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> You either hire programmers to make a custom financial suite so that people can input things and then the software does the relevant calculations

There's a reason Excel rules the world. And it's not because there aren't programmers capable of writing "custom financial suites".

But because Excel can handle most anything you can throw at it

> SAP is an example of that. They're not worth 300 billion for no reason

Yes. There's very little reason for SAP to be worth that much. SAP are infamous for their projects that are nearly always over time and over budget and still don't do what was intended.



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