Accounting Quote by Warren Buffett

You have to know accounting. It's the language of practical business life. It was a very useful thing to deliver to civilization. I've heard…

— Charlie Munger

The reaction of weak management to weak operations is often weak accounting.

— Warren Buffett

Managers and investors alike must understand that accounting numbers are the beginning, not the end, of business valuation.

— Warren Buffett

I hope to get my name out there more in the Spanish-language business side of the world.

— Julie Gonzalo

Another segment of society that has constructed a language of its own is business. ... [The businessman] is speaking a language that is familiar…

— E B White

I picked up business skills along the way, but there are things you learn at school like speaking the language of business so you…

— Shawne Merriman

When a Japanese manufacturer was asked by his North American counterpart, What is the best language in which to do business?" the man responded:…

— Anonymous

Net - the biggest word in the language of business.

— Herbert Newton Casson

You have to understand accounting and you have to understand the nuances of accounting. It's the language of business and it's an imperfect language,…

— Warren Buffett

In the long run managements stressing accounting appearance over economic substance usually achieve little of either.

— Warren Buffett

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

Managers thinking about accounting issues should never forget one of Abraham Lincoln's favorite riddles: How many legs does a dog have, if you call…

— Warren Buffett