Accounting Quote by Charlie Munger

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

If you want to fight the evil you see in finance and industry, get to work reading the corporate filings, see if there has…

— Ben Stein

I have to say accounting almost killed me.

— Venus Williams

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

— Gerhard Herzberg

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

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

“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 have very little respect for the integrity of the trading on the exchange in most stocks. And I have particular disdain for the…

— Steve Wynn

We will cooperate fully with the SEC and look forward to the opportunity to put any concern about these transactions to rest.

— Kenneth Lay

Despite its heightened duty, at times the SEC has been inattentive to economic analysis.

— Eugene Scalia

Mark-to-market accounting is like crack. Don't do it.

— Andrew Fastow

I don't mean to sugarcoat the figure on restatements, but I think it is positive - it shows a healthy system. The general impression…

— Steve Odland