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Accounting and other issues are still overriding the market. There have been some reasonably good economic numbers but the earnings situation hasn't gotten as good as it could. You could make a case for the bull and the bear.

It's a shock and a surprise. With the resolution of accounting issues, a new president and new CTO, the company was moving forward.

As long as we have loose accounting and auditing in Canada, this is going to continue to be a problem,

John Alexander

That's just goofy. Making it easier for the accounting side shouldn't even be a consideration. They ought to be more concerned about students.

This event highlights once again the difficulty in determining earnings for derivative transactions. It also encourages those who feel that bank accounting in this area is weak. It is a reason why many large banking companies have such low multiples on their stock.

This action reflects the commission's close scrutiny of accounting practices in the technology industry to make certain that the financial disclosure of companies in this area reflect present reality,

Donald Peterson

This accounting change in no way affects the actual value or security of our pension or post-retirement assets. No cash will leave the plan or flow back to Lucent as a result of this change.

this indicates possibility that there could be other accounting control issues.

There was no improper accounting of money. All money was appropriately accounted for,

There's a cost associated with properly accounting for all of your income and personal dealings, and most people don't want to pay it.

There may be some parts of this company that may be worth buying, but the accounting isn't clear. You have to do the due diligence.

This is a very, very significant win for the government. As chief accounting officer, he knows where the financial skeletons are buried.

They're hiring consultants. They're hiring accounting firms. They're buying software. Everything is changing.

David Bailey

There's clearly increasing sophistication among investment products our clients are using. We are able to manage many of those types of products internally on existing accounting platforms...but if you really want to provide a deeper level of information, then you simply look for a higher level of automation of capturing what I describe as those held-away assets.

This is the evidence that our accounting standards are far behind international ones.

The U.S. recovery story is intact and the real side of the U.S. economy looks very positive. But you have concerns on the accounting front and they are very hard to quantify.

The situations have different issues. Here we're seeing a bending and stretching of the rules. Over there the rules are totally crushed. ...We have an accounting standards board and a fairly strict set of standards. Yes, we're seeing some problems. But by comparison they are nothing like the problems in Japan.

These new reports about accounting gimmicks at Halliburton while Cheney was CEO only reinforce those concerns. It's no wonder people think this White House has trouble with the truth and lacks credibility.

Offering our clients the deepest resources possible has always been one of our primary goals. Our affiliation will enable us to enhance our service offerings on many levels, including international tax planning and compliance, as well as accounting and auditing services globally.

Oh, a wise guy. It was you who didn't do nothing about those crooks in the first place. And then you wouldn't listen to nobody about what to do. And then you who didn't tell anyone about the problem with the new accounting board guy.

Iain Banks

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.

It's really getting treated with skepticism. Investors have turned in their rose-colored glasses for accounting visors.

Do not lock yourself into an egotistical and a purely (financial) accounting approach to football.

David Hoffman

Even with a lot of the accounting stuff out, they've still got to make the jury understand the underlying fraud, and that's where I think Sean will shine.

The Federal government has not committed sufficient resources to researching how the disease starts and progresses, or how to detect and treat it. When accounting for all Federal funding on specific cancers, the U.S. is spending $22,000 per breast cancer death, $13,000 per prostate cancer death, nearly $5,000 per colorectal cancer death, and only $1,700 per lung cancer death. Considering that lung cancer is the leading cancer killer in this country -- with only a 15 percent survival rate after 5 years -- this level of funding is unacceptable.

The cooperation in the fullest possible accounting is excellent and we need to give the Vietnamese credit for having stayed the course on that,

The beautiful thing about computers is that they are really, at their core, accounting machines. They love to count things. Social relationships are countable.

It's impressive, but it's probably technical. We still have these accounting questions.

It's a mildly positive report, even though a long list of major accounting errors is never good.

The new accounting standards won't significantly affect Cheung Kong's underlying profit until the second half when both rental income and the value of its investment properties are expected to continue to rise.

It's something of an uplifting experience for us in the investing community to see that companies really are taking their accounting seriously. An exercise that CEOs seemed to treat as rote and automatic is viewed totally differently.

David Cooper

Everybody seems to that probably the state is not accounting correctly for the money,

For 2005, we again generated industry leading operating cash flow, despite lower earnings resulting from industry-wide cost pressures and the impact of several non-cash accounting write-downs.