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This is basic failure of accounting. If you are running a bank, you need to get things to match up exactly. In a lot of software engineering, Good Enough real
by danielweber 13y ago
This is basic failure of accounting. If you are running a bank, you need to get things to match up exactly.
In a lot of software engineering, Good Enough really is good enough. But a 5 cent discrepancy between what you actually have and what you thought you had need to be treated as seriously as a $5 million discrepancy.
- hga 13y agoBingo. While growing up in the '70s, my parents were often small businessmen, or running the business affairs of e.g. groups of doctors. More than one I can remember them spending quite a while tracking down a less than $1 discrepancy in the books they necessarily kept manually, for just that reason. (They moved to doing by computer in the '80s, of course.)