By David E. Hunt (Davidcpa) on Thursday, October 18, 2001 - 02:13 pm:
I admit that this is a lame attempt by the PICPA to get people to consider the CPA profession, but we deserve better than,
Quote:...but can't scientists just make robots that can do our accounting for us?
By Rob_Merritt on Thursday, October 18, 2001 - 02:21 pm:
Ofcourse on the other hand, Quicken/TurboTax/etc will not lie to the IRS to save their own ass either.
By David E. Hunt (Davidcpa) on Thursday, October 18, 2001 - 02:41 pm:
Quote:Ofcourse on the other hand, Quicken/TurboTax/etc will not lie to the IRS to save their own ass either.
By Rob on Thursday, October 18, 2001 - 04:01 pm:
Geesh, I don't want to be replaced, but I could use a handy dandy robot to prepare some of these lead sheets. I could sneak away and get some WWIIonline in. :)
Seriously, as long as people are making the journal entries, it will take people to figure out their screwey entries.
By Mark Asher on Thursday, October 18, 2001 - 04:31 pm:
Heh -- sorry about that. I wish I had a robot that could play some of the lame games I have to write about now and then.
They do have robotic lawnmowers now.
By Alan Au (Itsatrap) on Thursday, October 18, 2001 - 04:41 pm:
Reminds of the quip we used to toss around in college:
Q: Hey, want to do my problem set for me?
A: Sure, but do you want it done correctly?
I don't know what goes into lead sheets, but how hard would it be to whip up a PERL script to take care of formatting issues?
- Alan