28 Quotes About Accountant


  • Author Anaestelle De La Vega
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    Working in accountancy has led Anaestelle De La Vega to pick a wide range of impressive skills. From her entry-level position as a staff accountant to her last role as Senior Director of Accounting, Anaestelle De La Vega has consistently demonstrated her talents and has led herself to be regarded as one of the most important employees at the firm.

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  • Author Maeve Binchy
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    My mother hoped I would meet a nice doctor or barrister or accountant who would marry me and take me to live in what is now called Fashionable Dublin Four. But she felt that this was a vain hope. I was a bit loud to make a nice professional wife, and anyway, I was too keen on spending my holidays in far flung places to meet any of these people.

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  • Author Mark Davis
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    I think they'll be concerned, but ultimately supportive, ... Look, an accountant might have looked at actuarial tables and said it wasn't cost-efficient to have levees to protect against a Category 5 storm because the odds of that hitting the area were slim, and the odds of it overtopping levees even if it hit were slim as well.

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  • Author Jonah Goldberg
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    You can make a very good argument that society would be much worse off if you let 10 rapists and murderers free rather than put one poor, wrongly accused accountant in prison. And so my only point on that is that it should open up an argument. It should not sort of settle one, because nobody disagrees with it.

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  • Author Robert Goodman
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    You would never hire an accountant to just put in the income side of how much you earn if you have a business. You put in the income and expenses and come up with a net figure.

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  • Author John Heine
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    Usually a lawyer looks at the narrative portion of the registration. An accountant looks at the financial statements. As they're reviewing the documents, they make notes about areas where they have questions or concerns about the adequacy or quality of disclosure, holding it up to the rules we have in place. On the basis of those notes, the staff composes something called a comment letter, which is sent to the filer.

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  • Author Mark Hamilton
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    Technology is enabling the restaurant industry to use the accountant very similarly to other industries.

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  • Author Brian Kennedy
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    It's possible the congressman and his accountant missed that paragraph in the 17,000-page IRS code, and his accountant is looking into it,

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