On a long enough curve, everything is a commodity. Reading, writing, and arithmetic are all commodity, undifferentiated work that cost time. You don't have to b

On a long enough curve, everything is a commodity. Reading, writing, and arithmetic are all commodity, undifferentiated work that cost time. You don't have to be your own bookkeeper to have basic bookkeeping and accounting literacy - which is something worth spending some time learning since it is the lingua franca of business. If you're a business were Sarbanes Oxley applies and you're a C-level exec, you have legal liability for the financial statements you're signing. Probably not a waste to have a cursory understanding of what you're singing and how those accounts work with one another.