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accton from psacct pacakge is not able to create log file itself. In RHEL6, this was handeled in init file using touch:
[ ! -r $ACCTFILE ] && touch $ACCTFILE && chmod 600 $ACCTFILE

In RHEL7, unit file is IMHO not able to handle this action. And it's also reasonable that utility which want to log into file will create it if it doesn't exist (and append date if it exists). Please modify accton to be able create such a file.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
RHEL-7.0-20130222.0
psacct-6.5.5-7.el7

Steps to Reproduce: 
1. delete default log file (/var/account/pacct
2. systemctl start psacct.service

Actual results: 
no logging performed because of missing log file

Expected results:
log file has been created

Please, retest with psacct-6.6.1-2

Verified in job https://beaker.engineering.redhat.com/jobs/468205

Log file has been created.

Redirecting to /bin/systemctl start  psacct.service
:: [   PASS   ] :: Turn on process accounting
/var/account/pacct
:: [   PASS   ] :: Logfile /var/account/pacct has been created
:: [   PASS   ] :: run sleep for 2 minutes in background
:: [   PASS   ] :: Get PID of previous sleep
:: [   PASS   ] :: Wait until previous sleep finished
 12000.00
:: [   PASS   ] :: Get accounting info
 12000.00
:: [   PASS   ] :: Verify correct value
'07882ee7-c823-4ccf-b87a-b27fb4932fa3'
Test result: PASS