Accounting Has Only Crud Apis
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The article argues that accounting systems are limited by their reliance on CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) APIs, and the discussion highlights the underlying issues with business process modeling and data representation.
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I hope it is immediately obvious why that gives accounting bad inputs.
The crisis that accounting is facing is the impending failure of their ability to shift blame for bad inputs.
Both present challenges, but better inputs don't help without a better model for business objects (as I see it)?