274 Quotes About Accounting

  • Author Jacob Frenkel
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    What it really means is a shorter, more focused trial, which is better for the government. It probably takes out of the equation some of the more complex accounting issues. The defense was likely hoping to make this case seem like a complex civil financial fraud case, and without Causey, that will be more difficult.

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  • Author Joel Fox
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    We spent $250,000 on an armored bus and hundreds of thousands on security guards, bulletproof vests, night goggles, and safe day camps for children. We're very proud of what we've accomplished, and we maintain a very vigorous paper trail and accounting methods to track where every dollar is spent.

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  • Author Laura Fisher
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    They're hiring consultants. They're hiring accounting firms. They're buying software. Everything is changing.

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  • Author Norihiro Fujito
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    The accounting problems in the U.S. seem to have crossed a significant hurdle on Wednesday, and the external pressures on the Japanese market in general have probably peaked.

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  • Author Alan Greenspan
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    In principle, stock-option grants, properly constructed, can be highly effective in aligning corporate officers' incentives with those of shareholders, ... Regrettably, the current accounting for options has created some perverse effects on the quality of corporate disclosures that, arguably, is further complicating the evaluation of earnings.

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  • Author Brett Gallagher
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    The undertone to the market is still somewhat positive. The economic data shows that we have bottomed. It's what allowed markets to recover in early January. But the accounting issues are here to stay.

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  • Author Edward Greenspan
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    No such initiative has been attempted in recent much larger white collar financial crime cases where there were allegations of accounting fraud, bankruptcy, thousands of people out of work, billions of dollars lost to investors -- none of which has occurred or is alleged here.

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  • Author Gary Glenn
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    Log Cabin's accounting shell game will not cover up Grover's act of utter betrayal of the Reagan coalition of social and fiscal conservatives.

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