This Department of Treasury, run by this administration, using the same tried and true accounting methods that every business in America uses, cast new light on the fiscal severity that our Nation is facing, what some would call a mess.
Jim Costa
BusinessLightAccountingAmerica
To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.
John F. Kennedy
FutureTrustPastAccountingFacts
The concept of fair value accounting is correct and useful, but the application during periods of crisis is problematic. It's another one of those unintended consequences of making a rule that's supposed to be good that turns out the other way.
Stephen A. Schwarzman
GoodValueAccountingConsequences
When I graduated from college, I tried my hardest to get a job at an accounting firm, and it just wasn't meant to be. I ended up delivering pizzas and newspapers. I knew my life was cracked up to be a little more.
Ronnie Coleman
LifeJobCollegeAccountingMy Life
While it's trendy to outsource your accounting to a third party, once you hit a certain size, it's dangerous.
Brad Feld
AccountingYouPartyDangerousSize
Balanced budget requirements seem more likely to produce accounting ingenuity than genuinely balanced budgets.
Thomas Sowell
AccountingBudgetMoreSeemThan
There are no accounting issues, no trading issues, no reserve issues, no previously unknown problem issues.
Kenneth Lay
AccountingProblemUnknownIssues
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.
Emeril Lagasse
HomeSupportPeopleTeamAccounting
We will be judged. There will be an accounting; there will be a reckoning sooner or later. It will either come from ourselves and our own conscience, or it will come from our kids when they ask that inconvenient question: 'What were you doing when they turned those kids back from the border?'
Beto O'Rourke
AccountingBorderDoingYouBack
I have some classes in accounting, but I don't know anything about accounting. I - you know, when my accountant tells me all the things he does, it's a foreign language to me.
Ray Romano
MeAccountingLanguageYouKnowHe
In the tradition of national income accounting, economic policymakers have typically focused on variables such as income, wealth, and consumption.
Ben Bernanke
AccountingTraditionWealthFocused
Although more than 500 million maritime containers move around the world each year, accounting for 90 per cent of international trade, only 2 per cent are inspected. Strengthening customs and immigration systems is essential.
Ban Ki-moon
WorldAccountingImmigrationYear
The U.S. government uses cash accounting. That is illegal for any enterprise of any size in America except for the U.S. government. Every for-profit business, every not-for-profit business, every state and local government has to use real accounting except for Uncle Sam.
Jim Cooper
BusinessGovernmentAccountingUncle
My dad for a long time was an accounting professor at Rice University. And then he went out on his own, and he got hired by a client. He ended up being CEO of a hospital management company before he retired, called Lifemark.
John Mackey
TimeManagementAccountingLongOut
I actually studied accounting in college. So I'm a CPA.
Stacy Brown-Philpot
CollegeAccountingActuallyStudied
If you want an accounting of your worth, count your friends.
Mary Browne
AccountingFriendsWorthYouWant
I was never a Certified Public Accountant... I just had a degree in accounting. The reason I was never a Certified Public Accountant was because it would require passing a test, which I would not have been able to do.
Bob Newhart
AccountingAccountantTestNever
I almost drowned in a hot tub at a writing workshop once after I had some drinks without accounting for how the high elevation would impact my tolerance.
Tim Pratt
WritingAccountingImpactTolerance
It is important that carbon storage is carefully regulated, that the process is transparent to the public, and that there is a clear accounting of what happened to the CO2. This is particularly true of underground storage, where there is always a small chance that pressurized CO2 could escape.
Klaus Lackner
SmallAccountingChanceProcessTrue
Almost all decisions based on cost accounting are utterly wrong.
Eliyahu Goldratt
AccountingDecisionsWrongCost
Developing safe products for people around the world will mean accounting for a much wider variety of devices, networks, infrastructure, and political environments.
Alex Stamos
PeopleWorldAccountingPolitical
Housing has led our nation's economic expansion over the past few years, accounting for 16 percent of our Gross Domestic Product. New housing starts and home sales hit record levels from 2003 through 2005.
Randy Neugebauer
HomePastAccountingNewSalesOver
There are tens of thousands of bank branches and 4,000 currency chests. We need to be careful and try that this is a number which is not a mere estimate but a verified number both physically and in the accounting sense.
Urjit Patel
AccountingTryBankNeedBe Careful
It was the king's army, the king's people, the king's taxes; and he who questioned the propriety of the royal prerogative of taking from his people without return or accounting, was reckoned, and felt himself to be, a criminal, guilty of the highest crime of disloyalty.
John Buchanan Robinson
KingPeopleAccountingArmyGuilty
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