By their very nature and training accountants are taught to be very conservative and to focus only on what can be proven by the numbers which means they focus on the past more than on the future. Creative accountant is almost as much of an oxymoron as honest politician and just as rare. Creative accountants often find themselves in prison, too.

Accountants and innovators look at things from almost diametrically opposed views so the key is to have as much communication between these polar viewpoints for that each can understand the other’s perspective. All too often the innovators are so convinced that their great idea can’t miss that they blow off the financial analysis or provide false information.

The accountants are treated with even less respect than the bane of all developers, those scum known as project managers. ‘Real developers’ know that both are only there to slow progress. ‘Mature developers’ understand as GSquared says “We need both.”