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Famous Accounting Quotes
Cost Accounting is enemy number one of productivity. – Eliyahu M. Goldratt
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. – William Wilberforce
Accounting is the language of business. – Warren Buffett
Accounting was the course that helped me more than anything. – Julian Robertson
Creativity is great-but not in accounting. – Charles Scott
Month end is approaching. Keep calm and carry on accounting. – Unknown
Aggressive accounting does not mean illegal accounting. – Kenneth Lay
Any difficult task seems easier if you break it down into manageable steps. – Unknown
There is no accounting for tastes. – Ann Radcliffe
A good accountant never makes mistakes. – Unknown
Life is like accounting; everything must be balanced. – Unknown
I have to say accounting almost killed me. – Venus Williams
If there was a tax difference, my accountants have paid everything off. – Unknown
The older I get, the more interesting I find lawyers and accountants. – Alex James
I am no weakling; I deal with accounting. – Unknown
Life is like a balance sheet.One wrong entry could change everything. – Unknown
If you want an accounting of your worth, count your friends. – Merry Browne
Happiness is debt=credit. – Unknown
To get qualified accountants, it’s extremely difficult. – Craig Scott
There’s no accounting for the mysteries of the human heart. – Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Accountants are dynamic, interesting, highly intelligent, hard-working individuals. – Alexa Loo
Only accountants can save the world – through peace, goodwill and reconciliations. – Unknown
There is nothing wrong with good accounting, except that it does not necessarily lead to good science. – Gerhard Herzberg
And he read Principles of Accounting all morning, but just to make it interesting, he put lots of dragons in it. – Terry Pratchett
Mathematics is less related to accounting than it is to philosophy. – Leonard Adleman
Accounting does not make corporate earnings or balance sheets more volatile. Accounting just increases the transparency of volatility in earnings. – Diane Garnick
People always ask me, ‘Were you funny as a child?’ Well, no, I was an accountant. – Ellen DeGeneres
There is always something for which there is no accounting. Take, for example, the whole world. – Unknown
Accounting for the most part, remains a legalistic and traditional practice, almost immune to self-criticism by scientific methods. – Kenneth E. Boulding
Destiny gave me only two things: a few accounting books and the gift of dreaming. – Fernando Pessoa
Never call an accountant a credit to his profession; A good accountant is debit to his profession. – Unknown
The word accounting comes from the word accountability. If you are going to be rich, you need to be accountable for your money. – Robert Kiyosaki
Capital isn’t this pile of money sitting somewhere; it’s an accounting construct. – Bethany McLean
In the long run managements stressing accounting appearance over economic substance usually achieve little of either. – Warren Buffett
In the corporate world, sometimes things aren`t exactly black and white when it comes to accounting procedures. – George W. Bush
People don’t pay attention. And then one day there’s an accounting. And after that, nothing is the same. – Unknown
Balanced budget requirements seem more likely to produce accounting ingenuity than genuinely balanced budgets. – Thomas Sowell
There are only two things as complicated as insurance accounting and I have no idea what they are. – Andrew Tobias
Balance Sheets are meaningless. Our accounting systems are still based on the assumption that 80% of costs are manual labor. – Peter Drucker
To be successful, you should concentrate on the world of companies, not arcane accounting mathematics. – Warren Buffett
To multiply the years and divide by the desire to live is a kind of false accounting. – Peter Heller
In the beginning God created man…and the costs followed afterwards. – Unknown
10 out of 9 accountants can’t count! – Unknown
Behind every good businessman there is a great accountant. – Unknown
Your own business growth and success depends on many things, and along that growing path, you are going to have to concede certain responsibilities and activities – whether for your accounting, your production, or day-to-day management. – Michael Gerber
And God said to accountants: Go forth and multiply. – Unknown
If my father had hugged me even once, I’d be an accountant right now. – Ray Romano
There are 3 types of accountant – those that can count and those that can’t. – Unknown
Don’t ever let your business get ahead of the financial side of your business. Accounting, accounting, accounting. Know your numbers. – Tilman J. Fertitta
Accounting does not make corporate earnings or balance sheets more volatile. Accounting just increases the transparency of volatility in earnings. – Diane Garnick
There’s no accounting for laws. Or the changes wrought by men and time. – James Crumley
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 it came to civilization through Venice which of course was once the great commercial power in the Mediterranean. However, double entry bookkeeping was a hell of an invention. – Charlie Munger
