Exit Cost Of Financial System

A few years ago, some accounting journals often had a classic column: Accounting calligraphy, teaching how to write beautiful handwriting, on the books, on the vouchers.

At that time, all accounting operations, vouchers, account books, statements and reports were almost entirely hand-made. Only those important or exquisite items were typed by the typist.

In the age of manual accounts, paper is made.

Accounting computerization is really a revolution.

Two weeks to calculate the entire factory salary, three days even if it comes out, several accountants hold the checklist for checking the rounded corners, and only need to press the button to check the balance relationship. As for the account book, there is no need to take care of every day, prevent fire and dampproof, but print it at the end of the year.

After the popularity of electronic accounts, almost no one missed the manual account.

But slowly and conveniently, accountants suddenly found that once the electricity was cut off, they could not work. No matter at the end of the month or at the end of the year, the original obedient computers began to slow down from time to time, and occasionally crashed. They often needed to deal with hardware and IT maintainers, and the support of experts was often not free. Thus, the cost of accounting work really increased, and it was no longer necessary to spend money on paper and pen.

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Not only did the upgraded new system require huge cost support, but the old system that had been replaced could not stop spending money, which made it impossible to recall the year of manual accounts.

Many years ago, the earliest financial system was the DOS version. On the small computer screen, black and white words could not be copied and pasted. They could not open two windows at the same time.

Every system can't be used forever. There is always a day when it is only kept as a file. Nowadays, when each system is on-line, most of the cost is calculated on the line cost, and there is little computation of the cost after its withdrawal.

It seems that the more advanced software, the higher the cost.

But the society is developing. What if a system is out of fashion? What if a software company closes? What if the company is short of money and can't take care of the old system?

Suddenly, the decision of the Ministry of Finance in the early days of computerized accounting was very clear, that is, printing all the books.

Really, as long as there are real paper things to survive, these few cases, do not have to be particularly afraid.

But in recent years, quite a lot of companies have only saved the system accounts and are lazy to print. In these cases, there is still a chance of disaster.

Now that we have raised the question, we can not imagine or solve the problem.

Perhaps one day, there will be a powerful database tool to move all kinds of old accounts into the new system, and then completely abandon the old system. In order to achieve this goal, the users in the industry need to work together to make efforts. Otherwise, the providers of information stations will never do anything like this.

But once this is true, abandoning the old system can estimate the cost of withdrawal and pay at once, no longer requiring endless maintenance costs for the old system every year.