Accountability was in my top 3 reasons for going to AA meetings every night. I felt it would be helpful to have a place I could go every day to report that I was OK. I'm not sure how important that really was. It just seemed important at the time. But what I'm thinking now is that accountability to others is not as important as accountability to myself. I'm the one who really counts. Whether others approve or disapprove or even care is not the critical issue in recovery. We do this for ourselves.
Having said that, others can play an important part in our recovery. We get useful information from others, tips on how to deal with sticky situations, and occasionally we are shown new things we should have learned but somehow missed along the way. We can learn from others, especially those like us who have had to find a path to sobriety also.