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authors:
- lucy
redirect_from: /2012/01/open-bookkeeping-what-role-can-accountants-play-in-open-spending-budget-projects/
title: "Open Bookkeeping: What role can accountants play in Open Spending & Budget Projects?"
---
The next OpenSpending online community meeting will take place on *Thursday, 19th Jan - 6pm GMT*. 

## The topic

Accountants spend their entire working lives mapping the money:

* How can their expertise be put to good use in Open Spending Data projects? 
* What interesting initiatives are going on around the world which could benefit from the input of accountants? 

<a href="http://blog.openspending.org/files/2012/01/money.png"><img src="http://blog.openspending.org/files/2012/01/money-300x212.png" alt="Via OpenClipArt" title="money" width="300" height="212" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-96" /></a>

All are welcome! If you'd like to contribute to the discussion by joining the call, please just add your name and Skype ID to [the pad](http://wdmmg.okfnpad.org/community-2012-01-12)

Please feel free to share with colleagues friends and other communities. 

N.B. Over the next weeks, we'll be trying to theme the discussions and proactively invite people along to join them. If you have a suggestion for a topic you think the group should discuss, please drop us a line via the [OpenSpending mailing list](http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/openspending). 
