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Every business has two financial objectives: One is to make money; the other, more elusive, is to make money consistently.
Banking gives you a glimpse into what makes companies succeed and what makes companies fail.
Another thing he told his customers was that one of the great accounting unknowns of the modern age was how to value knowledge. It was an exciting field.
Actuaries are people who wanted to be accountants but didn't have the personality.
personal expenses
I understand quarterly billing, how the record companies run.
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.
Astute observers of corporate balance sheets are often the first to see business deterioration
You are asked to keep a ledger - a small notebook will do - of money in and money out. Counting brings clarity, and clarity is one of the first and finest fruits of prosperity.
Banking is a branch of the information business.
Business is not financial science, it's about trading.. buying and selling. It's about creating a product or service so good that people will pay for it.
I was always taught that book keeping was more relevant than book reading. The only thing worth reading was meant to be a balance sheet.
Balance Sheets are meaningless. Our accounting systems are still based on the assumption that 80% of costs are manual labor.
Finance is the art or science of managing revenues and resources for the best advantage of the manager
I happen to know a bit about banking.
Bakers bake bread, accountants manage accounts and entrepreneurs turn ideas into reality.
I'm a good learner. I can dig in. I knew nothing about mark-to-market accounting when I started the 'Enron' film.
You have wondered perhaps, why all real accountants wear hats? They are today's cowboys
The reaction of weak management to weak operations is often weak accounting.
CA means Challenge it, Achieve it, Loop it. I am a Chartered Accountant.
From the Olympian heights of an executive suite, in an atmosphere where your success is judged by the extent to which you can maximise profits, the overwhelming tendency must be to see people as units of production, as indices in your accountants' books.
Never take your eyes off the cash flow because it's the life blood of business.
If you don't have regular and accurate financial statements, you're driving your business 100 miles an hour down a one-way street the wrong way, at night, in the fog, without lights.
Never call an accountant a credit to his profession; a good accountant is a debit to his profession.
A thoroughbred business man cannot enter heartily upon the business of life without first looking into his accounts.
My business is the analytical framework.
Budget: a way of going broke methodically
A well-worn adage advises those who set out upon a great enterprise to count the cost, yet some of the greatest enterprises have succeeded because the people who undertook them did not count the cost.
Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money.
Basically, financial reporting is this sinking hole at the centre of journalism. You start by swimming around it until finally, reluctantly, you can't fight the pull anymore and you get sucked down the drain into the biz pages.
Financial analysts make a lot more than accountants.
Truth isn't in accounts but in account-books.
There are more ways than one to measure profits and losses.
You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
Business? It's quite simple; it's other people's money.
Just as a fisherman must watch the ebb and flow of the tides, an investor and businessperson must be keenly aware of the subtle shifts in cash flow.
Challenges Ahead? Huh! Who cares! I am a CA, Chartered Accountant.
Foundations in Personal Finance.
Your priorities, passions, goals, and fears are shown clearly in the flow of your money.
Most people who are successful don't keep their money. One of the rarest things in the world is to maintain success and integrity - the kinds of things that seem so easy just starting out. But that's the human predicament.
The philanthropist can never forget classes and callings. He says, with a modest swagger, 'I have invited twenty-five factory hands to tea.' If he said 'I have invited twenty-five chartered accountants to tea,' everyone would see the humour of so simple a classification.
I just kind of dive in if I think I can create something that will make a difference and then try to get the numbers to stack up after the event. So most of the things I've done I would not have done if I'd have asked the accountants to look at them before.
The art of creating value from intangible assets (Liebowitz 1999; Nonaka
I've never been good in the financial and business arenas. I handle the creative side of things.
Once we allow ourselves to be disobedient to the test of an accountant's profit, we have begun to change our civilization.
Managers and investors alike must understand that accounting numbers are the beginning, not the end, of business valuation.
Read Ben Graham and Phil Fisher read annual reports, but don't do equations with Greek letters in them.
risk, reward, control, and capital.
No matter what business you're in, business is business, and financing and money are critical. I would have made a lot fewer mistakes if I had more schooling in that area.
I never get the accountants in before I start up a business. It's done on gut feeling, especially if I can see that they are taking the mickey out of the consumer.
Finance as taught in universities is generally divided into three areas: (1) financial
management, (2) capital markets, and (3) investments.
The U.S. government uses cash accounting. That is illegal for any enterprise of any size in America except for the U.S. government. Every for-profit business, every not-for-profit business, every state and local government has to use real accounting except for Uncle Sam.
