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"It takes more to be a super accountant that you were a 'super accountant man' costume."

Lennon and McCartney.

The Hobby Store

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'He's written some great slogans and some great labels, but he's never written a great coupon.'

'In this class you will learn to apply the talents of creative writing to accounting.'

"Why do people think using big words is a bad thing?"

"Oh, that three billion dollars."

Bookkeeping Club

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

"Negotiations are at a crucial phase. We're desperately seeking more ways to say 'no'.''

'They call me the 'grandfather' of Hip-Hop!'

James Russell Lowell

Luca Pacioli: The Father of Accounting... The Man, The Math, The Ledger.

'What was your entry, 'Rob Peter to Pay Paul all about?'

"New from accounting, sir. Two and two is four again."

Leonard Cohen.

Colloso-Corp. Do you want our "generally accepted accounting practices" to show a profit or loss last quarter? (Published previously on Feb. 13, 2002.)

"I think it's just human nature to set up a private special purpose business entity to conceal balance sheet transaction in order to maximize an earnings forecast."

Algernon Swinburne

'Then it's agreed. It doesn't have to rhyme.'

'How much is two plus two?' - 'How much do you want it to be?'

"We audit at dawn."

'We've discovered the Cave of Missing Accounting Ledgers.'

Beet Poet

"I think the lighthouse keeper is having a little fun with us, sir."

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Today's lesson: the plague of darkness

"I'm pretty sure the word you've used to describe the new Scrabble isn't allowed."

"Our clients like their accountants to use their 'imagination', but most would still prefer their returns in a spreadsheet."

"I crunched the numbers and now they're so smooshed up I can't read them."

'I'd like to investigate your tax return.'

"...Thompson...there should be a Nobel Prize for accountancy."

"Crunch the numbers to dust so I can tell the auditor that the answers are blowing in the wind."

"The Bolsons are pleased to announce that their daughter, Naomi,is going to take another shot at marriage."