Can You Keep a Secret? - Vol. 2 Ch. 13 - Love's Providence

[sleepyfoxscanlations]

@BCS It can be nice to get a doctor's opinion, especially when health care is cheap. I wish I could just casually go to a hospital like that in America...I really do.

 

[chusetto]

Such a sweetheart

 

[mal2012]

1. Going to a hospital doesn’t help with colds imo. A good night’s sleep is the best medicine. However, healthcare is cheap and universally insured where I live too, so I see a lot of people going to the hospital for the common cold.
2. I know Japan does a lot of things the old-fashioned way, but as others have pointed out, they’re doing accounting with pen and paper?! Very odd.

But weird things aside, as always, thanks for the upload.

 

[Whales]

I work a couple of steps back from real accounting in that I work with software that extracts data from accounting systems and analyses it. I haven't seen anything like the pen and paper work in this chapter since I was scribbling T accounts down during my ACA training, it just doesn't happen any more. Even in receipt processing the majority of the work and archival happens with photos and some OCR software.

You'd definitely expect a company large enough to have an in-house accounting department with multiple employees to be using a proper ERP system. Building a quarterly report would involve some basic reconciliation and - at worst - manually dragging key stats out into a PowerPoint format. Frankly if you're not using PowerBI for that part you're behind the times.

 

[Ulgan]

@Whales
Japan is strange like that. A friend of mine married a japanese girl and went to live there, he then joined an architectural firm and had to quit after a short while 'cause in my country every firm basically use CAD programs for drawing while in there they did all by hand and he couldn't deliver in time.
They are technologically advanced in a lot of things, but I guess for some they like to go old school (of course I'm not saying that applies to all companies/firms in Japan, just that it's more common than one would think).

 

[waldo220]

Thanks for scanning

 

[henman]

Yay! New chapter! Thanks!
Yes, edit help is a huge boost. And is neatly done, I can see it on a pic you inserted in your credit page. Just don't forget how it's done, in general
Actually...I like the original title better. For me, things like "love providence" hint at some 6th sense, supernatural abilities. Like, if he lost his conscience at home or in some rarely used storage room at work, and she felt uneasy and went and found him...that sort of expectation. I just feel that original title suits better what's actually happening in this chapter. Well, at least thanks that you told about it, I wouldn't have had any idea otherwise

 

[LuryB3]

thanks for the chapter

 

[penniless1]

For those who can't believe he's doing recons with printed paper and a hand calculator, I can only sigh and remember a finance dept. I worked with a decade ago. Lots of hand/electric calculators and reams of paper for quarterly/annual results. Why? Because the managers didn't trust the ERP systems in place. They took a garbage in, garbage out moment as the ERP being at fault because the software should have 'known' it was wrong. Somehow.

So this was the finance dept every quarter, with a fair uptick of sick leave/asthma attacks/stress injuries the week after. Unfortunately way too many men in the department just chugged coffee and liquor at opposite ends of a day to make it through.

 

[Andi22]

Thank you for the update 💗💗💗

 

[Daphine]

And that's why Japan might be a nice place to visit, even great for short stays, but could be hell to live long term! Their collectivism mindset is burnt in!

 

[sleepyfoxscanlations]

So many informative comments with viewpoints from all sorts of fields and locations. This has been pretty great to see. Anyway I feel compelled to note that the accounting terms are likely not 100% correct because I'm not an accountant, and I've never worked with Japanese accountants. I did my best though.

@mal2012 Definitely agreed on a hospital not helping a common cold. I'm pretty sure they're not giving you antivirals for that, after all. I think it's more of a "just in case" thing, like if it turns out it's not just a cold. I know that some people go to their doctor and demand antibiotics for a cold though, which is... not smart.

@henman Haha, I may have come close to forgetting how it was done at one point.
That's an interesting perspective on the title. I thought of it in an entirely different way but I can definitely see your point. The original title is fitting for sure — the mangaka seems to have good naming sense, unlike me. A literal translation just sounds too awkward in English, at least to my ears. But yup, I figured I should let interested parties know about my change.

 

[kaito]

this summs up why I don't want to be an accountant... those eight hours test's and the only sound you can hear are the fingers tapping the calculator's and you miss that 0.1 cent and you have to redo everything and find out where it gone wrong wasting tons of paper and you can't confirm if what you got is the correct answer, only to end up with a barely passing score.... only 12 passed of 68 people

 

[Ripperpebble]

Thx for translating

 

[BozMagic]

Thanks for the translation it’s cool to see the translators POV on the comments tho

 

[stressedcoffee]

as an accountancy student who'll soon be in that field, this chapter kind of stressed me out?! AHHAHAHHA i know that i'll experience this especially when i work in a public firm but *sigh*

anyway, it was so nice of mitsuya to do that <3

 

[IsseiTheOppaiMaster11]

Thanks for the update, please continue translating this manga really love it. Thank you translators can’t wait for the next update.

 

[Matchaaaaaaaa]

If this happened IRL the entire office would be shut down

 

[nauhalf]

Why the corp didn't use ERP Software ?

 

[Blight]

@nauhalf

I was thinking the same, looks like penniless1 has a good theory further down in the comments.

Kinda makes sense if you think about the reputation of older japanese bosses being old fashioned.