I always heard stories of guys who could do that. 
I’m going to buck the trend and say accountant.
Accountant with the strong connotation of penny wise and pound foolish.
Example: “We will not issue a per diem stipend for your travel expenses, because you might spend less and pocket the difference, but we will reimburse you for your actual expenses.”
Such a policy means that:
-Fairly high paid individuals are spending at least an hour a week preparing an expense report, and extra time obtaining, storing, and sorting receipts.
-For the hassle, these individuals are going to select more expensive hotels, restaurants, etc.
-It becomes more difficult to accurately quote off site work in the case where a client will ultimately be billed for these expenses.
So the bean counter’s policy is short sighted in the sense that greater expenses are incurred, and they are less likely to be accurately billed to a customer.
I am a bean counter, but I don’t have any training or education as an accountant. (Just the kind of nitpick you’d expect from a bean counter, right!) I just handle numbers on paper that represent money and often have to decide whether someone gets paid $24.75 or $22.95.
What has always suprised me is that I’m often labelled as anal for making the original distinction-- “Why are you worrying about $1.80?”-- but no one sees themselves as being anal when they get upset that I “took it away.”
I think this is the definitive usage. 
In ‘Class Action’, Gene Hackman plays a lawyer trying to show a car manufacturer has been criminally reckless in not solving a problem with one model, where a set of circumstances (hit from behind whilst turning right, I think) can cause an explosion and fire.
The company frustrate every move Hackman makes, until he calls a ‘bean counter’ to the stand.
The ‘bean counter’ admits the company discovered the problem well after starting production. The ‘bean counter’ estimated the cost of retooling the entire production line and also the cost of settling a few court cases. :eek:
Since the cost was less for the court cases, the company didn’t solve the problem and gambled they could befuddle any court proceedings.
Accountant (maybe a book keeper, too.)
My supervisor at work.
English derogatory term meaning “accountant”.
But that WAS referring to accounting. Accountant isn’t “someone who has a degree in accounting”, it’s “someone who does accounting”.
I’m pretty sure my uncle used the term in/before 1969
An accountant, but specifically someone who denies the concept of “false economy”. A bean counter will insist you buy the cheapest equipment on the market even though it’s known to be unreliable and will cost you more in maintenance costs in the long run.