Accounting Quotes

139 Accounting quotes by 114 unique authors

There is no company - no corporation on earth that engages in accounting fraud to the extent the Imperial Federal Government of the United Sates… — Neal Boortz
There are three cardinal rules - don't take somebody else's boyfriend unless you've been specifically invited to do so, don't take a drink without being… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Now, we are seeing many of these same companies face the truth about their financial standing. Congress is faced with the challenge of reforming our… — Bennie Thompson
Unfortunately, WorldCom is not the only company caught up in this kind of accounting scandal. The impact this will have on the general public is… — Bennie Thompson
In the business world, allegations of accounting irregularities is tantamount to yelling fire in a crowded theater, except, today, in our Internet world, instead of… — Jeffrey Skilling
The reaction of weak management to weak operations is often weak accounting. — Warren Buffett
While expanding market access for American industry, financial markets and farmers is critical, I believe it needs to be done responsibly, accounting for the treatment… — Mark Udall
Imagine for a moment if we once again knew, strictly as a matter of course, these few unremarkable things: What it is we're eating. Where… — Michael Pollan
There is always something for which there is no accounting. Take, for example, the whole world. — Leonard Michaels
I have been asked, politely and not so politely, why I am myself. This is an accounting any woman will be called on to give… — Andrea Dworkin
There's no accounting for laws. Or the changes wrought by men and time. — James Crumley
I think about photographs as being full, or empty. You picture something in a frame and it's got lots of accounting going on in it-stones… — Joel Meyerowitz
Each generation makes it's own accounting to its children. — Robert Kennedy
When death comes, we take off our clothes and gather everything we left behind: what is dark, broken, touched with shame. When Death demands we… — Linda Gregg
I've met them down in the Cost and Accounting Department, clean-shaven and in white collars. They can't see a damn thing ridiculous about themselves... only… — Jean Shepherd
I don't really care about money. I find money boring and accounting boring, so I'm probably not going to ever make a lot of money. — Juliana Hatfield
Go is to Western chess what philosophy is to double-entry accounting. — Trevanian
The American business man cannot consider his work done when he views the income balance in black at the end of an accounting period. It… — Unknown Author
When I hear health professionals suggesting that you shouldn't worry about the balance of calories in versus calories out, but rather eat clean and follow… — Chalene Johnson
We have a remarkably complete picture in many ways - and it could be that we're not accounting for something that's almost three-quarters of the… — Saul Perlmutter
I know what I don't know. To this day, I don't know technology, and I don't know finance or accounting. — Bernard Ebbers
Accounting consequences do not influence our operating or capital-allocation decisions. When acquisition costs are similar, we much prefer to purchase $2 of earnings that is… — Warren Buffett
Just as black anger often proved counterproductive, so have these white resentments distracted attention from the real culprits of the middle class squeeze - a… — Barack Obama
Creativity is great-but not in accounting. — Charles Scott
Another thing he told his customers was that one of the great accounting unknowns of the modern age was how to value knowledge. It was… — Jane Smiley

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