Financial Oversight Pillows

"I just got another caller saying his taxes are none of my business."

'Now that I have your attention...'

Will work for ETFs

It's okay Mom! As a broker, I'm under supervision of the SEC!

"As the executor for your mother's estate, let me say that she loved each of you, but she also loved Las Vegas."

A Day In The Kitchen

'If sales don't improve incrementally... our business outlook will change excrementally...'

Businessman sees door sign 'Department of Mismanagement and Overbudget'.

'I'm afraid the cuts are beginning to bite!'

"Ahh... don't you just LOVE that new, re-organized-under-bankruptcy-protection smell?"

'Honestly Bob, it's not that bad. If you can make as much next year as you did this year you'll be able to pay off your outstanding taxes for last year. That'll just leave the interest, the tax for this year and... my fees.'

Why do you need so many computers?

'I'd put it on the back burner, but the stove's been repossessed.'

'I'm going to have to give up drinking and drugs when I leave uni - to pay off my bank loan.'

'When I turned 18 something started happening to me every month. I started receiving a credit card bill.'

'OK. Lose weight, stop smoking, get fit, get a better job, spend more time with the kids, cut back on the booze, be better with money and buy a speed boat.'

"At the end of the day Simon, money talks!"

"The Nominees"

Legalish

Profits - "On the positive side, our company has never been touched by any scandal connected with insider trading."

Man watches sales chart drop through the floor.

'Our fund lost millions, but the good news is our management fees are not based on performance.'

"Grandpa, tell us again about pensions!"

"Damn it, name a figure, name a figure."

'The sick economy isn't why J.B.has cut back on spending. He always was a tightwad.'

"I've brought companies back from the brink of disaster before Phil, but to bring one back from the dead? I'm still patting myself on the back over that one!"

"This is Thompson, he has a black belt in budget control."

Illustration on the problem of money that is given to charities ending up in the hands of governments.

"Hi, I'm Bob Darrel. I'm here to perform the audit of your books. Don't mind the vultures. They follow me everywhere."

'Does he do anything besides watch the money?'

"Actually, sir, I’ve found that the shortest distance between two points is money."

"Normally after 365 years we'd be looking at a better figure, but not when you've only worked one day a year!"

A Balanced budget.

'The Buck (after taxes) Stops Here.'

Those who fail to learn from the past will be forced to relive it.