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- From: brent@lastthor (Brent Terry)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
- Subject: Re: Tax Software
- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.162133.2937@pencom.com>
- Date: 14 Dec 92 16:21:33 GMT
- References: <1992Dec11.144731.20996@linus.mitre.org>
- Sender: usenet@pencom.com (Usenet Pseudo User)
- Organization: Pencom Software
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- In article <1992Dec11.144731.20996@linus.mitre.org> dbrake@cyclone.mitre.org
- (Dennis Brake (PSI) X7767) writes:
- > In article <1992Dec10.200016.13035@88opensi.88open.ORG> dave@88open.org (Dave
- Cline) writes:
- > >In article <19921209.115700.695@almaden.ibm.com>,
- > > simonofb@wmavm7.VNET.IBM.COM writes:
- > >
- > >>> ... Creating a benchmark suite of
- > >>>numbers to be posted into the packages, it discovered that NO TWO OF THE
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- > >>>PACKAGES COULD ARRIVE AT THE SAME TAX OWED.
- > >
- > >Money magazine has one issue every year (April?) where they give the
- > >same tax situation to a variety of CPAs (I think the sample size
- > >is about 50). The bottom line varies all over the place and I can't
- > >remember anyone getting the right answer in the past several years.
- > >Small wonder that the tax packages give different answers.
- >
- > This is ridiculous. If I give my data to 50 CPA's they can interpret it
- > differently and get various answers. However, if you enter your data into
- > 50 different calculators you better get the same answer. These tax packages
- > don't make any decisions. They just make your calculations easier if they
- > work.
- I think you just contradicted yourself. Surely you realize that an accountant
- had to come up with the algorithm. Therefore there could be 50 different
- algorithms. I would be suprised if the same numbers on the same package gave
- different answers. That analogy would be closer to what you explained.
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