#counting

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. ↗

— James Buchan

#accounts #before #brown #came #cash

Mark-to-market accounting is like crack. Don't do it. ↗

— Andrew Fastow

#crack #like

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. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#forces #go #how #i #implications

The Macau casinos have a wonderful business, it's taking in money from Chinese businessmen elsewhere who send it through junky companies to casinos to gamble. The growth continues and they have basically western managers and western accounting, so we trust the numbers a little bit more. ↗

— James Chanos

#basically #bit #business #businessmen #casinos

Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own. ↗

— Harold Coffin

#blessings #counting #envy #fellow #instead

Our children are counting on us to provide two things: consistency and structure. Children need parents who say what they mean, mean what they say, and do what they say they are going to do. ↗

— Barbara Coloroso

#consistency #counting #going #mean #need

If you want an accounting of your worth, count your friends. ↗

— Merry Browne

#count #friends #want #worth #you

President Obama is casting his lot in the middle of a debate as old as America itself: Are we rugged individualists pulling ourselves up by the bootstraps? Or are we a nation of community, all connected and counting on one another? ↗

— Ron Fournier

#another #bootstraps #casting #community #connected

I don't really care about money. I find money boring and accounting boring, so I'm probably not going to ever make a lot of money. ↗

— Juliana Hatfield

#accounting #boring #care #ever #find

With over 1 billion users and counting worldwide, the Internet has quickly become a critical place for individuals, business communities and governments to share and distribute information. ↗

— Robin Hayes

#billion #business #communities #counting #critical