Accounting Quotes

“See, the things we do, everything—the universe is watching. Good and bad. And that motherfucker is making a list like a goddammed accountant. And, in the end, all the accounts have to balance.”
― J.K. Franko, Tooth for Tooth

“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 more…plus, I knew even then that as a full-time writer, I'd get plenty of chances to do business-type stuff, while as an accountant, I probably wouldn't get a lot of opportunities to write about dragons.”
― Patricia C. Wrede

“In the long run managements stressing accounting appearance over economic substance usually achieve little of either.”
― Warren Buffett

“Language as a Prison

The Philippines did have a written language before the Spanish colonists arrived, contrary to what many of those colonists subsequently claimed. However, it was a language that some theorists believe was mainly used as a mnemonic device for epic poems. There was simply no need for a European-style written language in a decentralized land of small seaside fishing villages that were largely self-sufficient.

One theory regarding language is that it is primarily a useful tool born out of a need for control. In this theory written language was needed once top-down administration of small towns and villages came into being. Once there were bosses there arose a need for written language. The rise of the great metropolises of Ur and Babylon made a common written language an absolute necessity—but it was only a tool for the administrators. Administrators and rulers needed to keep records and know names— who had rented which plot of land, how many crops did they sell, how many fish did they catch, how many children do they have, how many water buffalo? More important, how much then do they owe me? In this account of the rise of written language, naming and accounting seem to be language's primary "civilizing" function. Language and number are also handy for keeping track of the movement of heavenly bodies, crop yields, and flood cycles. Naturally, a version of local oral languages was eventually translated into symbols as well, and nonadministrative words, the words of epic oral poets, sort of went along for the ride, according to this version.

What's amazing to me is that if we accept this idea, then what may have begun as an instrument of social and economic control has now been internalized by us as a mark of being civilized. As if being controlled were, by inference, seen as a good thing, and to proudly wear the badge of this agent of control—to be able to read and write—makes us better, superior, more advanced. We have turned an object of our own oppression into something we now think of as virtuous. Perfect! We accept written language as something so essential to how we live and get along in the world that we feel and recognize its presence as an exclusively positive thing, a sign of enlightenment. We've come to love the chains that bind us, that control us, for we believe that they are us (161-2).”
― David Byrne, Bicycle Diaries

“Net Income is more important than gross revenues.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Honest accounting is a really important part of corporate responsibility. Let's just be honest and transparent with the numbers. No inflating, no exaggerating, no reconfiguring... Just pure numbers that tell the honest truth about the companies financial reality.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“All else being constant, Gross Profit is more important than EBITDA.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth, Business Essentials

“Goodwill; earned by deeds, not words, weighed by values, not intangibility; same for respect.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, Debit Credit of Life: from the good books of accounts

“I miss the days when forensic accountancy and security engineering were distinct fields.”
― Cory Doctorow, Red Team Blues

“Ups and downs in life are like debit and credit transactions in accounts; cause and effect for balancing and growth.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, Debit Credit of Life: from the good books of accounts

“When you face the challenges of life and don't give up, the face value of your confidence shoots up.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, Debit Credit of Life: from the good books of accounts

“Friends with toxic thoughts are like assets that cause depletion to the value of life.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, Debit Credit of Life: from the good books of accounts

“Good deeds generate good luck, like compound interest.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, Debit Credit of Life: from the good books of accounts

“Financial statements are my novels, I am a Chartered Accountant.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, Debit Credit of Life: from the good books of accounts

“The contentment when a signature becomes an autograph is lesser than the moment your signature becomes a seal of trust; as a Chartered Accountant.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, Debit Credit of Life: from the good books of accounts

“Every balance sheet tells a story that I love to read. I am a Chartered Accountant.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, Debit Credit of Life: from the good books of accounts

“If others qualify, it's a great going; if an auditor qualifies, it's not.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, Debit Credit of Life: from the good books of accounts

“Let there be a CA and chill.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, Debit Credit of Life: from the good books of accounts

“Keep calm and leave the business worries to your Chartered Accountant.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, Debit Credit of Life: from the good books of accounts

“All Ticked and Tallied; be it life, be it accounts. I am a Chartered Accountant.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, Debit Credit of Life: from the good books of accounts

“The Chartered Accountancy degree is not a destination, but the start of a journey.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, Debit Credit of Life: from the good books of accounts

“The reason of CA being the most respected profession is that it doesn’t have any quota or reservation system.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, Debit Credit of Life: from the good books of accounts

“You do not just become, you evolve as, a Chartered Accountant.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, Debit Credit of Life: from the good books of accounts

“Deposit the currency of time regularly in the recurring deposit account of your passion. How much did you deposit today?”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, Debit Credit of Life: from the good books of accounts

“Let the learning be the journal of life.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, Debit Credit of Life: from the good books of accounts

“Tough life and tough people are inversely proportional. Stay tough.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, Debit Credit of Life: from the good books of accounts

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“She keeps the books. She holds the key. She is the dealer.”
― Niedria D. Kenny, Order in the Courtroom: The Tale of The Texas Poker Player

“Herman Bluebeard, who said to Scotland Yard, 'How do I know how many women I've killed? I'm a murderer, not an accountant!”
― Red Buttons, I Never Got a Dinner

“And he said...

...numbers exist in the minds of men for they have a greedy desire for summation.”
― Anthony T. Hincks