Accounting Department

As an independent filmmaker my two cents as well is that accounting is a large part of production, but indeed, it has barely anything to do with creative process. 

Still, very much a necessity and having separate professionals to do that is much better then going through the bills yourself while you can go and film smething... 

Well, the OP never said the accountants deal with the creative process of a film. She just stated it's a big department.
Also, IMDb has a separate section for the Transportation Department (https://help.imdb.com/article/contribution/filmography-credits/transportation-department/GKAQS95JUDN...#) and to the best of my knowledge (but I'm not in the industry) that's not an incredibly creative department either.

Precisely, I really do not see the point in having such a singularization!

I am an accountant in the film industry, and though some don't directly effect the creative process I'd argue that production accountants who do budgeting or assist producers in budgeting do effect the creative process directly as they determine how big a scene can be from that. IMDB credits/categories being based on the creative process seems idiotic, first of all. By your reasoning producers shouldn't have their own category as they hire and negotiate the deals with the creative people and only make creative decisions based on money (like, no, you can't explode an entire hospital for that scene just for the hell of it, not in the budget!) second we also easily fit under production management, why not add us to that existing category then along with the people we work closest with, UPM, production supervisors and the like?

I should say that I really respect any profession in film industry regardless of how creative it gets: you can't do a movie alone or at least it will be extremely hard an painful. Each crew member provides something great for production. I think that combining accountant with production managers can be quite a good decision, but I wonder whether PMs and UPMs  have second thoughts about that... As far as I know both of those jobs require a producers guild membership, while I don't know whether having such is the norm for accountants as well... 

As for departments: IMDb in general is very slowly at exapnding the departments, as it requires a lot of internal workings. It is done quite slowly, but there are some proceedings in the area and the expansion has nothing to do with "creative decision" importance: it's just that grouping anything and then implementing it takes a lot of time. That and, guilds as well shape how some of the departments look and what they include. 

OK Nikolay, but there has been such an inflation over the credits in the past decades... In the 1930's-1950's, a film credit would consist of less that 10 cartons, i.e. about 40 names at the most. Still in the 1970's, a maximum of about 100 names were displayed. Now we are counting several hundreds, and final credits are rarely scrolling under 10'.
Sorry but this is utterly ridiculous: all of the names there, including accountants (and drivers !), cannot have the same involvements as the major functions (producing, writing, directing, acting, editing) that do make up a film.

There has always been drivers and accountants since movies were made, especially in the studio system in Hollywood. What kind of recognition does it bring tto have their names in the credits ? Does the fact of having their names displayed have made the films better?

My answer, after 50 years and more than 5000 films of viewing, is definitely: no. There are some good films being produced nowadays, as there have been since Griffith, Eisenstein, Epstein, Dreyer, etc.
Never forget that films are made for the public, not for the "makers".

There has always been drivers and accountants since movies were made, especially in the studio system in Hollywood. What kind of recognition does it bring tto [sic] have their names in the credits ? Does the fact of having their names displayed have made the films better?

Do you feel IMDb shouldn't list these on their site at all? And if you do, where would you draw the line?

Standards in the industry changed for a reason and I believe that it was a bit unfair to not have people who honestly worked hard on the movie uncredited. Sometimes I feel like researching and adding more of such people to have their filmographies there, even with "(uncredited)". People should know that studio productions always required a lot of people and it's not a recent addition. 

And yes, IMDb should list everything from the credits, in my humble opinion. 

Marco: Good question!

I do not pretend to have the correct answer at once. The current IMDb policy is to rely solely on credits, regardless of the actual historical data, stemming from research (books, interviews, TV subjects, etc.), and I resent this.
I am also baffled that acountants and drivers would show (why not as it is "factual data"), when dubbers have been ignored since the beginning.
My personal approach would be to focus on the 5 main core functions (producing, scripting, directing, photographying, editing) without which a film cannot be, then adding the artistic creative functions (music, sound, designing, costumes, etc.), which  could be extended to the graphic (i.e. digital) image processing.
My 2 cents.

Nikolay: I am OK with IMDb relying mainly on credits, there is a rationale behind it, but, especially when it comes non explicit information e.g. "uncredited" or deleted scene, IMDb cannot be considered as a research source. It just shows the external side of a movie, and that's too bad.

I am a longtime defender of including the international versions and subs into the credits, especially since ephemeral "English version" is okay, despite at times being little more then a dub itself, if not exactly that. 

As for deleted scenes and uncredited entries: I always loved those and they are really interesting to research at times, but that's just me and I am a lifelong movie buff with very specific interests. :) 

My two cents: I feel IMDb should rely on the credits, but also on research, historical data and whatnot. But if someone is credited, I feel it should be listed on IMDb. (even if the person didn't do any work on it, therefore we have the attribute (credit only))

@jennifer_winter_g3hvevppq4m3y​ right!?!?! If we can get the new request out to as many in and out of our department maybe they will HAVE to listen..... you'd hope.....

https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/conversations/data-issues-policy-discussions/production-accountant-credit/62f2e79ac5eeb86e2c3788e6