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

It's going to come in pieces because that's how our accounting is coming to us.

It's a very good job hunting season. The average starting salary for accounting and finance majors is around $35,000, for business and management majors it's $36,000 and computer sciences majors top the charts at $46,000 average starting salaries.

That's one option voters and non-voters embrace. It puts undocumented immigrants into some kind of accounting system.

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.

A wholly unrealistic mandate to compete against itself with an aging fleet, aging workforce and and ailing infrastructure make a public accounting of the Coastal Ferry Act a necessity.

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.

Easter is the third-biggest seasonal driver for retailers in malls. The Christmas season November and December accounted for 25 percent of their sales last year. The beginning of summer May and June accounted for 15. 4 percent of total sales last year. Then came March and April, accounting for 12 percent of sales.

It's only with that kind of full accounting that you can have any assurance that the practice has stopped and will be prevented.

It's taken investors a lot of time to overcome the fear and uncertainty we've seen as a result of terrorist attacks, potential war with Iraq, accounting scandals, etc.,

For the first time, this document proposes international accounting standards for the recognition and measurement of the main sources of revenue for most governments and their entities - that is, taxes and transfers, including a wide range of non-exchange revenues. The exposure draft will provide guidance to those countries searching for accounting policies to deal with this complex area.

I do promise that we will give a full accounting to our readers of what we have found to date. Anything that further research reveals will be disclosed in a timely manner.

Colleges and universities are responding to a changing accounting landscape. More courses are being offered in areas such as internal audit, enterprise risk management, forensic accounting, information technology and business ethics.

Changing accounting rules can cause companies to change their behavior.

By allowing Delta to merge with Continental or Northwest, we would have three extremely large airlines accounting for 75 percent of market. But it would be harder for American and United to dominate Delta if Delta were to merge.

Michael Oxley

The legislation we crafted in conference goes a long way in solving the egregious problems that have arisen as a result of corporate misconduct and accounting scandals. It's not a total answer, but I think we made excellent progress, and the White House has informed me this morning that they support the conference agreement.

The Lord grants both, protection and punishment; for how can he be the Lord if he does not insist on strict accounting and strict obedience?

A modern computer is an electronic wonder that performs complex mathematical calculations and intricate accounting tabulations in one ten-thousandth of a second -- and then mails out statements ten days late.

AMR's accounting needs to be improved if they suddenly found another $75 million in losses, ... I wouldn't think people would sell on this, but you never know.

The film industry is famous -- or infamous -- for its creative accounting techniques that can turn obvious profits into paper losses, so fooling a bunch of state bureaucrats would be child's play.

The company's channel-stuffing and use of manipulative accounting artifices warrants a severe civil sanction that will act as a deterrent for other public companies.

The committee is profoundly disturbed about the recent string of allegations that companies...may have engaged in questionable accounting practices.

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,

We will be able to transfer data between our event management system and our accounting system, saving hundreds of hours of data entry.

Those things don't exist now. I think right now they're much more transparent in their accounting for their economy.

Technology can empower small retailers, freeing them up from mundane chores such as managing inventory and accounting systems manually. It can enable them to be a little more creative, a lot more efficient and a lot less sweaty.

See, Steven loved what he was doing and he would have wanted this. We are going to create a college fund for the kids and my agency will not make a penny. My accounting books are open for review.

The market is nervous. We're in a transition period as we get through all the accounting issues.