Life as we know it, with all its ups and downs, will soon be over. We all will give an accounting to God of how we have lived.
In the old days, you would have one lawyer to handle everything: speeding tickets, buying a house, contracts, litigation, real estate, copyrights, leasing, entertainment, intellectual property, forensic accounting, criminal offenses... the list goes on. Now, you have to have a separate lawyer for each one of those categories!
Accounting does not make corporate earnings or balance sheets more volatile. Accounting just increases the transparency of volatility in earnings.
There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.
There are no accounting issues, no trading issues, no reserve issues, no previously unknown problem issues.
It is crucial that we develop real awareness of ourselves as citizens of Earth, linked by mutual and indissoluble bonds. When we clearly recognize this reality and ground ourselves in it, we are compelled to take a strict accounting of our way of life.
I don't know technology and engineering. I don't know accounting.
I know what I don't know. To this day, I don't know technology, and I don't know finance or accounting.
Accounting rules give financial institutions flexibility about when they choose to recognize venture capital profits.
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.