Do good accountants make bad HR managers?
Technically, good accountants do not necessarily make bad HR managers. However, given the differing nature of conventional accountancy and human resource accountancy, what could be good in the former could not be possibly good for the later. In a way, good accountant can make bad HR managers when they would follow the conventional accounting methods instead of that which is applicable to the human resource department. To further understand this, the field of human resource accounting has to be thoroughly explained and differentiated with that of the conventional accounting. The field of human resources management has indeed undergone evolutionary changes from specializing in traditional functions to having greater roles in the life of an organization. One area which is revolutionizing human resources management is human resources accounting. Human resources accounting is an attempt to estimate the economic contributions of personnel activities and the value of human capital. It is a li
