Accounting is downstream of business processes that have been mismodelled for decades. The antipattern is overloading the successive lifecycle stages of a business object onto a single database table, and distinguishing them with a status code or by whether or not certain "optional" columns have been populated.
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.
Accounting is downstream of business processes that have been mismodelled for decades. The antipattern is overloading the successive lifecycle stages of a business object onto a single database table, and distinguishing them with a status code or by whether or not certain "optional" columns have been populated.
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.