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Originally Posted by Brannigans Law
It is insensitive. 1 penny cheques shouldn't be going out to soldiers families, a check or balance clearly is missing.
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Well yes, I did call it a bug in the software, that would be a missing check or balance.
If it was a $0.01 cheque going out to a solder that hadn't passed it would have been funny and laughed off. I've got a cheque for a few cents from a utility before. Rounding errors happen, software has bugs sometimes, it happens. It's not insensitive because it's not reasonable to expect accounting software to take the personal lives of the people it's sending cheques to into account. An it's not reasonable to expect accounting software to have no bugs.
Or should that be programmed into the system? Every cheque below.. what, $1 has to be manually vetted to make sure there's no possible negative angle? If the cheque was $10 would that have been less "insensitive"?
Or I guess we could just raise taxes and revert back to manual accounting, but that still wouldn't have helped anything, the person manually writing the cheque for $0.01 wouldn't have known the family situation either.
What precisely should be changed in the whole accounting process to prevent this?