15 quotes found
“Happiness is.. Starting your study with 3 principles of accounting, then your profession, with 3 principles of life.. CHALLENGE it, ACHIEVE it, Loop it. Happy to be a CA, Happy CA day.”
“I loved getting my M. B. A., and I really enjoyed being an accountant and financial analyst before I quit my day job twenty-five years ago to write full time. I just liked writing moreplus, I knew ...”
“[To admit that college isn't for everyone] may sound litist. It may even sound philistine, since the purpose of a liberal-arts education is to produce well-rounded citizens rather than productive w...”
“There is a husband who requires mileage receipts, another who wants sex at three a.m One who forbids short haircuts, another who refuses to feed the pets. I would never put up with that, the other ...”
“A firm's income statement may be, likened to a bikini-what it reveals is interesting but what it conceals is vital.”
“In the long run managements stressing accounting appearance over economic substance usually achieve little of either.”
“People are accustomed to thinking of accounting as dry and boring, a necessary evil used primarily to prepare financial reports and survive audits, but that is because accounting is something that ...”
“Whilst I could not think of any man whose spirit was, or needed to be, more enlarged than the spirit of a genuine merchant. What a thing it is to see the order which prevails throughout his busines...”
“Legacy accounting: Will you have been an asset or a liability on the world's balance sheet?”
“By the end of 1978, we had 11 partners and six franchisees, we were operating in 22 cities, and we had about 6,000 clients. We had left Electronic Accounting Systems and were doing our own processi...”
“I don't know technology and engineering. I don't know accounting.”
“Republicans and Democrats have used accounting gimmicks and competing government analyses to deceive the public into believing that 2 + 2 = 6. If our leaders cannot agree on the numbers, if 'facts'...”
“Don't ever let your business get ahead of the financial side of your business. Accounting, accounting, accounting. Know your numbers.”
“There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.”
“[To admit that college isn't for everyone] may sound élitist. It may even sound philistine, since the purpose of a liberal-arts education is to produce well-rounded citizens rather than productive ...”