Hello, everyone.

This is Enta.

I've been putting together some teaching materials to help me teach cost accounting over the past few days.

 

Since it's the modern age, of course we use AI to create tables and such.

But the problem is that there's nothing else besides this...Once it's finishedOh no, I'm in trouble.

 

To create teaching materials, you need to structure them in a logical sequence.

For example, let's say we're teaching cost accounting for sheet metal installers.

How many people?

How many square meters?

Daily work volume?

Unit labor cost?

I'll use this as a table to create a prompt.

Then the answer becomes clear.

Well, you can do the same thing in Excel.

Now, let's say we enter the actual material and labor costs for the order and installation here.

So what happens then?

 

Okay, the cost calculation is done...

My drawings are a total mess, but when it comes to math, it’s actually really easy lol

 

To be honest, most of the work for a site supervisor at a major company involves internal paperwork.

Especially the sheer volume of internal documents! There might even be more of them than the documents we submit to government agencies!

Half of our internal documents are related to cost accounting (such as payments).

Other than that, there are things like driving logs to protect the company and all sorts of other stuff—I’d probably get in trouble if I called them “pointless,” but lol.

 

At major companies, the first step after winning a construction contract is to draw up an implementation budget, and then,

Once construction begins, we'll start entering the invoice amounts.

Then, we'll prepare the monthly financial statements for that period.

It's the same thing over and over.

I don't have time to go to the site at the end of the month, lol.

 

When you think about it, wouldn't it be better to leave as much as possible to the AI and just go out to the field?

 

The same applies even to business owners of small and micro-sized independent contractor firms like ours.

Leave the tedious stuff to the AI—let it handle construction matters and come up with new ideas, and let it take care of the finances, too.

 

I've started to wonder if that's what the future will look like.

And the result was an AI system that calculates cost based on the quantities entered.

We don't need to worry about the actual budget anymore, right?

I find myself thinking that, but at the same time, I wonder if it’s a problem that I don’t have a handle on the cost of goods sold...

 

I thought to myself that numbers are for AI, while humans are better off using their creativity to imagine that zero-to-one process.

 

What do you all think?

 

See you later.