Accounting Quotes

Accounting Quote of the day

Accounting is the language of business.

The word accounting comes from the word accountability. If you are going to be rich, you need to be accountable for your money.

Mathematics is less related to accounting than it is to philosophy.

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

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

My philosophy is not a bean-counting, accounting 'look at this.' It is a philosophy that smaller government is better government, and government that is closer to the people is best of all.

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

If you want an accounting of your worth, count your friends.

Creativity is great-but not in accounting.

There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

Destiny gave me only two things: a few accounting books and the gift of dreaming.

I don't really care about money. I find money boring and accounting boring, so I'm probably not going to ever make a lot of money.

And just remember, every dollar we spend on outsourcing is spent on U.S. goods or invested back in the U.S. market. That's accounting.

To be successful, you should concentrate on the world of companies, not arcane accounting mathematics.

I was never a Certified Public Accountant. I just had a degree in accounting. It would require passing a test, which I would not have been able to do.

Cost Accounting is enemy number one of productivity.

I've met them down in the Cost and Accounting Department, clean-shaven and in white collars. They can't see a damn thing ridiculous about themselves... only about you.

In the corporate world, sometimes things aren't exactly black and white when it comes to accounting procedures.

Life as we know it, with all its ups and downs, will soon be over. We all will give an accounting to God of how we have lived.

I have to say accounting almost killed me.

Derivatives serve practically no purpose except to enrich bankers through opaque pricing and to deceive investors through off-the-balance-sheet accounting.

I don't know technology and engineering. I don't know accounting.

On a personal level, as a Christian, it will not be Barbra Streisand I'm standing in front of when I have to make an accounting of my life.

In engineering, people have a big margin of safety. But in the financial world, people don't give a damn about safety. They let it balloon and balloon and balloon. It's aided by false accounting.

Elections are a good deal like marriages. There's no accounting for anyone's taste. Every time we see a bridegroom we wonder why she ever picked him, and it's the same with public officials.

There's no accounting for laws. Or the changes wrought by men and time.

Aggressive accounting does not mean illegal accounting.

Mark-to-market accounting is like crack. Don't do it.

There is no accounting for tastes.

Proper accounting is like engineering. You need a margin of safety. Thank God we don't design bridges and airplanes the way we do accounting.

Between a tyrant and a prince there is this single or chief difference, that the latter obeys the law and rules the people by its dictates, accounting himself as but their servant.

I would argue that a majority of the horrors we face would not have happened if the accounting profession developed and enforced better accounting.

Derivative trading with mark-to-market accounting degenerates into mark-to-model. Two firms make a big derivative trade and the accountants on both sides show a large profit from the same trade.

There is no business like show business. There is also no business like certified public accounting, but that doesn't rhyme as well.

There are no accounting issues, no trading issues, no reserve issues, no previously unknown problem issues.

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

I know what I don't know. To this day, I don't know technology, and I don't know finance or accounting.

... preliminary accounting, banking and surveying (known as arithmetic, algebra and geometry).

Balance Sheets are meaningless. Our accounting systems are still based on the assumption that 80% of costs are manual labor.

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

RICH, adj. Holding in trust and subject to an accounting the property of the indolent, the incompetent, the unthrifty, the envious and the luckless.

There are no new cash payments or obligations here. This is an accounting reflection of the deal they announced on Monday. It's all by the books.

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 to know.

There's just no accounting for happiness, or the way it turns up like a prodigal who comes back to the dust at your feet having squandered a fortune far away.

Accounting for the most part, remains a legalistic and traditional practice, almost immune to self-criticism by scientific methods.

Go is to Western chess what philosophy is to double-entry accounting.

There is a divergence between private and social accounting that the market fails to register. One essential task of law and government is to institute the necessary conditions.

If you look at the Forbes 400, they are paying a lower rate, accounting payroll taxes, than their secretary or - whomever around their office.

Maybe it wasn't anything remotely to do with religion, mysticism or metaphilosophy after all; maybe it was more banal; maybe it was just...accounting.

I suppose that the scope and implications of such forces have rendered my personal accounting ritual pretty much obsolete. That's how things sometimes go.