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The "beans" way of thinking is outdated! If any company is to be successful in today's environment they need to be counting beads!

GP is still technically correct. Why would a bead counter count beans?

Everyone has to start somewhere

When I wrote the comment I had abacuses in mind. I'm not a native speaker so I didn't know about the bean counter idiom

As a native English speaker, I adore your version.

That is actually pretty funny, you independently re-invented the expression.