Business segment data (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2011

Schedule of revenues, earnings before income taxes, capital expenditures, depreciation, goodwill and identifiable assets by segment

A disaggregation of our consolidated data for each of the three most recent years is presented in the tables which follow on this and the following two pages (in millions).


	Revenues							Earnings before income taxes
	2011			2010		2009		2011			2010			2009
Operating Businesses:
Insurance group:
Underwriting:
GEICO	$	15,363		$	14,283	$	13,576	$	576		$	1,117		$	649
General Re		5,816			5,693		5,829		144			452			477
Berkshire Hathaway Reinsurance Group		9,147			9,076		6,706		(714	)		176			250
Berkshire Hathaway Primary Group		1,749			1,697		1,773		242			268			84
Investment income		4,746			5,186		5,509		4,725			5,145			5,459

Total insurance group		36,821			35,935		33,393		4,973			7,158			6,919

BNSF ⁽¹⁾		19,548			15,059		—		4,741			3,611			—
Finance and financial products		4,014			4,264		4,301		774			689			653
Marmon		6,925			5,967		5,067		992			813			686
McLane Company		33,279			32,687		31,207		370			369			344
MidAmerican		11,291			11,305		11,443		1,659			1,539			1,528
Other businesses ⁽²⁾		32,202			27,956		25,391		3,675			3,092			1,028

		144,080			133,173		110,802		17,184			17,271			11,158

Reconciliation of segments to consolidated amount:
Investment and derivative gains/losses		(830	)		2,346		787		(830	)		2,346			787
Interest expense, not allocated to segments		—			—		—		(221	)		(208	)		(101	)
Eliminations and other		438			666		904		(819	)		(358	)		(292	)

	$	143,688		$	136,185	$	112,493	$	15,314		$	19,051		$	11,552

⁽¹⁾	From acquisition date of February 12, 2010.

⁽²⁾	Includes Lubrizol from the acquisition date of September 16, 2011.


	Capital expenditures						Depreciation of tangible assets
	2011		2010		2009		2011		2010		2009
Operating Businesses:
Insurance group	$	40	$	40	$	50	$	56	$	66	$	71
BNSF ⁽¹⁾		3,325		1,829		—		1,480		1,221		—
Finance and financial products		331		233		148		180		204		219
Marmon		514		307		436		484		507		521
McLane Company		188		166		172		129		129		120
MidAmerican		2,684		2,593		3,413		1,333		1,262		1,246
Other businesses ⁽²⁾		1,109		812		718		1,021		890		950

	$	8,191	$	5,980	$	4,937	$	4,683	$	4,279	$	3,127

⁽¹⁾	From acquisition date of February 12, 2010.

⁽²⁾	Includes Lubrizol from the acquisition date of September 16, 2011.


	Goodwill at year-end				Identifiable assets at year-end
	2011		2010		2011		2010		2009
Operating Businesses:
Insurance group:
GEICO	$	1,372	$	1,372	$	27,253	$	25,631	$	22,996
General Re		13,532		13,532		28,442		29,196		30,894
Berkshire Hathaway Reinsurance and Primary Groups		607		589		104,913		104,383		102,787

Total insurance group		15,511		15,493		160,608		159,210		156,677

BNSF		14,803		14,803		55,282		53,476		—
Finance and financial products		1,032		1,031		23,919		24,692		24,027
Marmon		727		709		10,597		10,047		9,768
McLane Company		155		155		4,107		4,018		3,505
MidAmerican		5,253		5,281		42,039		40,045		39,437
Other businesses *		15,732		11,534		34,994		24,144		22,888

	$	53,213	$	49,006		331,546		315,632		256,302


Reconciliation of segments to consolidated amount:
Corporate and other						7,888		7,591		6,845
Goodwill						53,213		49,006		33,972

					$	392,647	$	372,229	$	297,119

*	Includes Lubrizol, acquired in 2011.

Schedule of insurance premiums written by geographic region

Insurance premiums written by geographic region (based upon the domicile of the insured or reinsured) are summarized below. Dollars are in millions.


	Property/Casualty						Life/Health
	2011		2010		2009		2011		2010		2009
United States	$	22,253	$	21,539	$	19,280	$	3,100	$	3,210	$	1,095
Western Europe		4,495		3,377		5,236		880		945		761
All other		1,089		918		737		1,090		927		774

	$	27,837	$	25,834	$	25,253	$	5,070	$	5,082	$	2,630

Schedule of premiums written and earned

Premiums written and earned by the property/casualty and life/health insurance businesses are summarized below (in millions).


	Property/Casualty									Life/Health
	2011			2010			2009			2011			2010			2009
Premiums Written:
Direct	$	18,512		$	17,128		$	16,484		$	67		$	3		$	—
Assumed		9,867			9,171			9,321			5,133			5,203			2,727
Ceded		(542	)		(465	)		(552	)		(130	)		(124	)		(97	)

	$	27,837		$	25,834		$	25,253		$	5,070		$	5,082		$	2,630

Premiums Earned:
Direct	$	18,038		$	16,932		$	16,553		$	67		$	3		$	—
Assumed		9,523			9,266			9,284			5,099			5,208			2,723
Ceded		(522	)		(536	)		(579	)		(130	)		(124	)		(97	)

	$	27,039		$	25,662		$	25,258		$	5,036		$	5,087		$	2,626

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Tabular disclosure of the profit or loss and total assets for each reportable segment. An entity discloses certain information on each reportable segment if the amounts (a) are included in the measure of segment profit or loss reviewed by the chief operating decision maker or (b) are otherwise regularly provided to the chief operating decision maker, even if not included in that measure of segment profit or loss.

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