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Basic accounting should be taught.

Heck, teach basic cooking, basic construction, basic plumbing, basic engine repair. Chances are, you're gonna need a basic understanding of all of these eventually... And if nothing else, it's an opportunity to make some aspects of basic mathematics more obviously useful to kids who are struggling to stay interested.




On that note, "Accounting for Computer Scientists" (http://martin.kleppmann.com/2011/03/07/accounting-for-comput...) is a nice introduction to the very basics. (It's a shame accounting has some much stamp collecting built in.)




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