Derivatives serve practically no purpose except to enrich bankers through opaque pricing and to deceive investors through off-the-balance-sheet accounting.
Balance Sheets are meaningless. Our accounting systems are still based on the assumption that 80% of costs are manual labor.
If you do any thriller or horror movie a big part of the process is accounting for the cell phone.
In the tradition of national income accounting economic policymakers have typically focused on variables such as income wealth and consumption.
I'm a good learner. I can dig in. I knew nothing about mark-to-market accounting when I started the 'Enron' film.
There is no accounting for tastes as the woman said when someone told her her son was wanted by the police.
There is no business like show business. There is also no business like certified public accounting but that doesn't rhyme as well.
I smelled silt on the wind turkey laundry leaves . . . my God what a world. There is no accounting for one second of it (267).
No matter what all your teeth and wet fingers anticipated there was no accounting for the way that simple joy could shake you.
RICH adj. Holding in trust and subject to an accounting the property of the indolent the incompetent the unthrifty the envious and the luckless.
I would argue that a majority of the horrors we face would not have happened if the accounting profession developed and enforced better accounting.
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.
Proper accounting is like engineering. You need a margin of safety. Thank God we don't design bridges and airplanes the way we do accounting.
If you look at the Forbes 400 they are paying a lower rate accounting payroll taxes than their secretary or - whomever around their office.
And just remember every dollar we spend on outsourcing is spent on U.S. goods or invested back in the U.S. market. That's accounting.
Identity theft involving these cards is a growing form of white collar crime facilitating illegal immigration banking and accounting fraud tax evasion and other nefarious activities.
Including the value of natural resources and our social capital in national accounting is a vital step to achieve economic growth that is equitable and sustainable.
National Health Insurance means combining the efficiency of the Postal Service with the compassion of the I.R.S. ... and the cost accounting of the Pentagon.
There are no new cash payments or obligations here. This is an accounting reflection of the deal they announced on Monday. It`s all by the books.
We have a remarkably complete picture in many ways - and it could be that we're not accounting for something that's almost three-quarters of the entire universe
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...
There is a divergence between private and social accounting that the market fails to register. One essential task of law and government is to institute the necessary conditions.
Another thing he told his customers was that one of the great accounting unknowns of the modern age was how to value knowledge. It was an exciting field.
On a personal level as a Christian it will not be Barbra Streisand I'm standing in front of when I have to make an accounting of my life.
Unfortunately WorldCom is not the only company caught up in this kind of accounting scandal. The impact this will have on the general public is yet to be seen.
I have been asked politely and not so politely why I am myself. This is an accounting any woman will be called on to give if she asserts her will.
I think in a couple of weeks the question of all these bad write-offs will be behind us because everybody is going to throw in the towel on bad accounting.
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.
For a hot-shot CEO taking over a troubled company mass firings are the ultimate quick fix the accounting equivalent of crack: cheap easy to score instantly gratifying and highly addictive.
There's just no accounting for happiness or the way it turns up like a prodigal who comes back to the dust at your feet having squandered a fortune far away.
And when the chickens that didn't hatch come home to roost we will rue the day when misled by sloppy accounting and rosy scenarios we gave away the national nest egg.
When a manufacturing engineer is hired to create new products but insists on sharing his "wisdom" in accounting with the company controller he is not going to last long in that company.
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.
Between a tyrant and a prince there is this single or chief difference that the latter obeys the law and rules the people by its dictates accounting himself as but their servant.
My philosophy is not a bean-counting accounting 'look at this.' It is a philosophy that smaller government is better government and government that is closer to the people is best of all.
Elections are a good deal like marriages. There's no accounting for anyone's taste. Every time we see a bridegroom we wonder why she ever picked him and it's the same with public officials.
Law is par excellence the thing that wants a reason. Now the only possible way of accounting for the laws of nature and for uniformity in general is to suppose them results of evolution.
In engineering people have a big margin of safety. But in the financial world people don't give a damn about safety. They let it balloon and balloon and balloon. It's aided by false accounting.
The bailout of Fannie Mae is completely off the books. It's going to cost us hundreds of billions of dollars. Yet nobody is placing this in any type of column in accounting for federal debt.
The scriptures make the danger of delay clear. It is that we may discover that we have run out of time. The God who gives us each day as a treasure will require an accounting.
I worked in accounting for two and a half years realized that wasn't what I wanted to do with the rest of my life and decided I was just going to give comedy a try.
Accounting is the language of business.
