This is it right here. The magic of these horrible ERP systems is that auditors like them because they've dealt with them before. I've had a similar conversat

This is it right here. The magic of these horrible ERP systems is that auditors like them because they've dealt with them before. I've had a similar conversation about such with the owner of a company who wanted to go public on the horizon. Switching to SAP or Oracle is for this reason and this reason alone. It's such a shame that they are so awful and yet this somewhat tiny thing is the deciding factor. I'm sure many companies have fucked up their entire internal systems and, potentially, lost out on moving forward simply because they went with these beasts. Tech turnover has got to be huge when you move to something like this. It's probably not worth it in the end, really. Let the auditors bitch.