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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.

Most accountants are strange - let's be honest.

There is nothing wrong with good accounting, except that it does not necessarily lead to good science.

The reality is that a person who has always struggled with numbers is unlikely to be a great accountant or statistician.

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

I am the despair of my accountant; I am the plastic bags of receipts.

The fact is that one of the earliest lessons I learned in business was that balance sheets and income statements are fiction, cash flow is reality.

Balanced budget requirements seem more likely to produce accounting ingenuity than genuinely balanced budgets.

I know what I don't know. To this day, I don't know technology, and I don't know finance or accounting.

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