274 Quotes About Accounting

One day I was in Starbucks going through one of my books on accounting, and this beautiful young woman came up to me and said, 'My accounting book is different from yours.' Her name was Joyce, she had a background in finance and administration and ran a surgery center. Within a short time, we were married.

Men who reported being physically active were much less likely to have ED compared to men who reported no daily physical activity. Similarly, men who reported being sedentary - measured by hours of daily television viewing and video and computer use - were much more likely to have ED, even after accounting for other risk factors.

It is definitely the way things are going, but a year-end target sounds a bit aggressive. You have the currency issues and the accounting issues and you still have the regulatory issues, and in some countries there are issues about foreign ownership on stock. I think it's a lot easier to have foreign investors buying U.S. stocks rather than the other way around.

With this accounting treatment, aimed at disposing bad debt, we are now bracing for a turnaround.

When a company announces an accounting restatement you ask no questions. You sell immediately. You don't have to wait to see how much worse it's going to get. It's not going to get better.

Under the old world order, senior executives of companies that were most aggressive were the ones that won most often, ... We have to be able to convince the senior executives at companies that the world has changed and that under the new rules you are going to consistently lose if you are using accounting tricks.

We believe this project will have a significant impact on evaluations, income and balance sheets, and will become the major issue in financial accounting over the next five years.

The outlook accounting for Katrina suggests growth will slow in both the third and fourth quarter due to slower consumer spending.

The beautiful thing about computers is that they are really, at their core, accounting machines. They love to count things. Social relationships are countable.