#accounting

Housing has led our nation's economic expansion over the past few years, accounting for 16 percent of our Gross Domestic Product. New housing starts and home sales hit record levels from 2003 through 2005. ↗

— Randy Neugebauer

#domestic #economic #expansion #few #gross

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

— Bernard Ebbers

#engineering #i #know #technology

Mark-to-market accounting is like crack. Don't do it. ↗

— Andrew Fastow

#crack #like

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

#forces #go #how #i #implications

The Macau casinos have a wonderful business, it's taking in money from Chinese businessmen elsewhere who send it through junky companies to casinos to gamble. The growth continues and they have basically western managers and western accounting, so we trust the numbers a little bit more. ↗

— James Chanos

#basically #bit #business #businessmen #casinos

I don't really care about money. I find money boring and accounting boring, so I'm probably not going to ever make a lot of money. ↗

— Juliana Hatfield

#accounting #boring #care #ever #find

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

#back #dollar #every #goods #invested

I've met them down in the Cost and Accounting Department, clean-shaven and in white collars. They can't see a damn thing ridiculous about themselves... only about you. ↗

— Jean Shepherd

#accounting #collars #cost #damn #damn thing

While expanding market access for American industry, financial markets and farmers is critical, I believe it needs to be done responsibly, accounting for the treatment and protection of workers and the environment. ↗

— Mark Udall

#accounting #american #believe #critical #done

My philosophy is not a bean-counting, accounting 'look at this.' It is a philosophy that smaller government is better government, and government that is closer to the people is best of all. ↗

— John Bolton

#best #better #closer #government #look