Accounting Quote by Warren Buffett

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

— Diane Garnick

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

Try to buy assets at a discount than to buy earnings.

— Walter Schloss

Cost Accounting is enemy number one of productivity.

— Eliyahu M. Goldratt

Focus on return on equity, not earnings per share.

— Warren Buffett

When individual enterprise is free and unhampered, profit-and-loss calculations set precise limits to a businessman's temptations to expand his services... a government valuable they…

— Hans F. Sennholz

No man divulges his revenue, or at least which way it comes in: but every one publishes his acquisitions.

— Michel de Montaigne

One has to know more about a company if one buys earnings.

— Walter Schloss

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

When it comes to valuation, there's only one thing stock investors really care about, which is earnings.

— James B. Stewart

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

— Alex Berenson

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