I hope some of you guys realize that paper AGES.
Paper is actually less resistant to alteration in the intermediate term. Really slick guys who thought that the actually paper did not matter found out the hard way.
I guess that in Texas companies always liked to make fake invoices. A photocopy of a fake invoice or PDF of a fake invoice is less likely to give it away. It was predominant in fraud out there.
I have several DB programs. We have a custom DB program which uses SQL, which has been forced upon us as well. Excel actually has more functionality and the users are not behind the 8 ball. The DB program is totally useless and is actually limited to 25 columns in its special file format. It has 26 columns, but requires the 26th for idiot retention.
Who ever programed this debacle, if you are out here. Let me know.
The idea that there is no "data mining" is irrelevant. The accountant is the data miner. I know that many programmers do not even understand some of the accounting issues that happen when it is explained to them. I think that perhaps the top 5% of the programmers could make a switch to be accountants of below average quality.