Comment by cortesoft
2 months ago
> This understanding in turn isn't stored anywhere other than the accountant's mental model of the entity he's doing the accounting for.
It doesn’t have to be this way, though. It isn’t impossible (for most use cases) to embed that mental model into your automation tools.
You the correct that it means you can’t have purely general purpose automation that will do all accounting work for every entity, but you could certainly create automation rules that cover everything (or nearly everything) for some particular entity.
> but you could certainly create automation rules that cover everything (or nearly everything) for some particular entity.
The fact that accountants still exist should tell you that you're mistaken.