I think it is the naive idea that bookkeeping is accounting. I am an accountant, I never do any bookkeeping. Last week a few things I did were 1) worked on

I think it is the naive idea that bookkeeping is accounting. I am an accountant, I never do any bookkeeping. Last week a few things I did were 1) worked on a way to get sales rebates to correctly reflect in the product cost. This is half accounting knowledge and half ERP. 2) presented accounts at a meeting where I was trying to use the numbers to make the business take a different strategic direction. 3) reviewed and questioned the commercial sense in other people's plans 4) worked out how to run a new process through the ERP so the accounts flowed through correctly In other weeks I may be forecasting cash needs, doing an investment appraisal, building business plans, getting funding, writing sql to get data, building a BI system... I like the creativity and the amazing variety of what I get to do in accounts.