What's the difference between ancient accounting and modern accounting?

As a modern accountant, we should not only calculate income, but also consider how to help enterprises avoid taxes reasonably without crossing the border. Moreover, modern accounting, from cashier to chief financial officer, has a clear post, a detailed division of labor, a perfect system, and each carries out its own duties and supervises each other.

Ancient accountants, legendary accounting firms, generally only keep accounts and keep property, but all the powerful accountants in the palace, that is, the household department, are very similar to our modern finance department. The difference is that they have to manage the money for the country and consider how to spend it, where to spend it and how to earn it back. The point is that no one knows whether they are corrupt or not, because the management system is not perfect.

Say the way first. We are all programmed by computers. It is convenient to check and calculate, and it is not easy to make mistakes. In ancient times, accountants used abacus. If the abacus is not well played, it is easy to make mistakes. And they are all paper records, forged or lost, and there are many accidents.

The most important thing is that the knowledge of ancient accounting is absolutely no more than that of our modern accounting!