Quickbooks Makes Accounting Unnecessary?

If you have Quickbooks, do you need to know accounting? Well, if you have a car, do you need to know how to drive it?

Quickbooks, like cars, are just empty vessels which depend on human knowledge and judgment to work properly. One part is the essential mechanics – knowing what buttons to press. But the other part involves higher knowledge. Like knowing which way to turn at an intersection or knowing which landmark to look for.

Sure, cars of the future may be able to navigate to destinations without human intervention. Quickbooks may someday be able to operate without human accounting knowledge, too. But neither can do that yet.