Accountants Quote by Kofi Annan

[Professional accountants ] should be encouraging companies to enhance their green credentials by switching to renewables, and to respect core labor standards and human rights.

— Kofi Annan

It is well known that you can only manage what you measure, and as this is the job of professional accountants, it means they…

— Kofi Annan

Including the value of natural resources and our social capital in national accounting is a vital step to achieve economic growth that is equitable…

— Achim Steiner

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

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

“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 never get the accountants in before I start up a business. It's done on gut feeling, especially if I can see that they…

— Richard Branson

Accountants are in the past, managers are in the present, and leaders are in the future.

— Paul Orfalea

You can't be the accountant in your accounting firm. You can't cut the grass in your landscaping business. You can't work on the vehicles…

— Michael Gerber

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

— Gerhard Herzberg

“As the economist Herman Daly once put it: “The current national accounting system treats the earth as a business in liquidation.”

— Bill Bryson

Accounting rules give financial institutions flexibility about when they choose to recognize venture capital profits.

— Alex Berenson