https://www.isegoria.net/2017/09/psychology-beats-business-training/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Thu, 18 Jun 2026 14:35:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 https://www.isegoria.net/2017/09/psychology-beats-business-training/comment-page-1/#comment-2584564 Harper's Notes Thu, 28 Sep 2017 13:22:11 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=42439#comment-2584564 Not surprising. The difference between minimal book-keeping accounting skill and fluent skill doesn’t start making a big difference until you get to what is usually called medium sized businesses — ten or more employees and say if in retail around 3 million a year in gross sales. The difference between an average and highly-skilled accountant can make a big difference then, but as you go up to larger businesses it can increasingly make a huge difference. The surprising thing in my experience was how much even in companies in the tens and hundreds of millions of dollars in sales most of the accountants are mostly just crunching numbers with very little initiative in working the accounting systems to yield the most amount of useful information. It’s probably because the people with really high math ability generally tend to go into engineering and similar professions.

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