Quotes about Accounting

neither materialism nor pantheism is up to the task of accounting for the origin of human beings.

No accounting was required from the men who received the money to pay the workmen, because they acted with integrity.

Then he asked another, ‘And how much do you owe?’ ‘A hundred measures of wheat,’ he replied. ‘Take your bill and write eighty,’ he told him.

There are two kinds of discontented in this world, the discontented that works and the discontented that wrings its hands. The first gets what it wants and the second loses what it has. There is no cure for the first but success and there is no cure at all for the second. The very worst of my vices and bad habits will abate of themselves if they are brought to an accounting every day.

It's clearly a budget. It's got lots of numbers in it.

I pay tax, and I pay federal tax, too. But I have a write-off, a lot of it's depreciation, which is a wonderful charge. I love depreciation.

Every city and town in America would be bankrupt if they kept their books the way private-sector companies keep their books - because of the obligation cities and towns have taken upon themselves to provide health care for their retirees.

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.

Nature is an expert in cost-benefit analysis,' she says. 'Although she does her accounting a little differently. As for debts, she always collects in the long run...

The moment I write out a cheque, it's an asset I have written off.

The word accounting comes from the word accountability. If you are going to be rich, you need to be accountable for your money.

It's clearly a budget. It's got lots of numbers in it.