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I come from a family of accountants. But when I first went to college I chose IT Management which included both IT and Accounting subjects. I've worked on the IT Side for about a decade.

> The other major benefit, and arguably a larger one than the first, is giving me credibility when I talk to Customers' finance and accounting people.

I also have benefited a lot from the accounting subjects I took in college have also been an advantage in my professional career as I can 'speak the language' of my workplace's financial department.

> Finally, I'd argue bookkeeping and accounting is, arguably, the oldest "information technology" discipline in humanity. So much of the discipline springs from the history of bookkeeping becoming computerized ("automatic data processing"). It's a good background to working in IT to know about where it came from.

- Definitely. The software used at my family's the accounting office was older than any other I had used. This year I helped them migrate from an MSDOS Fox Pro 2 application to a newer app.

The MS-DOS It worked well, it is even still supported by the developer (!), but the work around required to make everything work in a Win 10 environment was too much of a hassle.

It felt like doing digital archeology when opening files created between 1989 and 1994 to see how data was stored. Even this newer app still uses an older tech stack: Visual Fox Pro 9. Accounting software seems to run in an alternate timeline.


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