I'm looking to develop a program that can help me with labor calculations. Essentially, I want to be able to input financial statements, and then have the program return complete calculations based on that data. What programming language should I learn to achieve this?
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If you're leaning towards programming, I recommend C#. Its Decimal type is particularly good for financial calculations and adheres to accounting standards for rounding. Plus, there are libraries available that can help you work with spreadsheets if that's your data source.
You might want to consider using Excel for this kind of task; it doesn’t require programming skills and can handle basic calculations quite well. However, if you’re looking to dive into programming, any general-purpose language like Python, C#, or JavaScript can do the job. It all depends on how you want to process the data!
That sounds somewhat similar to the system we use in Brazil called PJE for labor calculations. However, you still have to manually input a lot of data, which can be really tedious. We've yet to see a program that can just pull in all the required information automatically!