[mason55]

> The problem is that accounting is generally complicated because business is complicated.

This is it. From a high level, accounting lends itself very well to software. You have accounts, money, and transactions, and it appears that the challenge is moving money between accounts and then adding everything up. Perfect domain for software, that's all stuff computers are very good at.

It's only once you start digging in with real companies that you realize the math is the easy part. The hard parts are the opposite of things that computers are good at - e.g. "given this change in rules that takes effect next year and is written in plain English, how do we account for this transaction?" Or "when an exception occurs, we need to define a process for how a human can handle it after month close."

The parts that are fun for a developer (look at the cool stuff the computer can do!) are not the parts that are valuable to a user; the valuable parts are super tedious and boring.