Accounting Quote by Charlie Munger

Anyone with an engineering frame of mind will look at [accounting standards] and want to throw up.

— Charlie Munger

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

— Gerhard Herzberg

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

— Leonard Michaels

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

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

— Bernard Ebbers

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

We always look at the margin of safety in the balance sheet and then worry about the business.

— Peter Cundill

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

“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

Don't ever let your business get ahead of the financial side of your business. Accounting, accounting, accounting. Know your numbers.

— Tilman J. Fertitta

I'm studying accounting to secure my future.

— Leah Williamson