Accounting is a hot domain with the number of accounting majors up nationwide. I think the recent scandals have brought a new level of attention to the accounting profession as gatekeepers and custodians of social interest. – Paul Browne
Legacy accounting: Will you have been an asset or a liability on the world’s balance sheet? – Ryan Lilly
Mark-to-market accounting is like crack. Don’t do it. – Andrew Fastow
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, but unless you are willing to put in the effort to learn accounting – how to read and interpret financial statements – you really shouldn’t select stocks yourself. – Warren Buffett
It sounds extraordinary, but it’s a fact that balance sheets can make fascinating reading. – Mary Archer
Creative accounting is an absolute curse to a civilization. One could argue that double-entry bookkeeping was one of history’s great advances. Using accounting for fraud and folly is a disgrace. In a democracy, it often takes a scandal to trigger reform. Enron was the most obvious example of a business culture gone wrong in a long, long time. – Charlie Munger
Inspirational Accounting Quotes
Managers and investors alike must understand that accounting numbers are the beginning, not the end, of business valuation. – Warren Buffett
Accounting rules give financial institutions flexibility about when they choose to recognize venture capital profits. – Alex Berenson
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. – Charlie Munger
There’s no business-like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting. – David Letterman
Each generation makes its own accounting to its children. – Robert Kennedy
Accounting is a big subject and there are huge forces in play. The entire momentum of existing thinking and existing custom is in a direction that allows terrible follies to happen, and the terrible follies have terrible consequences. – Charlie Munger
Almost all decisions based on cost accounting are utterly wrong. – Eliyahu Goldratt
I was never a Certified Public Accountant… I just had a degree in accounting. The reason I was never a Certified Public Accountant was because it would require passing a test, which I would not have been able to do. – Bob Newhart
The scriptures make the danger of delay clear. It is that we may discover that we have run out of time. The God who gives us each day as a treasure will require an accounting. – Henry B. Eyring
The wildlife of today is not ours to do with as we please. The original stock was given to us in trust for the benefit both of the present and the future. We must render an accounting of this trust to those who come after us. – Theodore Roosevelt
What is meat for one is not for another–no accounting for fancy. – Abigail Adams
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. – Susan George
history, like nature, has its own economy, its own balancing of forces in the final accounting. Nothing can be lost, except to awareness. – Helen Foster Snow
Companies figured out that the easiest way to make money was to reissue records that the accounting department had paid for years ago and already made a profit. – Chris Cornell
With demands for special education or standardized test prep being shouted in their ears, public schools can’t always hear a parent when he says: ‘I want my child to be able to write contracts in Spanish,’ or, ‘I want my child to shake hands firmly,’ or, ‘I want my child to study statistics and accounting, not calculus. – Amity Shlaes
Don’t ever let your business get ahead of the financial side of your business. Accounting, accounting, accounting. Know your numbers. – Tilman J. Fertitta
You can’t be the accountant in your accounting firm. You can’t cut the grass in your landscaping business. You can’t work on the vehicles in your auto repair shop… And you really can’t spend all of your time managing those actions, either. – Michael Gerber
O Christian, whose chastened curiosity loveth things mysterious. Accounting them shadows and eclipses of Him,the one great light. – Martin Farquhar Tupper
This agency is out here in a sense to try to hold accountable a financial-services industry that ran wild, that brought our economy to the edge of collapse. – Elizabeth Warren
In many respects, this case appears to be eerily similar to the accounting hocus-pocus taht occured at Enron. – R.H. Tawney
Accounting noise: the current mess of confusing financial statements, created by a combination of excessive rules, and occasionally management manipulation. – Luke Johnson
Creative accounting refers to the presenting of financial information in such a way that it influences whoever peruses it toward a contrived conclusion and possibly hides some unwelcome facts. – Leo Bloom
The scriptures make the danger of delay clear. It is that we may discover that we have run out of time. The God who gives us each day as a treasure will require an accounting. – Henry B. Eyring
Accounting rules give financial institutions flexibility about when they choose to recognize venture capital profits. – Alex Berenson
Every generation inherits a world it never made; and, as it does so, it automatically becomes the trustee of that world for those who come after. In due course, each generation makes its own accounting to its children. – Robert Kennedy
Companies run by engineers don’t make money, but companies run by accountants don’t make anything at all. – Peter Krueger
False accounting is not growth; it is growth’s mirror image. – Morgen Witzel
