Cost Accounting Quotes

Accounting is the language of business.

You have to know accounting. It's the language of practical business life. It was a very useful thing to deliver to civilization. I've heard it came to civilization through Venice which of course was once the great commercial power in the Mediterranean. However, double entry bookkeeping was a hell of an invention.

Someone remind me why I didn’t want to be an accountant when I grew up,” Brock drawled. Niko chuckled. “Because accountants don’t get to make things go boom.

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.

The reaction of weak management to weak operations is often weak accounting.

Virtually all Federal accounting is still oriented toward preventing fraud and theft, not toward controlling costs.

There are more ways than one to measure profits and losses.

It is not easy to calculate the cost of land to build individual or community toilet systems. But we need to account for it when we total up the true cost of sanitation.

Almost all decisions based on cost accounting are utterly wrong.

Accounting for the most part, remains a legalistic and traditional practice, almost immune to self-criticism by scientific methods.

Accounting is a big subject and there are huge forces in play. The entire momentum of existing thinking and existing custom is in a direction that allows terrible follies to happen, and the terrible follies have terrible consequences.

I actually studied accounting in college. So I'm a CPA.

If you talk to a top accountant about his field of expertise, it's mind-boggling.

I have to say accounting almost killed me.