> I think the UI is an engineering problem at least as important as anything else mentioned in the article.
Indeed.
> I'm not sure what a good solution would look like
What is interesting is that on the business reporting side (which is in any case deeply enmeshed with the accounting system side) there is a defacto standard (xbrl and its various specifications [1]) which via web technologies (iXBRL [2]) provides a path towards generic web UI patterns.
Indeed.
> I'm not sure what a good solution would look like
What is interesting is that on the business reporting side (which is in any case deeply enmeshed with the accounting system side) there is a defacto standard (xbrl and its various specifications [1]) which via web technologies (iXBRL [2]) provides a path towards generic web UI patterns.
[1] https://www.xbrl.org/int/gl/2016-12-01/gl-framework-2017-PWD...
[2] https://www.xbrl.org/the-standard/what/ixbrl/