I believe the argument that people believe 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.
