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If an alien with an accounting degree touched down in America, it might conclude that we're a weird cult that spends 11 months living frugally and four crazy weeks buying tons of stuff we don't need. It wouldn't be entirely wrong, either.

~Adam Davidson

Topics: Accounting Alien America Buying Conclude Crazy Cult Degree Down Either Entirely Four Living Might Months Need Stuff Tons Touched Weeks Weird Wrong

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Accounting rules give financial institutions flexibility about when they choose to recognize venture capital profits.

~Alex Berenson

Topics: About Accounting Capital Choose Financial Flexibility Give Institutions Profits Recognize Rules Venture Venture Capital

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Enron had already collapsed and filed for bankruptcy protection by the beginning of 2002. But despite complaints from short sellers that corporations had used accounting gimmickry to inflate their profits, many investors thought the crisis at Enron was an isolated case.

~Alex Berenson

Topics: Accounting Bankruptcy Beginning Case Collapsed Complaints Corporations Crisis Despite Enron Had Inflate Investors Isolated Many Profits Protection Sellers Short Thought Used

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I'm a good learner. I can dig in. I knew nothing about mark-to-market accounting when I started the 'Enron' film.

~Alex Gibney

Topics: About Accounting Dig Enron Film Good Knew Learner Nothing Started I Can

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Developing safe products for people around the world will mean accounting for a much wider variety of devices, networks, infrastructure, and political environments.

~Alex Stamos

Topics: Accounting Around Developing Devices Environments Infrastructure Mean Much Networks People Political Products Safe Variety Wider Will World

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With demands for special education or standardized test prep being shouted in their ears, public schools can't always hear a parent when he says: 'I want my child to be able to write contracts in Spanish,' or, 'I want my child to shake hands firmly,' or, 'I want my child to study statistics and accounting, not calculus.'

~Amity Shlaes

Topics: Able Accounting Always Being Calculus Child Contracts Demands Ears Education Firmly Hands He Hear Parent Prep Public Public Schools Says Schools Shake Spanish Special Special Education Standardized Statistics Study Test Want Write

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I don't let it bother me too much if someone doesn't like me. I just figure there's no accounting for taste. It's not me, it's my acting. It's like if someone doesn't like someone's food, they just don't like my acting.

~Anna Chlumsky

Topics: Accounting Acting Bother Figure Food Just Like Me Much Someone Taste Too Too Much

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And just remember, every dollar we spend on outsourcing is spent on U.S. goods or invested back in the U.S. market. That's accounting.

~Arthur Laffer

Topics: Accounting Back Dollar Every Goods Invested Just Market Outsourcing Remember Spend Spent

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Although more than 500 million maritime containers move around the world each year, accounting for 90 per cent of international trade, only 2 per cent are inspected. Strengthening customs and immigration systems is essential.

~Ban Ki-Moon

Topics: Accounting Although Around Cent Customs Each Each Year Essential Immigration International International Trade Maritime Million More Move Only Per Strengthening Systems Than Trade World Year

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In the tradition of national income accounting, economic policymakers have typically focused on variables such as income, wealth, and consumption.

~Ben Bernanke

Topics: Accounting Consumption Economic Focused Income National Policymakers Tradition Variables Wealth

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