Accounting Quote by Jeffrey Skilling

Unfortunately, WorldCom is not the only company caught up in this kind of accounting scandal. The impact this will have on the general public…

— Bennie Thompson

Computers are not accountable. People are.

— George Richard Marek

“Corporate governments have a long and established history of not prosecuting government officials that have been involved in blatant frauds.”

— Steven Magee

There is no company - no corporation on earth that engages in accounting fraud to the extent the Imperial Federal Government of the United…

— Neal Boortz

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

— Cormac McCarthy

Over the years, Charlie [Munger, Berkshire Hathaway Vice Chairman] and I have observed many accounting-based frauds of staggering size. Few of the perpetrators have…

— Warren Buffett

Fraud makes the world go round.

— John Updike

“Late in his life, the economist John Kenneth Galbraith coined the term “innocent fraud.” He used it to describe a lie or a half-truth…

— Nicholas Carr

“It’s just an avenue for creative accounting. But it would seem they do have at least one enforcer on-site.”

— Andy Weir

“Law enforcement are the facilitators of corporate fraud.”

— Steven Magee

It would be one of the most irritating experiences in the world to do a lot of work to uncover a fraud and then…

— Charlie Munger

“The banking industry, corporate life, the mass media, religious ministries, athletics, law schools: Each has its scandals. In nearly every case the pattern is…

— Charles J. Chaput