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CA means Challenge it, Achieve it, Loop it. I am a Chartered Accountant.
In insurance, as elsewhere, the reaction of weak managements to weak operations is often weak accounting. ("It's difficult for an empty sack to stand upright.")
Lastly, they must be men of honest report, whose life and sound conversation are by their deeds perfectly tried and sufficiently witnessed of unto the people: and finally, they must be such as bear authority, and not be despised as rascal and vile knaves.
Staff or anyone else - you. So I hope whatever information
We're going after the possibilities of tax fraud, insurance fraud, securities fraud. We're going to look at this stuff very closely. We have the jurisdiction, we have the resources, and we have the will.
I have no use for bodyguards, but I have very specific use for two highly trained certified public accountants.
you people's departments
You can get a much better fee - I tell you as auditors quite frankly - it's much easier to get a great deal of money out of somebody who's on a down spiral into becoming MEST than it is to get money out of somebody who is going on an up spiral toward becoming theta.
It is essential to check the quality of work carried out or people let you down
Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.
He that staies does the businesse.
Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
[Examiners] spend their lives in discovering which pages of a text-book a man ought to read and which will not be likely to 'pay'.
There is a divergence between private and social accounting that the market fails to register. One essential task of law and government is to institute the necessary conditions.
A firm's income statement may be, likened to a bikini-what it reveals is interesting but what it conceals is vital.
There is no company - no corporation on earth that engages in accounting fraud to the extent the Imperial Federal Government of the United Sates does. Not many congressmen are willing to come forward with the details.
In the ideal scenario, consultants work for a board, and they're helping the board check on certain aspects of management. Their work is made public and transparent.
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.
ACCOUNTABILITY, n. The mother of caution.
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.
Performance standards and accountability applied to everyone.
Professionals knew that the most dangerous men in the world were accountants.
Lawyer: one who protects us against robbery by taking away the temptation.
The CEO era gave rise to the CFO (not certified flying object, as you might imagine, but chief financial officer) and, most recently, the CIO, chief investment officer, a nice boost for the bookkeeper you can't afford to give a raise ...
Every organization needs at least one person who knows what's going on, and why it's happening, and who's doing it.
I always say to my people, how come I'm always audited and friends of mine are never audited?
THE ADVENTURE OF THE ILLUSTRIOUS CLIENT
Did you hear about the accountant who became am embezzler? He ran away with the accounts payable!
My accountant worships me because I'm so cautious with my money.
Perhaps nothing in our society is more needed for those in positions of authority than accountability. Too often those with authority are able (and willing) to surround themselves with people who support their decisions without question.
Bankers, they're not harmed by their mistakes. They benefit when things go right, and the society pays the price.
I know everybody's income and what everybody earns,
And I carefully compare it with the income-tax returns
The consensus beings that called themselves the Auditors did not believe in anything, except possibly immortality. And the way to be immortal, they knew, was to avoid living.
When we ask bureaucrats to identify who is responsible for fixing anything, they reassure us that there are 'procedures in place.'
A business must have a conscience as well as a counting house.
Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list
the common seed within which all these fabulous beings slumber in embryo is taxation.
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.
Business analysts must have a thick skin: thick enough to take feedback on documents and receive unexpected answers to questions!
Accounting incomes were reduced by discrepancy [ but] the net amount paid by lawyers for lawyerly discrepancy is close to zippo. In this case, the goddess of justice was blind.
Sociologists are those academic accountants who think that truth can be shaken from an abacus.
If you want to know who is responsible for anything, as who benefits from it.
Who's going to manage (health savings accounts)?. It's not going to be your local accountant, it's going to be Fidelity.
I've been audited for many, many years in a row, which I think is unfair, but that's the way it is.
I'm a big proponent of accountability.
Liar: A lawyer with a roving commission.
General consultant to mankind.
Earnings can be pliable as putty when a charlatan heads the company reporting them.
Day in and day out, your tax accountant can make or lose you more money than any single person in your life, with the possible exception of your kids
If you managed a baseball team, would you listen more closely to the team accountant or the director of player personnel?
Accounting is possibly the most confusing, boring subject in the world, but if you want to be rich long-term, it could be the most important subject.
The ultimate arbiters of the models of banking and the management of banking are the investors. It's the shareholders.
But who guards the guardians?
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.
There are three kinds of companies: those who make things happen; those who watch things happen; and those who wonder what's happened. - Anonymous
The taxpayers deserve accountability.
