Quotes About Accounting

Every quarter, we need to see the portfolio and follow the accounting practice of mark-to-market that values investments according to the prevailing market prices and at the price at which they are made.

We must investigate without fear or favour the so-called 'accounting irregularities' that cause turmoil in the markets and wipe billions off the investments of ordinary South Africans.

When you've got African parents, you go to uni, do finance, and go into accounting. But I'm not good with systems. I dropped out in my final year of college to become a Christian poet. Then went back to do my A-levels and went to uni in Birmingham to do political science and theology. I lasted 12 weeks.

I was a very bad accountant. I knew the book theory, but I didn't have the heart for it. I did it for six months, and my job was to distract the auditors with jokes.

No one would suggest completely ignoring news about your investments. Enron investors, for example, would have been well served to sell once early reports of accounting irregularities surfaced. But the key is to keep news in context and act only if further reflection or study indicates that the core thesis for an investment has changed.

Nature is an expert in cost-benefit analysis,' she says. 'Although she does her accounting a little differently. As for debts, she always collects in the long run...

In the case of Enron, we balance our positions all the time.

I think that, every time you saw the word EBITDA, you should substitute the word "bullshit" earnings.

Once we allow ourselves to be disobedient to the test of an accountant's profit, we have begun to change our civilisation.

All this is, if I understand it correctly, is a different way of doing the accounting. All employee time—whether it's direct or indirect, idle time or operating time, or whatever—is operational expense, according to Jonah. You're still accounting for it. It's just that his way is simpler, and you don't have to play as many games.

Fearlessness is an accounting trick. You feel the fear; you just defer it. I could stand on the cliff immobile, feeling terrified, or I could leap and feel the terror while falling.

I studied finance and accounting in college, and I worked at a massive accounting firm out of graduation.

so we have each of us in the dustiest cellars of our minds a counter at which we strive to repay the debts of the past with the debased currency of the present.

Thus, in the cases of harm to children they advocate retribution, but in the cases of impermissible acts by children, they favor restitution. Thus, they too use moral accounting to characterize justice, but the details are different. T

Early 2000s, we get Enron, which tells us the books are dirty. And what is our repeated response? We just keep pulling the threads out of the regulatory fabric.

I worked as a day laborer throughout college, worked for Deloitte and Touche, got my CPA.

He suspected he drank to give himself a way of accounting for the vast difference between any present situation and the intentions that brought him to it.

Endeavour could be contacted only through PLANETCOM, which was an autonomous corporation famous for the strictness and efficiency of its accounting. It took a long time to establish a line of credit with PLANETCOM. Somewhere, someone was working on this, but, at the moment, PLANETCOM's hardhearted computers did not recognize the existence of the Rama Committee.

She bought a budget-plan account book and made her budgets as exact as budgets are likely to be when they lack budgets.

God is deadly serious about His word. He is deadly serious when He tells us in His Word that; a.) He will bless those who bless Israel and curse those who curse Israel and b.) He demands an accounting for spilt innocent blood. He said it, He meant it and He will enforce His Word.

No matter how good the individuals who manage an institution are, institutions lack a conscience because they measure by accounting methods.

Home base is the support system where we have a culinary team, my own writers because of the shows and the books and stuff, we have a culinary team of about six people. Marketing, public relations, accounting and all that sort of stuff.

The S. D. D. comes out in June, I'm told. Prepublication sales have been quite good and Cape are reissuing STG and Less Than Angels. I don't think I shall ever be liable for VAT but I have bought a new account book (as advised in the last no. of The Author – I expect sales have shot up!). But the main thing is to feel that I am now regarded as a novelist, a good feeling after all those years of 'This is well written, but…

I am the despair of my accountant; I am the plastic bags of receipts.