead of using short-cuts or cutting corners in business accounting practices because the attention to detail shows integrity. Both larger businesses and smaller businesses alike can offer financial statements that provide an appropriate picture of their profits and losses by following the GAAP.

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Buffett, although often tracked by the media, was never intrigued by any journalist or writer to trust his full life story. His truth is private, particularly by celebrity standards. In fact, while the unsophisticated persona that the public sees is accurate, yet Warren Buffett is a collection of contradictions. Although over time he became the world’s richest man, he never considered his investors as less than partners, while teaching honesty and integrity as an investor, CEO, board member, novelist, and spokesperson. However, despite his courtesy and humanity, despite being a mix of strengths and weaknesses, Buffett never before has decided to spend endless hours to respond to a writer’s inquiry, giving full access to his family, friends, and business associates, opening his records and recollecting childhood memories.

With Schroeder things took place smoothly. Being a highly perceptive insurance industry analyst and a gifted writer with a good judgment, Schroeder impressed Buffett with her investment writings and acute finance knowledge. But it was more than that. After meeting with the renowned Omaha investor, Schroeder came to realize that, actually, no one had been able to approach Buffett’s investing style before and explain his broader investment philosophy, which reflects his intricate personality and the details of his life. Her intuitive perception convinced Buffett to cooperate with her and allowed Schroeder exceptional access to explore directly with him and with his closest associates his work, beliefs, struggles, achievements, and wisdom. The brilliant result of this cooperation was “The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life”, the enlightening and complete biography of “The Oracle of Omaha.”

To my view, “The Snowball” reveals Buffett’s fortitude. Having grown up in a difficult family environment under the suppression of a verbally abusive mother, Buffett overcame any obstacle with integrity, allegiance, and sincerity and became the richest man in the world. Schroeder’s questions were nothing like softball and in fact, the book is written in such an intimate way that it feels like Buffett wrote the book himself. Being a fascinating and appealing figure, Warren Buffett presents in “The Snowball” all his principles and thoughts that have made millions of people rich around the globe. And although the size of the book could easily put off the reader, still Schroeder has done an excellent job with her insightful anticipation of financial crises, thorough knowledge of fiscal issues and stock market and serious approach to Buffett’s legacy.

All in all, “The Snowball” is a unique biography that covers a really broad territory and narrates the captivating story of the most intriguing American, and even international, success story of modern times. Moreover, it teaches the reader that there is still some quality in the business world from individuals such as Warren Buffett. And we should be totally grateful for what this man has offered to global society.

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