274 Quotes About Accounting

  • Author Stephen Roach
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    Global trade is an increasingly large component of the world economy -- now accounting for close to 25 percent of global GDP. So when world trade hits the wall, so should the broader measures of global output.

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  • Author Todd Rosenbluth
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    There are a lot of accounting issues that have taken place under prior management that haven't gone away and don't appear to be dissipating.

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  • Author Tom Reilly
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    He came in, walked by individuals who were working and specifically targeted the individuals we believe he shot, ... They were from the accounting division. And the woman who was at the reception desk at the time was a vice president, I believe, of human resources.

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  • Author Warren Rudman
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    We are looking at all the accounting issues we have looked at all along, and at this point, we don't have any conclusions. We are still hoping to wrap up the investigation by the end of December, and if we don't make it we'll do it in January.

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  • Author Allan Sloan
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    If the subject matter isn't inherently interesting - accounting comes to mind - I've got to make it amusing, if only to keep myself awake.

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  • Author Darin Strauss
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    One of the disconcerting things about writing for publication is that you're trying to clear your little parcel of land in a field where Taste is king - and, as we all know, there's no accounting for Taste.

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  • Author David Schertler
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    We're seeing cases of accounting improprieties that are being prosecuted criminally today that would not have been prosecuted that way 10 years ago.

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