Accounting Quotes

The Social Sciences are good at accounting for disasters once they have taken place.

Accounting incomes were reduced by discrepancy [ but] "the net amount paid by lawyers for lawyerly discrepancy is close to zippo. In this case, the goddess of justice was blind.

Anyone with an engineering frame of mind will look at [accounting standards] and want to throw up.

To say accounting for derivatives is Americais a sewer is an insult to sewage.

Political elections are a good deal like marriages, there's no accounting for anyone's taste.

I worked in accounting for two and a half years, realized that wasn't what I wanted to do with the rest of my life, and decided I was just going to give comedy a try.

I think in a couple of weeks, the question of all these bad write-offs will be behind us because everybody is going to throw in the towel on bad accounting.

Unfortunately, WorldCom is not the only company caught up in this kind of accounting scandal. The impact this will have on the general public is yet to be seen.

For a hot-shot CEO taking over a troubled company, mass firings are the ultimate quick fix, the accounting equivalent of crack: cheap, easy to score, instantly gratifying, and highly addictive.

There are only two things as complicated as insurance accounting and I have no idea what they are.

There is always something for which there is no accounting. Take, for example, the whole world.

When a manufacturing engineer is hired to create new products but insists on sharing his "wisdom" in accounting with the company controller, he is not going to last long in that company.

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

People don't pay attention. And then one day there's an accounting. And after that, nothing is the same.

history, like nature, has its own economy, its own balancing of forces in the final accounting. Nothing can be lost, except to awareness.

There’s no accounting for the mysteries of the human heart

There is no accounting for human beings.

The U.S. tax code was written by A students. Every April 15 we have to pay somebody who got an A in accounting to keep ourselves from being sent to jail.

Each generation makes it's own accounting to its children.

What is meat for one is not for another--no accounting for fancy.

Dark, subtle, complex, wicked - if only Hollywood movies were half as interesting as Hollywood accounting.

And when the chickens that didn't hatch come home to roost, we will rue the day when, misled by sloppy accounting and rosy scenarios, we gave away the national nest egg.

We have a remarkably complete picture in many ways - and it could be that we're not accounting for something that's almost three-quarters of the entire universe

I don't know about technology and I don't know about finance and accounting.

Never measure literature by accounting statistics. A quarter of working authors earn less than $1,000.

Andre Tippett was an impact player who consistently played at a level that set him apart. Accounting for him limited what an offense could do. He made quarterbacks nervous.and rightly so.

If you do any thriller or horror movie a big part of the process is accounting for the cell phone.

The only accounting we had of the origins and the structure of nature was Biblical Genesis.

I, who am king of the matter I treat, and who owe an accounting for it to no one, do not for all that believe myself in all I write. I often hazard sallies of my mind which I mistrust.

Law is par excellence the thing that wants a reason. Now the only possible way of accounting for the laws of nature, and for uniformity in general, is to suppose them results of evolution.

Nature is an expert in cost-benefit analysis,' she says. 'Although she does her accounting a little differently. As for debts, she always collects in the long run.

There is no accounting for tastes, as the woman said when someone told her her son was wanted by the police.

Another thing he told his customers was that one of the great accounting unknowns of the modern age was how to value knowledge. It was an exciting field.

Happiness is.. Starting your study with 3 principles of accounting, then your profession, with 3 principles of life.. CHALLENGE it, ACHIEVE it, Loop it. Happy to be a CA, Happy CA day.

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

Don't ever let your business get ahead of the financial side of your business. Accounting, accounting, accounting. Know your numbers.

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

Knowing that you don't let any day pass you by without having something creative and productive to account for it, is truly such a priceless feeling.

A firm's income statement may be, likened to a bikini-what it reveals is interesting but what it conceals is vital.