24 Aug
2011
24 Aug
'11
11:48 p.m.
On 08/25/2011 12:47 AM, TeoZ wrote:
Odd, I figured they all had spreadsheets for that stuff, must be they
need a paper record of their calcs and those printing calc rolls are
easy to stuff into record folders?
Sometimes (heck, ALL the time) they just need to add up a column of
numbers. A spreadsheet is pretty clumsy for that.
I have a good friend who is an accountant. I've seen her do this
many times, then refer back to the printed tape on occasion during the
course of a job. And she's a very "high-tech" accountant, too.
Those tools do still have legitimate places.
Who uses a printing calculator these days?
Accountants. Damn near all of them. Back in college some of the MBA types had financial
calculators to
figure out interest and how much to overcharge people. These days kids
seem to be required to have graphing calculators in grade school, I
guess that is because they can barely print their own names let alone
draw on paper.
Too true.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL