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->''"A CPA brought down UsefulNotes/AlCapone. There's a reason they want you to testify."''
-->-- '''Sam Axe''', ''Series/BurnNotice'', "False Flag"

->He was the Watch's secret weapon. There wasn't a bookkeeper in the city who would like to see a visit from A. E. Pessimal unless, of course, he was perfectly innocent -- although generally that could be ruled out because Mr and Mrs Pessimal's little boy could track an error all the way through the ledger and down into the cellar where the ''real'' books had been hidden.
-->-- '''Creator/TerryPratchett''', ''Literature/{{Snuff}}''

->''"You follow drugs and you find drug addicts and drug dealers. You follow the money and you don't know where the fuck it's gonna take you."''
-->-- '''Det. Lester Freamon''', ''Series/TheWire'', several episodes

->Hour after hour it went on, with a patience that at first terrified and then bored. It was the warfare of clerks, and it harried the enemy through many columns and files. [[GuileHero Moist]] could read words that weren't there but the clerks found the numbers that weren't there, or were there twice, or were there but going the wrong way. They didn't hurry. Peel away the lies, and the truth would emerge, naked and ashamed and with nowhere else to hide.
-->-- ''Literature/GoingPostal''

->'''Kevin:''' I was the [[IHateYouVampireDad Regent]]'s grandchilde and accountant! Yet when I informed her about the harsh financial realities of the mortal world, I fell swiftly out of favour.\\
'''Big D:''' Harsh realities such as...?\\
'''Kevin:''' [[SuddenlyShouting THAT YOU NEED TO PAY YOUR EMPLOYEES A LIVING WAGE]]! Mind controlling or blood bonding them only works until they run out of money! Then they starve to death. Or the taxmen runs out the numbers and find out yours make no sense. Everything must add up or you will be subtracted from the equation!
-->-- '''Big D and Kevin''', ''WebAnimation/HunterTheParenting'', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0aaQ9txETc The Probing of Kevin]]

->'''Mike:''' We've compiled a printout of every account that had a deposit made on the day in question in all of Liechtenstein's 16 banks.\\
'''Louis:''' Okay. Well, we are going to focus on, excuse me, ''these'' five banks.\\
'''Mike:''' How can you be sure?\\
'''Louis:''' Watch this. These four banks have a history of capitulating to subpoenas. So Mazlo would know. These six have U.S. corporate parents, which would expose their accounts to federal scrutiny. Once again, Mazlo would know. And then the one that he's got right there is low in reserves, therefore its solvency's in question, and there is no way in hell that Mazlo would take his stolen money and put it into some shaky bank.\\
'''Mike:''' So we can be sure.\\
'''Louis:''' Every person who embezzles money, they do it in their own way, but the one thing that they all have in common is that they never put all their eggs in one basket. So we are going to be looking at a combination of accounts. Across banks. Well, I mean, maybe across banks. Maybe the same bank. But we're definitely looking at more than one account.
-->-- ''Series/{{Suits}}''
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