More and more people are talking about the data issue. The danger is that we forget that we need good quality data and professional model implementation.
Accounting, love it or leave it, is an important part of our actuarial work. This covers not only Financial Accounting, but also Risk Management Disclosures, the complete MIS.
Imagine you were being asked ten years ago to describe the work you perform today (such as copy-pasting data from one spread-sheet to another) in a couple of sentences, in such a way that would allow someone like a risk manager or an actuary to perform the task. You might have answered 'impossible'.
