Re:Accounting in 2016 – Still a manual and tedious process
by Havoc on Sunday April 03, 2016 @02:22PM
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> ones with the biggest incentive not to
Not really. The bank stuff (where they are REALLY still running ancient mainframes) is not changing because its a bureaucracy and they're super risk averse. And every year the conclusion is the same - limp along for another year. Plus there are cases where the tech is so old that its essentially a black box at this stage.
On the authors scale - they're are few people that have the necessary odd combination of skills (accounting & programming). And those that do don't spend their time writing SME software...they work on enterprise scale stuff.
As for no incentive to fix it - trust me nobody likes paper invoices. Not even bookkeepers. Everyone's life would be easier if there was a widely adopted standardized system in place.
Not really. The bank stuff (where they are REALLY still running ancient mainframes) is not changing because its a bureaucracy and they're super risk averse. And every year the conclusion is the same - limp along for another year. Plus there are cases where the tech is so old that its essentially a black box at this stage.
On the authors scale - they're are few people that have the necessary odd combination of skills (accounting & programming). And those that do don't spend their time writing SME software...they work on enterprise scale stuff.
As for no incentive to fix it - trust me nobody likes paper invoices. Not even bookkeepers. Everyone's life would be easier if there was a widely adopted standardized system in place.