Accounting Quote by Charlie Munger

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

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

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

“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

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

— Leonard Michaels

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

— Cormac McCarthy

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

The stupid and dishonest accountants allowed the genie of totally inappropriate accounting to descend on derivatives books. And once this has happened - people…

— Charlie Munger

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

— Gerhard Herzberg

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

Aggressive accounting does not mean illegal accounting.

— Kenneth Lay

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