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This is really cool! I constantly hear people complaining about accountants creating problems by not understanding how "things really work" so it would be grea

• cascom 5y ago
  haha, few things from my experience: 1)its terrifying how many people in c-suite roles (including purported CFOs and CEOs), and commercial/sales/product development roles don't actually understand accounting and finance basics. 2) the number of bookkeepers that pretend to be real accountants, but really they are just power users of a given accounting system 3) the massive miscommunication that takes place when two people that don't know what they are talking about try to tell the other what to do.
• acjohnson55 5y ago
  That's like a baseball player telling a Newtonian physicist that they don't understand how things really work. In some sense they're right, in that there are higher level details that are hard to capture in the math, and technically, the math does not describe an even lower level of reality. But there's still a lot that someone operating from an intuitive understanding can learn from someone who brings an analytical framework.