274 Quotes About Accounting

There was a colossal bankruptcy, 50,000 people lost their jobs, tens of billions of dollars were lost and there was a $4 billion accounting fraud. Keep a little perspective, guys,

Those things don't exist now. I think right now they're much more transparent in their accounting for their economy.

There's clearly increasing sophistication among investment products our clients are using. We are able to manage many of those types of products internally on existing accounting platforms...but if you really want to provide a deeper level of information, then you simply look for a higher level of automation of capturing what I describe as those held-away assets.

Increasingly, companies would pretty much write their own accounting rules when they put together their earnings releases. We said to ourselves, let's figure out how to do this the right way so the earnings number really tells us something about what's going on and the number is consistent from company to company.

Any company out there that has some accounting concerns, either real or imagined, is getting hit today. There's fear out there that maybe Enron was just the tip of the iceberg.

This event highlights once again the difficulty in determining earnings for derivative transactions. It also encourages those who feel that bank accounting in this area is weak. It is a reason why many large banking companies have such low multiples on their stock.

The chronically ill and those toward the end of their lives are accounting for potentially 80% of the total health care bill out there. There is going to have to be a very difficult democratic conversation that takes place. The decision is not whether or not we will ration care. The decision is whether we will ration with our eyes open.

The goodwill charge just confirms in accounting terms what the market determined a long time ago.

Maybe it wasn't anything remotely to do with religion, mysticism or metaphilosophy after all; maybe it was more banal; maybe it was just...accounting.