Accounting Quote by Kenneth Lay

The U.S. government uses cash accounting. That is illegal for any enterprise of any size in America except for the U.S. government. Every for-profit…

— Jim Cooper

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

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

— Gerhard Herzberg

Accounting does not make corporate earnings or balance sheets more volatile. Accounting just increases the transparency of volatility in earnings.

— Diane Garnick

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

— Leonard Michaels

“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

Good profits simply are not inconsistent with good behavior.

— Warren Buffett

Without market prices for capital goods, accounting is not possible. You don't know if you are making money or losing money, saving resources or…

— Llewellyn Rockwell

I have a saying: the scandal isn't what's illegal, the scandal is what's legal.

— Michael Kinsley

Accounting is the language of business.

— Warren Buffett

In the business world, allegations of accounting irregularities is tantamount to yelling fire in a crowded theater, except, today, in our Internet world, instead…

— Jeffrey Skilling

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