The traditional view of accountants as merely bean counters' is slowly becoming a thing of the past. For centuries, accountants have been employed to report on the numbers.They have set there in there in their little corner.surrounded by stacks of paper and computer printouts ,and have told whethr or not we have made a profit.But more and more,accountants are finding that management doesn't need them to roport on the numbers. With today's technology,ml management already has access to software programs which do this work for therm.