Accountants should only be users of the systems to produce the
financial statements is really damaging to the development as well as
improvements that can occur with the aid of the accountants in the
development stage. Since accountants create the financials as well as
other reports, the advantage of having them in the development of
products or systems dealing with these areas would aid in the
developed, because they are the users that would be using the
systems at the end of the day. I believe having a end user their to tell
you which features are important or a time saver would reduce
production time as well as stream line the end product to improve
turn around time for the financial and other reports.
Accountant should be included on creating and producing reports
that deal with data or other bench mark areas that deal with
performance as accountant specialize in look at and dealing with large
sum of data in an analytical point of view. The reason I believe this is
the case is simple because accounts breakdown and analyses the
general ledgers as well as review cash flows for month end / quarter
end.
