Accounting Quote by Charlie Munger

Proper accounting is like engineering. You need a margin of safety. Thank God we don't design bridges and airplanes the way we do accounting.

— Charlie Munger

I don't know technology and engineering. I don't know accounting.

— Bernard Ebbers

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

I'm studying accounting to secure my future.

— Leah Williamson

Accounting is a big subject and there are huge forces in play. The entire momentum of existing thinking and existing custom is in a…

— 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

Balance Sheets are meaningless. Our accounting systems are still based on the assumption that 80% of costs are manual labor.

— Peter Drucker

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

— Bill Bryson

I was getting a degree in accounting, and I was going to go off and account. And as it worked out, I haven't accounted…

— Nick Nurse

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

— Gerhard Herzberg

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