Quotes About Accounting

Prepare or Have an Advisor Prepare Separate Tax Returns.

Be sure to have a good CPA on your team. Many traps deal with taxation, and can be avoided with proper accounting advice.

This is approached as a business and as such money and the issues of money must always be accounted for and respected. The big money issues to track are: 1. Gross closed income—How much money did we make? 2. Budget—How much money did we spend? 3. Net income—How much money did we earn as profit? 4. Agent compensation—How much do I (the agent) personally get to take home?

You travel side by side through the life you share, and you come to think you know each other all too well. But if each of us enters the afterlife alone, and is asked to give an accounting, asked to speak of how one lived and what one lived for, then the accounting Daniel gave of his life might involve trials of which she knew nothing, sufferings of which he'd never spoken and that had left no outer mark.

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.

The worst way to release bad news is to bury it in the financial statement footnotes, in the hope that no one will see it. A diligent investor or analyst always reads the footnotes, and will not appreciate having to dig so deep to uncover potentially critical information.

The accrual method would show the company to be bigger and more profitable than it would appear using the cash method.

This transparent system of accounting means that we know which geiko did the most business on any given day. It is always clear who is Number One.

Desde que no vendemos una escoba se pasa los días emparedado en la trastienda con ese libro egipcio de los muertos. -Es el libro de contabilidad - corregí.

A good start is to keep an accurate record of each and every expenditure that your family makes each month. Or ask your accountant to help you set up a system for tabulating and categorizing these expenditures. Then work with her to develop a budget. The goal is to enable you to set aside for investing purposes at least 15 percent of your pretax income each year. By the way, this "15 percent method" is Mr. Gif-ford's simple strategy for becoming affluent. CAR-SHOPPING

I was vaguely attracted to both library science and accounting, for the way that these disciplines impose order on chaos.

Some of the scientists, I believe, haven't they been changing their opinion a little bit on global warming? There's a lot of differing opinions and before we react I think it's best to have the full accounting, full understanding of what's taking place.

Superfluous focus on accounting and other procedural details is preventing U.S. industry from competing with rough-and-ready rivals in Asia that can build thousands of factories and skyscrapers while the United States dithers with environmental-impact litigation, re-computation, and backup of accounting reports.

Managers don't have to cook the books to manipulate earnings; they often have all the power they need in the leeway built into accounting rules.

Few have heard of Fra Luca Parioli, the inventor of double-entry bookkeeping, but he has probably had more influence on human life than has Dante or Michelangelo.

What am I afraid of? The IRS. Thats it. I dont want those people knockin on my door, man.

I've got a balance sheet. Every year I have to figure out how much I generate and what I spend, and keep those two somewhat in relationship.

Capital isn't this pile of money sitting somewhere; it's an accounting construct.

Like cuneiform marks, Urton told me, khipu probably did begin as the kind of accounting tools envisioned by Locke. But by the time Pizarro arrived they had evolved into a kind of three-dimensional binary code, unlike any other form of writing on earth.

I've got an accountant who's been with me forty years. If he makes a mistake, he dies.

Without idealism, politics is reduced to a form of social accounting, the day-to-day administration of men and things. This too is something that a conservative can survive well enough. But for the Left it is a catastrophe.

It's clearly a budget. It's got lots of numbers in it.

Often when managers say, "Testing takes too long," what they should be saying is, "Fixing the bugs in the product takes too long"—a different cost category. Make sure you're accounting for effort and time under the correct cost category.

I'd rather lie bare-assed naked on the sidewalk and be trampled by tourists from South Dakota than be an accountant.