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Berkshire Hathaway Inc – ‘10-Q’ for 9/30/18 – ‘EX-101.PRE’

On:  Monday, 11/5/18, at 6:09am ET   ·   For:  9/30/18   ·   Accession #:  1193125-18-317734   ·   File #:  1-14905

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  As Of               Filer                 Filing    For·On·As Docs:Size             Issuer                      Filing Agent

11/05/18  Berkshire Hathaway Inc            10-Q        9/30/18  113:8.9M                                   Donnelley … Solutions/FA

Quarterly Report   —   Form 10-Q   —   Sect. 13 / 15(d) – SEA’34
Filing Table of Contents

Document/Exhibit                   Description                      Pages   Size 

 1: 10-Q        Quarterly Report                                    HTML    821K 
 7: EX-95       Mine-Safety Disclosure                              HTML     62K 
 2: EX-12       Statement re: Computation of Ratios                 HTML     46K 
 3: EX-31.1     Certification -- §302 - SOA'02                      HTML     35K 
 4: EX-31.2     Certification -- §302 - SOA'02                      HTML     35K 
 5: EX-32.1     Certification -- §906 - SOA'02                      HTML     30K 
 6: EX-32.2     Certification -- §906 - SOA'02                      HTML     30K 
14: R1          Document and Entity Information                     HTML     58K 
15: R2          Consolidated Balance Sheets                         HTML    163K 
16: R3          Consolidated Balance Sheets (Parenthetical)         HTML     31K 
17: R4          Consolidated Statements of Earnings                 HTML    139K 
18: R5          Consolidated Statements of Earnings                 HTML     30K 
                (Parenthetical)                                                  
19: R6          Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income     HTML     81K 
20: R7          Consolidated Statements of Changes in               HTML     53K 
                Shareholders' Equity                                             
21: R8          Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows               HTML    142K 
22: R9          General                                             HTML     36K 
23: R10         New Accounting Pronouncements                       HTML     52K 
24: R11         Revenues from contracts with customers              HTML    111K 
25: R12         Investments in fixed maturity securities            HTML     57K 
26: R13         Investments in equity securities                    HTML     55K 
27: R14         Equity Method Investments                           HTML     47K 
28: R15         Income taxes                                        HTML     34K 
29: R16         Investment gains/losses                             HTML     49K 
30: R17         Receivables                                         HTML     44K 
31: R18         Inventories                                         HTML     38K 
32: R19         Property, plant and equipment and assets held for   HTML     68K 
                lease                                                            
33: R20         Goodwill and other intangible assets                HTML     51K 
34: R21         Derivative contracts                                HTML     49K 
35: R22         Supplemental cash flow information                  HTML     39K 
36: R23         Unpaid losses and loss adjustment expenses          HTML     50K 
37: R24         Retroactive reinsurance contracts                   HTML     53K 
38: R25         Notes payable and other borrowings                  HTML     61K 
39: R26         Fair value measurements                             HTML    101K 
40: R27         Common stock                                        HTML     47K 
41: R28         Accumulated other comprehensive income              HTML     63K 
42: R29         Contingencies and Subsequent Event                  HTML     34K 
43: R30         Business segment data                               HTML     77K 
44: R31         New Accounting Pronouncements (Policies)            HTML     51K 
45: R32         New Accounting Pronouncements (Tables)              HTML     41K 
46: R33         Revenues from contracts with customers (Tables)     HTML    100K 
47: R34         Investments in fixed maturity securities (Tables)   HTML     58K 
48: R35         Investments in equity securities (Tables)           HTML     54K 
49: R36         Equity Method Investments (Tables)                  HTML     41K 
50: R37         Investment gains/losses (Tables)                    HTML     46K 
51: R38         Receivables (Tables)                                HTML     45K 
52: R39         Inventories (Tables)                                HTML     39K 
53: R40         Property, plant and equipment and assets held for   HTML     71K 
                lease (Tables)                                                   
54: R41         Goodwill and other intangible assets (Tables)       HTML     53K 
55: R42         Derivative contracts (Tables)                       HTML     43K 
56: R43         Supplemental cash flow information (Tables)         HTML     38K 
57: R44         Unpaid losses and loss adjustment expenses          HTML     49K 
                (Tables)                                                         
58: R45         Retroactive reinsurance contracts (Tables)          HTML     48K 
59: R46         Notes payable and other borrowings (Tables)         HTML     55K 
60: R47         Fair value measurements (Tables)                    HTML     95K 
61: R48         Common stock (Tables)                               HTML     50K 
62: R49         Accumulated other comprehensive income (Tables)     HTML     63K 
63: R50         Business segment data (Tables)                      HTML     78K 
64: R51         Summary of effects of initial adoption of ASU       HTML     62K 
                2016-01, ASU 2018-02 and ASC 606 (Detail)                        
65: R52         New Accounting Pronouncements - Narrative (Detail)  HTML     51K 
66: R53         Revenues from contracts with customers - Narrative  HTML     41K 
                (Detail)                                                         
67: R54         Revenue from contracts with customers               HTML    109K 
                disaggregated by reportable segment and source of                
                revenue (Detail)                                                 
68: R55         Revenue from contracts with customers transaction   HTML     46K 
                price allocated to remaining performance                         
