Accounting Quote by Peter Drucker

Business is many things, the least of which is the balance sheet. It is a fluid, ever changing, living thing, sometimes building to great…

— Harold Geneen

“An unprofitable company must not be doing work useful to society. Perhaps its products are lousy or maybe is badly run. In any case,…

— Toshihiko Yamashita

I've already written a section in the annual report for next year explaining why I think in one case that the figures on our…

— Warren Buffett

Though it is very easy to do valuations, eyeballs and brand prominence surveys, you should never allow any of them to influence the balance…

— Ashwin Sanghi

The fact is that one of the earliest lessons I learned in business was that balance sheets and income statements are fiction, cash flow…

— Chris Chocola

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

— Peter Cundill

“Legacy accounting: Will you have been an asset or a liability on the world's balance sheet?”

— Ryan Lilly

“To balance the balance sheet of life, concentrate on your assets of positivity while managing your liabilities of negativities.”

— Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma

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

— Diane Garnick

It is important that global business leaders understand that they need to think beyond their quarterly balance sheets and see what it is that…

— Jaggi Vasudev

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

Balanced budget requirements seem more likely to produce accounting ingenuity than genuinely balanced budgets.

— Thomas Sowell