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No credible analysis of an accounting failure would suggest that the appropriate role of the chief executive officer was to substitute his own accounting judgments for those of the professionals.

The outlook accounting for Katrina suggests growth will slow in both the third and fourth quarter due to slower consumer spending.

If we had nothing else to do, the accounting investigations alone could keep us busy for the next five or 10 years. The size and magnitude are crushing,

We need a full accounting of the Bush administration's spending on advertising, PR, and fake news. It's time for Congress to reclaim its constitutional role as a counterweight to the executive branch and permanently cut off funding for covert propaganda. We must ensure that taxpayer money isn't being spent by the White House to secretly manipulate the American public.

Log Cabin's accounting shell game will not cover up Grover's act of utter betrayal of the Reagan coalition of social and fiscal conservatives.

Let me just say once and again that we are proud of our accounting and disclosure practices. We hope this issue is behind us and we'd like to move on.

Michael Chertoff

We owe the American people a full accounting from all levels of government concerning what went right and what went wrong with the initial Katrina response,

While none of these issues are enough to change our thesis on GM, they do raise our concerns on the company's internal accounting controls.

Identity theft involving these cards is a growing form of white collar crime, facilitating illegal immigration, banking and accounting fraud, tax evasion, and other nefarious activities.

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.

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.

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Small businesses are searching for a flexible, functional solution that will quickly and painlessly help them manage daily accounting tasks and also support a company's growth and evolution, from startup to mid-market. With its ease-of-use, depth of features and integrated components, Small Business PRO fully meets these expectations so companies can capitalize on the power of automation to increase efficiency and remain focused on advancing their business to the next level.

Skilled accountants are always in demand, and companies that proactively seek top candidates will be best prepared to take advantage of new business opportunities. A shrinking labor pool, created by low enrollment in accounting programs during the late 1990s and the expected exodus of millions of baby boomers from the workforce in the coming years, has intensified the competition for these professionals, mandating that recruiting be an ongoing process for companies of all sizes.

That's a pretty big national event and we felt fortunate to get to the finals. We'd hoped to win it but I think we gave a pretty good accounting for ourselves and we're ready to go to Texas next weekend.

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.

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.

It's not that Japan or Europe have better accounting systems than we do,

Richard Riley

Forensic accounting is not new. Accountants have provided fraudulent financial records investigation and litigation support to corporations, government and law enforcement for decades.

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.

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,

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.

David Cooper

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

Richard Shelby

It's very important that we bring credibility, which is integrity, to our capital markets. And we're going to have to do this by strengthening in a big way our accounting profession.

Jim Cooper

The U.S. government uses cash accounting. That is illegal for any enterprise of any size in America except for the U.S. government. Every for-profit business, every not-for-profit business, every state and local government has to use real accounting except for Uncle Sam.