                obligations (Detail)                                             
69: R56         Investments in fixed maturity securities (Detail)   HTML     56K 
70: R57         Investments in fixed maturity securities -          HTML     34K 
                Narrative (Detail)                                               
71: R58         Investments in fixed maturity securities -          HTML     61K 
                Amortized cost and estimated fair value of                       
                securities with fixed maturities (Detail)                        
72: R59         Investments in equity securities (Detail)           HTML     46K 
73: R60         Investments in equity securities (Parenthetical)    HTML     53K 
                (Detail)                                                         
74: R61         Investments in equity securities - Fair value by    HTML     42K 
                segment (Detail)                                                 
75: R62         Equity Method Investments - Narrative (Detail)      HTML    109K 
76: R63         Equity Method Investments - Consolidated financial  HTML     45K 
                information (Detail)                                             
77: R64         Income taxes - Narrative (Detail)                   HTML     39K 
78: R65         Summary of investment gains and losses (Detail)     HTML     51K 
79: R66         Investment gains/losses - Narrative (Detail)        HTML     33K 
80: R67         Receivables (Detail)                                HTML     63K 
81: R68         Receivables - Narrative (Detail)                    HTML     42K 
82: R69         Inventories (Detail)                                HTML     42K 
83: R70         Property, plant and equipment and assets held for   HTML     51K 
                lease - Narrative (Detail)                                       
84: R71         Property, plant and equipment and assets held for   HTML     85K 
                lease (Detail)                                                   
85: R72         Property, plant and equipment and assets held for   HTML     39K 
                lease - Depreciation expense (Detail)                            
86: R73         Goodwill and other intangible assets - Goodwill     HTML     38K 
                (Detail)                                                         
87: R74         Goodwill and other intangible assets - Intangible   HTML     49K 
                assets (Detail)                                                  
88: R75         Goodwill and other intangible assets - Intangible   HTML     35K 
                assets - Narrative (Detail)                                      
89: R76         Derivative contracts (Detail)                       HTML     41K 
90: R77         Derivative contracts - Gains and losses (Detail)    HTML     37K 
91: R78         Derivative contracts - Narrative (Detail)           HTML     66K 
92: R79         Supplemental cash flow information (Detail)         HTML     46K 
93: R80         Unpaid losses and loss adjustment expenses -        HTML     61K 
                Reconciliation of changes in claim liabilities                   
                (Detail)                                                         
94: R81         Unpaid losses and loss adjustment expenses -        HTML     41K 
                Narrative (Detail)                                               
95: R82         Retroactive reinsurance contracts - Reconciliation  HTML     54K 
                of changes in claim liabilities and deferred                     
                charge assets (Detail)                                           
96: R83         Retroactive reinsurance contracts - Narrative       HTML     68K 
                (Detail)                                                         
97: R84         Notes payable and other borrowings (Detail)         HTML     94K 
98: R85         Notes payable and other borrowings - Narrative      HTML     72K 
                (Detail)                                                         
99: R86         Notes payable and other borrowings - Credit         HTML     42K 
                agreements - Narrative (Detail)                                  
100: R87         Fair value measurements - Financial assets and      HTML    182K  
                liabilities (Detail)                                             
101: R88         Fair value measurements - Significant unobservable  HTML     59K  
                inputs (Detail)                                                  
102: R89         Fair value measurements - Other information         HTML     44K  
                (Detail)                                                         
103: R90         Common stock - Narrative (Detail)                   HTML     57K  
104: R91         Common stock (Detail)                               HTML     48K  
105: R92         Common stock (Parenthetical) (Detail)               HTML     37K  
106: R93         Accumulated other comprehensive income (Detail)     HTML     60K  
107: R94         Accumulated other comprehensive income -            HTML     50K  
                Reclassified Amounts (Detail)                                    
108: R95         Contingencies and Subsequent Event - Narrative      HTML     45K  
                (Detail)                                                         
109: R96         Business segment data - Revenues by segment         HTML     74K  
                (Detail)                                                         
110: R97         Business segment data - Earnings before income      HTML     80K  
                taxes by segment (Detail)                                        
112: XML         IDEA XML File -- Filing Summary                      XML    213K  
111: EXCEL       IDEA Workbook of Financial Reports                  XLSX    116K  
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10: EX-101.CAL  XBRL Calculations -- brka-20180930_cal               XML    315K 
11: EX-101.DEF  XBRL Definitions -- brka-20180930_def                XML   1.24M 
12: EX-101.LAB  XBRL Labels -- brka-20180930_lab                     XML   1.64M 
13: EX-101.PRE  XBRL Presentations -- brka-20180930_pre              XML   1.46M 
 9: EX-101.SCH  XBRL Schema -- brka-20180930                         XSD    256K 
113: ZIP         XBRL Zipped Folder -- 0001193125-18-317734-xbrl      Zip    244K

‘EX-101.PRE’   —   XBRL Presentations — brka-20180930_pre

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