Accountants are not supposed to "call the shots". They provide management with the information to understand the monetary impact of decisions and undertakings, it's up to managements to decide how best to use that information.
Yes, but you seem to working off the false premise that this is the sort of things that accountants go around doing. Accountants don't make the decisions for the company they work for, they exist to collect financial information, present it in a such way that is understandable, and to provide estimates where solid numbers don't exist.
Actually, this is precisely why they should make decisions.
How you do take a job that is boring enough to atrophy your soul and make it exciting?
ADD EXPLOSIONS.
Makes 8 servings of win.
To be fair I'm certainly not saying all or even most businesses work this way. In fact in this case it wasn't literally organized like that in this company, still, they were calling the shots De Facto.