Quotes About Accounting

I'm satisfied it's very black, meaning 'in the black'.

Some of our earliest writing, in cuneiform, was about who owes what.

The passing of my accountant, Mary Coleman, who was the first person I shouted out on 'In Memory of...' was particularly devastating for me. She was beyond my accountant. She was my mother away from home.

Accounting does not make corporate earnings or balance sheets more volatile. Accounting just increases the transparency of volatility in earnings.

Budget: a mathematical confirmation of your suspicions.

In removing the friction involved in paying bills, electronic billing has substantially increased the friction involved in not paying them.

Na propriedade, como em todos os elementos econômicos, o mal ou o abuso é inseparável do bem, exatamente como na contabilidade por partidas dobradas o dever é inseparável do haver. Um engendra necessariamente o outro. Querer suprimir o abuso da propriedade é destruí-la; da mesma maneira que suprimir um artigo do débito de uma conta é destruí-lo no crédito.

In the 1980s reindeer meat still made a substantial profit. Every other activity, even when the real cost of anything at all was masked by the Soviet tangle of cross-subsidies and phantom accounting, ran at a severe loss. Though this was to change beyond all recognition in the 1990s, reindeer herders in the 1980s were fairly well paid and well provisioned, and their exotic holidays were provided free.

I find imaginary numbers useful when computing my tax deductions.

No, when I worked as an accountant I was falling asleep waiting for 5 o'clock.

When I wake up in the morning, the first thing I look at is the checking account report from the day before. I love checking accounts. I dream about them.

The more I use a matrix, the easier I make it to blame someone else.

Éramos su cuentista, nos hemos convertido en su contable.

Beginning about ten thousand years ago, cities began to emerge. Although tiny by today's standards, they were the centers of the first "civilizations," a word derived from civitas, which means "citizenship" or "inhabitants of a city" in Latin. Because farming created assets to plunder and to protect, it also created a requirement for inventory accounting.

Pentagon auditors told Smith that as of the end of 2003, about $1 billion in KBR's supposed costs in Iraq were not credible and should be thrown out.

First of all, the book's true name wasn't Doomsday, but rather Domesday. After the old English root dom, which meant 'reckoning' or 'accounting.' The book was commissioned by King William as a means to assess the value of his newly conquered lands, a way to assign tax and tithing.

Anyone who even notices, let alone calls attention to the curious, but utterly coincidental and meaningless fact that every world on which the Guide has ever set up an accounting department has shortly afterward perished in warfare or some natural disaster, is liable to get sued to smithereens.

You'll see all other mortal sinners, the ones who flout the honor owed to gods or guests, or loving parents--you'll see them get the justice they deserve. For Hades holds men mightily to a strict accounting down below the earth; he sees all things, inscribes them within the book of his remembering.

Tax Day is right up there with 'Root Canal Day' in terms of days that no one wants to celebrate.

The moment I write out a cheque, it's an asset I have written off.

I suppose that the scope and implications of such forces have rendered my personal accounting ritual pretty much obsolete. That's how things sometimes go.

When a corporation writes something off, it accepts the cost. When we write off corporations as inherently corrupt, we accept the cost, too.

Ultimately the destruction of the Earth is due in part, perhaps in large part, to a failure of the imagination or to its eclipse by systems of accounting that can't count what matters.

The word accounting comes from the word accountability. If you are going to be rich, you need to be accountable for your money.