“Make me a presentation showing sales for this quarter. Make no mistakes”

Financial software is one of those things that companies just don’t update for decades. It wouldn’t surprise me at all if somebody had started handing off a bunch of their payroll or accounting reporting to an AI instead of just updating to a newer software with more features.

I have worked in regulated industries for a long time. I guess it cannot be properly automated because laws change all the time (like every other month because some politician got a stupid idea and you have to start from scratch once again). That would be why we have companies dedicated to handling finances, taxes, and laws.

My understanding is that the fuckery of accounting becomes more an art that can't be automated when you want to manipulate the perceived value of your org. Or skimp on taxes legally