Balance Sheets Quotes
Business lines on balance sheets, costs, and long-term value
This page collects quotes on balance sheets, from questions about hidden environmental costs to warnings about growing too large too fast. For more, browse our accounting quotes collection.
Throughout the industrial era, economists considered manufactured capital - money, factories, etc. - the principal factor in industrial production, and perceived natural capital as a marginal contributor. The exclusion of natural capital from balance sheets was an understandable omission. There...
It sounds extraordinary but it's a fact that balance sheets can make fascinating reading.
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It is economically irrational to exclude large environmental costs from the balance sheets of the producers and the consumers. You are only kidding yourself if you export those costs on to society as a whole.
Legislative reforms in the 1990s and the public/private structure led managements to expand the GSEs' balance sheets to enormous size, underpinned by wafer-thin slivers of capital, driving high shareholder returns and very high compensation for management.
Accounting Quotes
It is important that global business leaders understand that they need to think beyond their quarterly balance sheets and see what it is that they are creating.
There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can read balance sheets cannot write.
Accounting does not make corporate earnings or balance sheets more volatile. Accounting just increases the transparency of volatility in earnings.
Creating jobs for your country's workers is about much more than ensuring that the balance sheets of your country's companies are strong, or stimulating domestic demand. It is about figuring out how your country's workers fit into the global economy.
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.
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Deflation can be particularly dangerous when a financial system is shaky, with household and corporate balance sheets in poor shape and banks undercapitalized and heavily burdened with bad loans.
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