Accountant

  

An accountant is just the brains behind the bean-counting. The big delineation between an accountant and a bookkeeper is that a bookkeeper can and will soon be replaced wholly by computers/software.

An accountant actually...thinks. Reasons. Applies creative optimization models not easily modeled by computers to the huge elements of tracking company progress from myriad perspectives, simultaneously.

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