Accounting Quote by Charlie Munger

“People are accustomed to thinking of accounting as dry and boring, a necessary evil used primarily to prepare financial reports and survive audits, but…

— Eric Ries

I would argue that a majority of the horrors we face would not have happened if the accounting profession developed and enforced better accounting.

— Charlie Munger

Creative accounting is an absolute curse to a civilization. One could argue that double-entry bookkeeping was one of history's great advances. Using accounting for…

— Charlie Munger

I suppose that the scope and implications of such forces have rendered my personal accounting ritual pretty much obsolete. That's how things sometimes go.

— Brian Ferneyhough

People don't pay attention. And then one day there's an accounting. And after that, nothing is the same.

— Cormac McCarthy

There is always something for which there is no accounting. Take, for example, the whole world.

— Leonard Michaels

There is nothing wrong with good accounting, except that it does not necessarily lead to good science.

— Gerhard Herzberg

Without market prices for capital goods, accounting is not possible. You don't know if you are making money or losing money, saving resources or…

— Llewellyn Rockwell

We have the most crude accounting tools. It's tragic because our accounts and our national arithmetic doesn't tell us the things that we need…

— Susan George

The word accounting comes from the word accountability. If you are going to be rich, you need to be accountable for your money.

— Robert Kiyosaki

“As the economist Herman Daly once put it: “The current national accounting system treats the earth as a business in liquidation.”

— Bill Bryson

I think in a couple of weeks, the question of all these bad write-offs will be behind us because everybody is going to throw…

— Muriel Siebert