Accounting Quotes

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Regarding his spat with New Line: "We have a great many friends at New Line and utmost respect for the risk they took with us and it hurts to be hit with the level of venom directed at us from individuals in that company. It`s been a lot more nasty behind the scenes than what`s been made public. It`s just an accounting dispute at the end of the day, but it makes you wonder what they have to hide."

- Peter Jackson

I`m an optimist. I hope if a movie`s good that it will be a success, but as we know, that`s not always true, just because of popular taste, advertising, distribution patterns, there`s lots of reasons. When something doesn`t do better than it deserves to in your mind, it`s pretty transparent, you usually know why. Is that a comfort? Yes, because it`s logical. Does it make you happy? No, because if you think a movie is beautiful or interesting, you want to share it. It`s really true; there`s no accounting for taste. Sometimes you make very interesting movies that aren`t meant for everybody. But this is a capitalist society, so everything conspires to put value on whether it sells or not. While we have a very strong popular culture, the roots of our culture are very shallow, and we put emphasis on how a movie does as far as the box office goes. Many years ago, it would have been vulgar to print box-office grosses in the paper. Now The New York Times does it, and it`s the big story for people interested in arts and entertainment on Monday. Which is why emphasis has shifted away from filmmakers and fallen on movie stars and business people.

- Willem Dafoe

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

- David Letterman

Home base is the support system where we have a culinary team, my own writers because of the shows and the books and stuff, we have a culinary team of about six people. Marketing, public relations, accounting and all that sort of stuff.

- Emeril Lagasse

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

In the corporate world, sometimes things aren`t exactly black and white when it comes to accounting procedures.

- George W. Bush

When asked if she made a profit from the Wonder Woman dolls, "I think that you`re probably familiar with a problem in Hollywood, and that is that they market you and they use you. They did a mask of my face and put it on the doll and they put my name on for the first run of it. And then they took my name off and said they didn`t have to pay me anymore. So it`s the kind of thing that you can be used SO much in this industry. I make nothing. I don`t even make anything from the reruns. Don`t ever settle for net profits. It`s called `Creative Accounting`."

- Lynda Carter

There are no accounting issues, no trading issues, no reserve issues, no previously unknown problem issues.

- Kenneth Lay

Investors looked to KPMG for tax advice. They looked to us as an investment adviser to execute a variety of stock and option transactions, We got out of the business of working with large accounting firms more than five years ago.

- Michael Gross

It is clear that integration to `back-office` systems such as accounting or service management applications is an important aspect of providing end-to- end mobilization for field service organizations. With an easy to implement integration path via SOAP for EService, we are able to provide the considerable benefits of EService while also allowing our customers to use their `tried and proven` business management applications.

- Steve Davis

We have criticized these, but the real problem, the really irrational part of what is proposed, is the material on internal accounting control.

- William Boyd

Big 5 Sporting Goods continues to be hampered by distribution center inefficiencies and higher accounting/auditing costs. It remains unclear when distribution center problems will be corrected.

- Rick Nelson

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.

- Jackie Miller

They were all excited and eager to work. We even found a worker with three to four years of candy-making experience and one with a strong accounting background, ... We`re now working out some transportation arrangements to get them to and from Camp Williams to their job sites.

- David Newman

In theory, a merger between two big vendors means retailers would be dealing eventually with one accounting unit and one distribution unit rather than a different set of units for both companies.

- Tom Doyle

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

- Sharon Miller

There are no new cash payments or obligations here. This is an accounting reflection of the deal they announced on Monday. It`s all by the books.

- Marc Cohen

We are pleased to report that all outstanding issues involving the SEC`s financial review, as well as the accounting issues related to DFG, have now been resolved, ... Today`s earnings release brings this matter to a close and we now look forward to proceeding with the Tyson transaction.

- Robert Peterson

I don`t know technology and engineering. I don`t know accounting.

- Al Pound

I know what I don`t know. To this day, I don`t know technology, and I don`t know finance or accounting.

- Al Pound

In the business world, allegations of accounting irregularities is tantamount to yelling fire in a crowded theater, except, today, in our Internet world, instead of people running for the exit signs, they just push the button on their computer.

- Ali Naimi

This Department of Treasury, run by this administration, using the same tried and true accounting methods that every business in America uses, cast new light on the fiscal severity that our Nation is facing, what some would call a mess.

- Alice Besterman

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.

- Amanda Anderson

conducted with rigor and in full accord with the standards of (the accounting) profession.

- Andy Brunner

I think in a couple of weeks, the question of all these bad write-offs will be behind us because everybody is going to throw in the towel on bad accounting,

- Anjali Sharma

(And finally, from the department of) Be Careful What You Say on TV Because When You`re Caught in a Massive Accounting Scandal They`ll Dredge Up the Tape, ... I think that overall investor confidence is increasing every day.

- Ann DiPierro

Those things don`t exist now. I think right now they`re much more transparent in their accounting for their economy.

- Anthony Gagliardi

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

- Anthony Miziko

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.

- Art Ayre

They`re hiring consultants. They`re hiring accounting firms. They`re buying software. Everything is changing.

- Ashlea Williams

Our top priority is to fix our financial controls and leave accounting issues behind us.

- Atsuo Ito

There is something precious in our being mysteries to ourselves, in our being unable ever to see through even the person who is closest to our heart and to reckon with him as though he were a logical proposition or a problem in accounting

- Barb Fleisner

There is no accounting for taste and no taste for accounting.

- Kevin Byrne