accVizR: using tidy data approach and layered grammar of graphics for visualizing accounting data

This paper introduces accVizR, a developing R software package that provides a toolset for visualizing accounting data and transforming it to visual performance reports. From the earliest days of the profession, Luca Pacioli highlighted the importance of data, math and visual support in the accounting. Evolution of technical means put pressures on the profession to evolve and analyze large amount of data into actionable insights. The developed R package provides a toolset for accountants to work with accounting data in a "tidy approach" (Grolemund and Wickham, 2016) while offering data viz capabilities to facilitate decision making. The paper highlights key functionalities in the package as well as provide the results of the tests on accounting dataset.