Accountants exist because money queues up and we have to know how money moves from point A to point B and tax appropriately based on an arbitrary set of If-then statements. A
With the existence of the blockchain, will accountants be useless, because then we can codify taxes and transactions?
I'm a newb. Thanks for taking a look.
An interesting thought, they didn't die out when book-keeping software arrived on PCs a couple of decades back and allowed easy preparation of Profit & Loss reports and balance sheets so I suspect the answer is No
Your premise for why they exist is wrong, and people who build businesses seem to hate doing the books
As already stated above interpreting tax law is their role too - and explaining it to others within the business