I've met them down in the Cost and Accounting Department clean-shaven and in white collars. They can't see a damn thing ridiculous about themselves... only about you.
There's no business like show business but there are several businesses like accounting.
Balanced budget requirements seem more likely to produce accounting ingenuity than genuinely balanced budgets.
There are no accounting issues no trading issues no reserve issues no previously unknown problem issues.
We have the most crude accounting tools. It's tragic because our accounts and our national arithmetic doesn't tell us the things that we need to know.
Cost Accounting is enemy number one of productivity.
Mark-to-market accounting is like crack. Don't do it.
Accounting was the course that helped me more than anything.
I don't know technology and engineering. I don't know accounting.
If you want an accounting of your worth count your friends.
Political elections are a good deal like marriages there's no accounting for anyone's taste.
Destiny gave me only two things: a few accounting books and the gift of dreaming.
Accounting rules give financial institutions flexibility about when they choose to recognize venture capital profits.
Accounting for the most part remains a legalistic and traditional practice almost immune to self-criticism by scientific methods.
Accounting does not make corporate earnings or balance sheets more volatile. Accounting just increases the transparency of volatility in earnings.
history like nature has its own economy its own balancing of forces in the final accounting. Nothing can be lost except to awareness.
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.
Electronic Accounting Systems processed my little payrolls like one big payroll. I did the selling and the people I hired did most of the operations.
I don't really care about money. I find money boring and accounting boring so I'm probably not going to ever make a lot of money.
Accounting for the unpaid care economy can drive progressive policies such as paid family leave social security credits for early childcare tax credits and quality early childhood education.
Accounting incomes were reduced by discrepancy [ but] "the net amount paid by lawyers for lawyerly discrepancy is close to zippo. In this case the goddess of justice was blind.
I came up with the idea for what later became Paychex in 1970 when I was working for Electronic Accounting Systems a company that sold payroll processing to companies with 50 to 1 000 employees.
Andre Tippett was an impact player who consistently played at a level that set him apart. Accounting for him limited what an offense could do. He made quarterbacks nervous.and rightly so.
The accounting of the sacrifice is more than anything else the attitude toward war memorials in our time.
I know what I don't know. To this day I don't know technology and I don't know finance or accounting.
Life as we know it with all its ups and downs will soon be over. We all will give an accounting to God of how we have lived.
The U.S. tax code was written by A students. Every April 15 we have to pay somebody who got an A in accounting to keep ourselves from being sent to jail.
There is no accounting for tastes.
Creativity is great-but not in accounting.
There is no accounting for human beings.
Aggressive accounting does not mean illegal accounting.
I have to say accounting almost killed me.
Each generation makes it's own accounting to its children.
There's no accounting for the mysteries of the human heart
Mathematics is less related to accounting than it is to philosophy.
Go is to Western chess what philosophy is to double-entry accounting.
... preliminary accounting banking and surveying (known as arithmetic algebra and geometry).
What is meat for one is not for another--no accounting for fancy.
The reaction of weak management to weak operations is often weak accounting.
Capital isn't this pile of money sitting somewhere; it's an accounting construct.
There's no accounting for laws. Or the changes wrought by men and time.
I don't know about technology and I don't know about finance and accounting.
Never measure literature by accounting statistics. A quarter of working authors earn less than $1 000.
To say accounting for derivatives is Americais a sewer is an insult to sewage.
The Social Sciences are good at accounting for disasters once they have taken place.
To be successful you should concentrate on the world of companies not arcane accounting mathematics.
How many married couples do you know who met over accounting books in a Starbucks?
Legacy accounting: Will you have been an asset or a liability on the world's balance sheet?
The only accounting we had of the origins and the structure of nature was Biblical Genesis.
There is always something for which there is no accounting. Take for example the whole world.
In the long run managements stressing accounting appearance over economic substance usually achieve little of either.
Pain is the most private experience but its causes whether natural or man-made demand public accounting.
Dark subtle complex wicked - if only Hollywood movies were half as interesting as Hollywood accounting.
To multiply the years and divide by the desire to live is a kind of false accounting.
Anyone with an engineering frame of mind will look at [accounting standards] and want to throw up.
In the corporate world sometimes things aren`t exactly black and white when it comes to accounting procedures.
There are only two things as complicated as insurance accounting and I have no idea what they are.
Managers and investors alike must understand that accounting numbers are the beginning not the end of business valuation.
People don't pay attention. And then one day there's an accounting. And after that nothing is the same.