Famous Quotes & Sayings

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 indicates possibility that there could be other accounting control issues.

Franklin Raines

Although to my knowledge the company has always made good faith efforts to get its accounting right, the SEC has determined that mistakes were made. By my early retirement, I have held myself accountable.

A lot of people thought there would be new accounting issues and there were none.

E. B. White

A lot of the legal firms and accounting firms that had locations in South Hampton Roads opened locations on the Peninsula. What we are trying to do is not different than what happened before.

A merger this huge creates a maze of affiliate transactions and accounting that will be difficult to oversee and audit.

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.

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.

a real burden on a small company that's going public. The accounting expenses engendered by Sarbanes-Oxley are...just tremendous.

As a result, net exports contributed positively to the accounting of GDP growth in November.

As a vital health care provider and major employer, Westchester Medical Center is an important part of the community. But the corporation's combination of fiscal challenges, financial control weaknesses and accounting problems brought it close to the point of collapse.

The bottom line is that, when you start taking a look at the accounting differences, it comes down to we're about $117 million higher than Consumers and about two-thirds of that can be attributable to health care and pension benefits.

The CA investigation is an ongoing thing. They've had problems long before accounting scrutiny was fashionable, so the impact of that is muted. There is the sense that the market wants to shrug off the bad news.

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.

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.

Ginni Rometty

Embracing new ways of managing key business processes, such as procurement and accounts payable, allows leading companies like Colgate to uncover significant new sources of value within their operations. We're pleased to help Colgate move its business forward using our organization's expertise in procurement innovation coupled with IBM's well established group of supply chain and accounting professionals.

Each day the uncertainty surges and investor non-confidence increases amid the rise in cases of creative accounting in the United States.

Michael Davies

Establishing LEA Europe and LEA Asia Pacific enables us to deliver a unique advantage -- best-in-class strategies and processes, faster new service development cycles, improved recruiting and retention and accelerated profitability -- to accounting firms around the world.

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.

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,

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.

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.

We thank David for his contribution over the past three years and wish him a successful future. We are pleased that Allen has agreed to take on the additional responsibility. He has done a tremendous job over the past three years as our chief accounting officer and will help ensure a seamless transition.

We spent $250,000 on an armored bus and hundreds of thousands on security guards, bulletproof vests, night goggles, and safe day camps for children. We're very proud of what we've accomplished, and we maintain a very vigorous paper trail and accounting methods to track where every dollar is spent.

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.