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Re:Making a virtual machine in Google Sheets by SonOfLilit on Wednesday July 05, 2017 @10:42AM (#14702746)
I have met an accountant with no knowledge in programming that wrote an entire accounting suite in an excel spreadsheet, which he would copy for each client.
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Re:Making a virtual machine in Google Sheets by tosaket on Wednesday July 05, 2017 @05:17PM (#14706187)
You would be surprised how many accountants still do that. Accountants are a finicky bunch and they don't trust what a cloud accounting platform such as Xero/QB spit out, so they end up writing their own "custom software" in excel.
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Re:Making a virtual machine in Google Sheets by SonOfLilit on Wednesday July 05, 2017 @05:38PM (#14706337)
"Still"? I met him like three years ago. And the Israeli Xero/QB hasn't changed in like 20 years.
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