It is telling that the first recorded name in history belongs to an accountant, rather than a prophet, a poet or a great conqueror.1
Probably the best advice I ever got in my life was from the head of the accounting department, Mr. Hutchinson, I believe at the Glidden Company in Chicago, and he told me, 'You really aren't cut out for accounting.'
If anything is evident about people who manage money, it is that the task attracts a very low level of talent, one that is protected in its highly imperfect profession by the mystery that is thought to enfold the subject of economics in general and of money in particular.
Professional accountability is a good thing. Without it, excellence is merely a pipe dream and even average performance isn't a realistic expectation.
CA means Chakra of Ambitions. I am a Chartered Accountant.
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Who supervises the supervisors themselves?
You have more independent eyes scrutinizing the decision-making and financial statements of companies.
Challenges Ahead? Huh! Who cares! I am a CA, Chartered Accountant.
Agents of disruption, subversion, sabotage and disinformation tunnelers and smugglers, listeners and forgers, trainers and recruiters and talent spotters and couriers and watchers and seducers, assassins and balloonists, lip readers and disguise artists.
Business. They spend their lives minding someone else's business and making that person rich.
I'm a person who promotes the concept of accountability to a great extent, and I've spoken in the Parliament and reinforced the need for accountability.
We need, first of all, for there to be accountability, for there to be somebody who is responsible for enforcing standards and holding people's feet to the fire.
official investigation.
Bankers, nepotists, contracts and talkies: on four fingers one may count the leeches which have sucked a young and vigorous industry into paresis.
The IRS! They're like the Mafia, they can take anything they want!
The Management of money is, in much, the management of self. If heaven allotted to each man seven guardian angels, five of them, at least, would be found night and day hovering over his pockets.
When they say accountability, they mean surveillance and standardization.
The comptroller of New York City ought to have all the characteristics of a major corporation's CFO - quiet rigor, obsessive care for detail, incorruptible judgment, an ability to work assiduously behind the scenes with the key stakeholders.
My expertise was in public finance, particularly corporate taxation, since I had worked at the US Treasury.
What cruel mistakes are sometimes made by benevolent men and women in matters of business about which they can know nothing and think they know a great deal.
No,"Ito said gently, "we will not be needing soldiers. Accountants will do nicely."
Mutsuhito frowned. "How does one storm a castle with accountants ?"
"One buys it, sir.
Great accountability is nothing more and nothing less than having the courage to demand that the people who work for you use their strengths in a responsible way. Learning
I just wanted to be a businessman, and to me, the best way to understand business was to be an accountant.
People in powerful positions come under scrutiny, and sometimes they get in trouble for things that their underlings did.
A lot of labels are hiring a lot more accountants than people that know music.
Our staff not only received the reports from these agencies, they examined them. They questioned them.
Over the long haul of life on this planet, it is the ecologists, and not the bookkeepers of business, who are the ultimate accountants.
CHAPTER XLV THE TRUSTY AGENT
In the corporate world, if you have analysts, due diligence, and no horse sense, you've just described hell.
The most important thing is that there is clear reporting structure and everyone knows what it is.
Well, we want to make sure there's not securities fraud.
Responsibility without power, the fate of the secretary through the ages.
I'm a bean counter. Oh, I'm not an accountant, but I did spill pinto beans on the counter.
They are people who are not afraid of making mistakes and who do, therefore, make mistakes, which is why their work often goes unrecognised.
The public are entitled to have an absolute guarantee of the financial probity and integrity of their elected representatives, their officials and above all of Ministers. They need to know that they are under financial obligations to nobody.
From the Balance sheet of humanity, to the Profit & Loss account of emotions, I am all in good books. I am a Chartered Accountant.
The taxpayer: That's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.
Those who think must govern those that toil.
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!
The directors you trust the most are the ones, when you ask them a question, they've got the guts to say, 'I don't know.'
There is a strong movement towards increased accountability for software developers and software development organizations.
Why is an accountant who knows the regulation and codes and takes advantage of tax loopholes that save you thousands of dollars each year good, But SEO's who take advantages of loopholes and flaws in Google's algorithm to bring you traffic that makes you thousands of dollars bad?
People don't pay attention. And then one day there's an accounting. And after that, nothing is the same.
Astute observers of corporate balance sheets are often the first to see business deterioration