I&#x27;ve always wondered why finance continues to run on a monthly cycle. Why isn&#x27;t that kind of tracking more continuous? It seems to introduce artificial and harmful effects, like people trying to &quot;game their numbers&quot; at the end of a month.<p>It seems like reporting ought to be continuous and instantaneous.<p>I imagine there are historical reasons why things have worked that way, since it was inconvenient for humans to compute aggregations any more frequently. However, now we have computers. Why report on a month or quarter or year? Why not look at the report every day, or as often as needed?