Accounting Profession Quotes

My father was a trained accountant, a BCom from Sydenham College and a self-taught violinist. In the 1920s, when he was in his teens, he heard a great violinist, Jascha Heifetz, and he was so inspired listening to him that he bought himself a violin, and with a little help from an Italian teacher, he learned to play it.

Financial analysts make a lot more than accountants.

It is well known that you can only manage what you measure, and as this is the job of professional accountants, it means they have huge influence on companies' governance.

I had the opportunity to go to law school, and my dad, who was an accountant, couldn't believe I wanted to walk away from that and start cooking.

I would argue that a majority of the horrors we face would not have happened if the accounting profession developed and enforced better accounting.

I think Mum's got a second cousin who's an accountant, but we never talk about him.

I had a fairly enlightened dad, though if you looked at his resume, it might not seem that way. He was a chartered accountant for Price Waterhouse. He was strict, and we had a very ordered life. To this day, I am the least materialistic person I know, because my father didn't raise me to just go out and buy this or that car.

A lot of the younger Indian generation are either IT geniuses or doctors - the number of doctors I've seen in L.A. who are Indian is just crazy. So it is a very common thing. Or an accountant! That again is a very, very big thing.

My mom works at an accounting firm; my dad's a math teacher.

I actually studied accounting in college. So I'm a CPA.

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.

People recognize me once in a while and appreciate the work. It gets a little embarrassing, but it's good. If you work as an accountant, you don't have people coming up to you in the streets saying, 'Hey, great job on tax statements!'

A whole generation of people that didn't know me from 'SNL' recognize me from 'Weeds' now. People recognize me once in a while and appreciate the work. It gets a little embarrassing but it's good. If you work as an accountant, you don't have people coming up to you in the streets saying, 'Hey, great job on tax statements!'

I am a graduate in business management with specialisation in finance, and I love accounts!

Americans like to make money; Canadians like to audit it. I know no other country where accountants have a higher social and moral status.

I soon knew what CPA meant- Can’t Produce Anything

You have wondered, perhaps, why all real accountants wear hats? They are today's cowboys. As will you be. Riding the American range. Riding herd on the unending torrent of financial data. The eddies, cataracts, arranged variations, fractious minutiae. You order the data, shepherd it, direct its flow, lead it where it's needed ... You deal in facts, gentlemen, for which there has been a market since man first crept from the primeval slurry.

Never call an accountant a credit to his profession; a good accountant is a debit to his profession.

I just wanted to be a businessman, and to me, the best way to understand business was to be an accountant.

Most accountants are strange - let's be honest.

How many married couples do you know who met over accounting books in a Starbucks?

George Bernard Shaw writes like a Pakistani who has learned English when he was twelve years old in order to become an accountant.

It is not the most pleasant employment to spend eight hours a day in a counting house.