In my job I look at client's figures, sometimes complex, sometimes simple and most of the time the data is presented and I trawl through it looking for exceptions and things that don't make sense.
Occasionally client's are not sophisticated enough to provide a pack of info so they let me access their accounting system (read only) and I run off the relevant reports.
I have looked at data on a major cloud based accounting package recently. It's chronically slow.
Running a sales ledger aged report took 20 minutes and that's for 50ish debtors and I needed 12 months worth.
Running a transaction report took nearly an hour.
I checked with the supplier's help desk, there were no reported issues!
Equivalent reports on the most popular PC based accounts package would take about 10 minutes total on an average laptop and would most of the time would actually be converting the data to Excel format.
Not impressed so far.
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