We need more bean counters and fewer accountant tricksters acting like investment bankers and financial engineers.
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Bean Counters: The Battle For The Soul of American Business, published earlier this year.
There was strong evidence it would work from the start, but the limited market worried company bean counters.
The new corporate leaders will no longer be pen pushers and bean counters.
The report can be accessed over the Internet, letting company bean counters identify users by name and track their calling patterns.
He hired 200 accountants on top of the 150 in-house bean counters.
Who should a business listen to, the bean counters and their numbers, or the coders heartfelt belief that they have a hit?
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Everyone acknowledges that high technology is immensely expanding productivity, but bean counters haven't figured out in this service-cum-high-tech economy how to measure that.
The only of the four biggest banks with true cost-control credibility is Wells Fargo, home to a long line of maniacal bean counters.
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"We need to have a clear strategy before the bean counters are let loose with their pens, with all due respect to accountants, " he said.
Petersburg Times and its owner, the Poynter Institute for Media Studies, provide a shining example of how a newspaper can be run without corporate bean counters ruling the day.
Heart stents, the tiny metal scaffolds used to prop open arteries, certainly could be subject to medical bean counters, as this front page Wall Street Journal story ably documents.
He himself set up a series of front companies (Main Street Toys and Midtown Muscle among them), submitted paperwork to O'Quinn's bean counters for a sum, say, 30% higher, pocketing the spread.
The bean counters at TrueCar.com have provided us with its list of fabulous flops for 2011, models that, for one reason or another, have suffered the most precipitous sales drops over the past year (not counting low-volume or discontinued models).
The bean counters like the fact that you can write an application once and then, with little expense and effort, modify it to run on a whole universe of Microsoft systems from the corporate network level (Windows NT) down to a single set-top box (Windows CE).
And I think -- and the President said this to the AMA -- that these are individuals that have spent a lot of time in school, racked up a lot of debt, because they want to practice medicine, not because they want to be administrators or bean counters or paper pushers -- they want to be healers.
When the engineers and bean-counters have come to an agreement, the lawyers step in.
Yet now those self-same businessmen are voicing precisely the opposite complaint: too few bean-counters, not too many.
Management of these companies often went from geologists to bean-counters, who were far more concerned with squeezing out profits.
The bean-counters denied they had done anything wrong and alleged that the consultants had been planning to split all along.
Beltway statisticians, and most economist bean-counters, still can't measure the productivity resulting from the microchip and the explosion in communications bandwidth.
Greedy authors, greedy agents, brainless book chains with their Vivaldi-riddle espresso bars, publishers owned by metallurgy conglomerates, operated by glacially cold bean-counters in Geneva.
Every schoolchild in Silicon Valley knows the sad story of how nice Steve Jobs helped to found Apple Computer, only for the evil bean-counters to evict him nine years later (now, of course, he's back).
Good Morning, official statisticians and GDP bean-counters.
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On the brink of offering up Facebook, with its hundreds of millions of users, to stockholders, even Zuckerberg's controlling interest in the company (a 57% share of voting rights, according to reports) could soon need to be checked by the types of lawyers, bean-counters and other business types whose jobs involve looking out for a company's bottom line.
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