Pattern Recognition Over Perfect Understanding: An Activity-Based Costing Story

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When consultants handed me a foot-high stack of 1800 accounting formulas to program, I spent three days sure I'd fail like the previous team. Then I had an epiphany: I didn't need to understand every formula—just recognize the patterns and build a tool that could handle any formula of each type. Sometimes the best solution isn't implementing exactly what they asked for.

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