巴菲特致股东的信（2004年）②各部门绩效

巴菲特致股东的信（2004年）②各部门绩效

Sector Results

各部门绩效

As managers, Charlie and I want to give our owners the financial information and commentary we would wish to receive if our roles were reversed. To do this with both clarity and reasonable brevity becomes more difficult as Berkshire’s scope widens. Some of our businesses have vastly different economic characteristics from others, which means that our consolidated statements, with their jumble of figures, make useful analysis almost impossible.

身为管理者，查理跟我设身处地的为大家着想，希望自己能够提供给各位所有重要的财务信息与看法，虽然随着伯克希尔的规模日益庞杂，要兼顾简洁与明了的困难度大大提高，因为我们有些产业的性质截然不同，这代表将所有数字混在一起的大杂烩，对于分析一点用处都没有。

On the following pages, therefore, we will present some balance sheet and earnings figures from our four major categories of businesses along with commentary about each. We particularly want you to understand the limited circumstances under which we will use debt, given that we typically shun it. We will not, however, inundate you with data that has no real value in estimating Berkshire’s intrinsic value. Doing so would tend to obfuscate the facts that count.

因此在接下来的报告中，我们将按产业别分类列示各产业的资产负债表、收益数字以及我们的看法，我必须让各位了解除非在极少数的情况下，我们尽量避免对外举债，同时我们也不会塞给你一大堆对于分析伯克希尔内在价值没有帮助的数字，因为这样做反而会模糊了焦点。

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