That's overstated. You don't have to be a full-blown accountant; you just have to have enough accounting knowledge to do your job. I worked at a funds company for a few years and I didn't know anything about the business when they hired me. But the amount of domain knowledge I had to learn to be effective in my little area wasn't that difficult to pick up.
>The real bad news for software devs is this : you'll do a lot better as a bad developer with expert domain knowledge than vice versa.
Nobody is going to thank you for producing software that would have been great if only it worked the way you intended.
