accountant

also referred to as: accountants

2 statements across 2 episodes · 0 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Apr 16, 2026 by Benedict Evans · across every show →

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Apr 16, 2026 neutral

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Evans: US accountant headcounts rose every decade of the 20th century

“The number of accountants in the USA increased every single decade in the 20th century. As you go through adding machines and computers and mainframes and PCs and Excel and ERPs and SAS, you get wave after wave of automation and the number of accountants keeps…”

Benedict Evans Apr 16, 2026 ▶ 15:13 What jobs are AI jobs?

Jun 5, 2026

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Evans: Accountant jobs grew every decade last century despite successive automation

“So the number of accountants basically went up every decade in the 20th century, even as we've had successive waves of automation going through accounting because the job changed when you automated it.”

Benedict Evans Jun 5, 2026 ▶ 23:39 The spring updates on AI

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