Famous Quotes & Sayings

This new service is an ideal way for our Business Check Card customers to simplify their accounting practices and better manage company expenses.

Terry Smith

There had been no standardization among desktop computers. Although it seemed as if we were changing only the accounting system (or desktop), we were implementing a large culture change. We faced a training challenge when we asked people to transition to a Windows 95 environment from DOS.

Mark Jones

We have experienced significant client growth and increased demand by small business owners for consulting services, particularly in accounting and financial reporting. Ms. Mills will relocate her office and continue her practice with our firm, focusing on consulting for small businesses and tax planning and preparation.

You get a certain amount of respect when you start accounting for 1,000 transactions a month.

To be forced to stake our economic future on accounting maneuvers and inflated growth estimates is a stunning reversal from the economic situation you inherited just seven short months ago,

What seemed to be doable in July all of a sudden seems to drag and drag, and at the last minute, there's this crunch to meet shareholder expectations or the accounting end of things,

What people don't realize is that intimacy has its conventions as well as ordinary social intercourse. There are three cardinal rules -- don't take somebody else's boyfriend unless you've been specifically invited to do so, don't take a drink without being asked, and keep a scrupulous accounting in financial matters.

David Kaufman

We firmly believe that he never would have been convicted had the court not given this instruction, ... because it was clear to anyone sitting in the courtroom that there was no credible evidence that Bernie knew about the accounting decisions in question.

With recent growth, we were soon going to need an upgrade for our Sage MIP Fund Accounting product. The new product configuration gives us the freedom to grow without upgrading products and without fees. In addition, the new workflow navigator built into the latest version of Sage MIP Fund Accounting will make processing payroll even easier, and the new payroll reports will help our management and department heads stay on top of costs.

The reason it happens is the accounting is very bad.

The recent discovery of prior-year accounting errors has been extremely disappointing and embarrassing to all of us. Credibility is paramount, for GM as a company and for me personally.

These accounting worries go right to the underpinnings of trust and confidence. If trust isn't there, you're tugging at the loose thread of a cheap polyester suit. People are worried about what other shoes are getting ready to drop.

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.

I see no reason to buy banks now. Their fundamentals are shaky with bad loans and companies are stepping up selling of bank shares ahead of the September implementation of mark-to-market accounting rules.

What that will tend to do will be to drive down accounting rates in international markets, which will tend to stimulate volume growth, and that will be a good deal for customers.

There are a lot of accounting issues that have taken place under prior management that haven't gone away and don't appear to be dissipating.

We felt the need to connect with industry thought leaders who would help direct our product development to meet the future demands of the market. For our market of SOX compliance and financial controls, we reached out to accounting professors who are experts in risk management and corporate governance.

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.

Venus Williams

I have to say accounting almost killed me.

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.

David Cooper

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

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 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.

Accounting software is the first strategic business application that many small firms purchase, making it an important on-ramp for other business applications, which need to integrate with the accounting solution, and a first step towards higher end financial solutions.

Accounting is a hot domain with the number of accounting majors up nationwide. I think the recent scandals have brought a new level of attention to the accounting profession as gatekeepers and custodians of social interest.

Accounting errors were made; they will be corrected and they will be disclosed, ... Internal practices are being, and will continue to be, enhanced.

Accounting concerns continue to dominate the market. We're going to be seeing this 'Prove it to me' investing for a while.

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.

It was the latter that set off alarm bells in the accounting department, which might have been willing to let the plane pass, but not one with floats.