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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We have the most crude accounting tools. It's tragic because our accounts and our national arithmetic doesn't tell us the things that we need to know.
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.
Capital isn't this pile of money sitting somewhere; it's an accounting construct.
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.
It's really amazing that in the age of unbelief, as a smart man called it, there isn't even more fraud. After all, with no God, there's no one to ever call you to account, and no accounting at all if you can get away with it.
I have gone to great lengths, and in some cases beyond what is required by the reporting guidelines to ensure all of my filings are beyond reproach, by hiring an independent third-party accounting firm to review and audit all of my previous annual financial disclosures.
When it comes to tackling your financial goals, whatever they might be, there's no time like the present.
My accountant worships me because I'm so cautious with my money.