They really need to hire more accountants to help design the programming.

Accountants are nit picky people who tend to want to balance everything to the penny and to follow a transaction through from initiation to where it falls on the Leger and cash flow statement (they are the world's greatest de-buggers and forensic tracers). Computer programers tend to be more freewheeling problem solvers: Great at quick fixes, but not detailed enough to develop the solutions businesses really need/demand come audit time.

Software companies need to somehow bring the two together in a way that will produce better solutions. So much of the enterprise software that is out there is marketed as "solve's all", but in the end it is cumbersome, overly complex for routine/simple tasks, and extreemly weak at the more complex functions...And the transaction tracability is crap...It almost makes you think the stuff is designed chaos (i.e. designed to generate furure consulting revenues for the the software company rather than to actually perform well). In short, it is anything but user freindly.

I can't wait to retire so I don't have to deal with it any more!

It is shit...And it is very expensive shit to boot.

Look out for Microsoft. I think that in time, they will improve thier Great Plains software to a point where only the largest businesses will want or need anything that is more capable. (And even with that said, Great Plains still sucks too! There is huge room for improvement in this area).

Scott Evil