In 1935, NASA employed a group of American women to work as human computers. Their job was to crunch data and make calculations – time-intensive tasks that would play a crucial role throughout the space race and the second world war.
Naturally, a lot has changed since then. Technological advances have taken us from queuing to receive our pay as a bundle of cash in a brown envelope, to comprehensive finance and accounting systems which can calculate and settle salary payments for tens of thousands of employees at the click of a button.
In this guide you’ll learn:
