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That's not what the accountants do at a company. The accountants are given the receipts after the engineers have already spent company money, and their job is
by gamblor956 3y ago
That's not what the accountants do at a company.
The accountants are given the receipts after the engineers have already spent company money, and their job is to account for that spending.
The finance department are the people who decide whether the engineers get to spend the money. (They're also known as the FP&A team = financial planning and analysis.)
- dylan604 3y agoI thought the engineers turned in the receipts in hopes of being reimbursed for the critical purchase that the accountants then get to decide if it meets their definition of critical.
- gamblor956 3y agoDon't blame the accountants for enforcing your company's expense policy. That's set by management. If I had a dollar for every time a programmer claimed something was "critical" but was actually just an expense for something they were doing to pad their resume for their next job, I would be as rich as Warren Buffet.
- dylan604 3y agoDidn't we agree to stop using logic around here? This is a place for irrational berating of $evilTopic. Edit to match parent's edit: I like how you turned it from a hardware engineering discussion with large and expensive equipment necessary to some flippant software comment. If I had a dollar for every time someone derails a conversation, I'd be Bezos rich