This bank-note world.
The thing I have discovered about working with personal finance is that the good news is that it is not rocket science. Personal finance is about 80 percent behavior. It is only about 20 percent head knowledge.
Marketing, shmarketing.
You work for the bank. After taxes, your next largest expense is usually your mortgage and credit card debt.
dipping into savings.
Cost Accounting is enemy number one of productivity.
I have a lot of trouble understanding all the detail of finance and administration - but if you combine intellectual and professional capacity with a social conscience, you can change things: countries, structures, economic models, colonial states.
I'm a big advocate of financial intelligence.
A stock certificate is not a tool, like a shovel, or a commodity, like a pound of cheese. What we sell a customer is not a share in a business, but a view of the Elysian Fields. A financier is a creative artist. Our function is to stimulate the imagination. We are poets!
Valuing a business is part art and part science.
What's both fascinating and challenging about investing is that the changing nature of business and finance means you can never have it all figured out.
Even before he came to power in 1997, Gordon Brown promised to change the accounts to parliament from simple litanies of cash in and cash out, to a more commercial system that took notice of the public property the departments were using. This system is known as resource accounting.
I'm a bean counter. Oh, I'm not an accountant, but I did spill pinto beans on the counter.
A lot of labels are hiring a lot more accountants than people that know music.
Psychology, trading tactics, and money management are the three pillars of success, but there is the fourth factor that ties them together. That factor - which integrates all others - is record-keeping.
FINANCE, n. The art or science of managing revenues and resources for the best advantage of the manager. The pronunciation of this word with the i long and the accent on the first syllable is one of America's most precious discoveries and possessions.
Dear Mother, I am getting on nicely in my work at the bank, and like it ... I want to find out something about the science of money while I am at it; it is an extraordinarily interesting subject ...
Monetary relations have penetrated into every nook and cranny of the world and into almost every aspect of social, even private life.
Opening Payment/ Purchase/ Finance Balance Credits Debits Charges Total Dues 5,983.03 5,983.03 7,708.88
Business: It is all about generating employment not about generating money.
I was vaguely attracted to both library science and accounting, for the way that these disciplines impose order on chaos.
I make money using my brains and lose money listening to my heart. But in the long run my books balance pretty well.
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.
If you look at the history of the American capital market, there's probably no innovation more important than the idea of generally accepted accountancy principles.
Mathematics is less related to accounting than it is to philosophy.
building the assets of your business.
As an accountant by trade, my work for blue chip companies took me all over the world.
By the end of 1978, we had 11 partners and six franchisees, we were operating in 22 cities, and we had about 6,000 clients. We had left Electronic Accounting Systems and were doing our own processing on our own computers.
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The banking business is no favorite of ours. When assets are twenty times equity - a common ratio in this industry - mistakes that involve only a small portion of assets can destroy a major portion of equity. And mistakes have been the rule rather than the exception at many major banks.
I've always hated the way Hollywood has portrayed accountants. They're always little nerd balls, wimpy, afraid of everything. Growing up with accountants, I don't see them that way.
It [1991 Federal budget] contains almost 190,000 accounts. At a rate of one per minute, eight hours a day, it would take over a year to reflect upon these!
My first accountant told me, "Evan, nobody cares about your money as much as you do.
The guys at Smartax are the most renowned Accountants in the world!
A business must have a conscience as well as a counting house.
I know everybody's income and what everybody earns,
And I carefully compare it with the income-tax returns
We are living through the most profound changes in the economy since the Industrial Revolution. Technology, globalization, and the accelerating pace of change have yielded chaotic markets, fierce competition, and unpredictable staff requirements.
If I wasn't singing, I'd probably be, probably an accountant.
I am just an Accountant who love God.
The three most dreaded words in the English language are 'negative cash flow'.
Creating a complete picture of a company financial health, by looking at periodic financial statements, is like turning a hamburger into a cow
You make a living from 8 to 5, but you make money from 5 to 8.
The company accountant is shy and retiring. He's shy a quarter of a million dollars. That's why he's retiring.
Mark-to-market accounting is like crack. Don't do it.
I treat business a bit like a computer game. I count money as points. I'm doing really well: making lots of money and lots of points.
I was a very bad accountant; I didn't care about money, golf or discovering fraud. After about a year I was sacked; then I went into teacher training.
We tend to focus on assets and forget about debts. Financial security requires facing up to the big picture: assets minus debts.
after cash or valuables.