I don't know technology and engineering. I don't know accounting.

- Bernard Ebbers

A record company used to be a very good thing, but they ended up soul-destroyingly trapping people in the accounting department. And you couldn't get any further, and the heads of each department were changing all the time, so you couldn't have any permanent relationship within the corporation.

- John Lydon

The scriptures make the danger of delay clear. It is that we may discover that we have run out of time. The God who gives us each day as a treasure will require an accounting.

- Henry B. Eyring

Accounting does not make corporate earnings or balance sheets more volatile. Accounting just increases the transparency of volatility in earnings.

- Diane Garnick

How many married couples do you know who met over accounting books in a Starbucks?

- David Schweikert

One of the disconcerting things about writing for publication is that you're trying to clear your little parcel of land in a field where Taste is king - and, as we all know, there's no accounting for Taste.

- Darin Strauss

There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

- David Letterman

I have gone to great lengths, and in some cases beyond what is required by the reporting guidelines to ensure all of my filings are beyond reproach, by hiring an independent third-party accounting firm to review and audit all of my previous annual financial disclosures.

- Bob Corker

I suppose that the scope and implications of such forces have rendered my personal accounting ritual pretty much obsolete. That's how things sometimes go.

- Brian Ferneyhough

Capital isn't this pile of money sitting somewhere; it's an accounting construct.

- Bethany McLean

If an alien with an accounting degree touched down in America, it might conclude that we're a weird cult that spends 11 months living frugally and four crazy weeks buying tons of stuff we don't need. It wouldn't be entirely wrong, either.

- Adam Davidson

I was never a Certified Public Accountant... I just had a degree in accounting. The reason I was never a Certified Public Accountant was because it would require passing a test, which I would not have been able to do.

- Bob Newhart

I worked in accounting for two and a half years, realized that wasn't what I wanted to do with the rest of my life, and decided I was just going to give comedy a try.

- Bob Newhart

In the tradition of national income accounting, economic policymakers have typically focused on variables such as income, wealth, and consumption.

- Ben Bernanke

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.

- Ban Ki-moon

And just remember, every dollar we spend on outsourcing is spent on U.S. goods or invested back in the U.S. market. That's accounting.

- Arthur Laffer

I don't let it bother me too much if someone doesn't like me. I just figure there's no accounting for taste. It's not me, it's my acting. It's like if someone doesn't like someone's food, they just don't like my acting.

- Anna Chlumsky

I'm a good learner. I can dig in. I knew nothing about mark-to-market accounting when I started the 'Enron' film.

- Alex Gibney

Enron had already collapsed and filed for bankruptcy protection by the beginning of 2002. But despite complaints from short sellers that corporations had used accounting gimmickry to inflate their profits, many investors thought the crisis at Enron was an isolated case.

- Alex Berenson

Accounting rules give financial institutions flexibility about when they choose to recognize venture capital profits.

- Alex Berenson