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Early January, as the traditional busy
season in public accounting begins, is
not the normal or expected time for
practice offices to release staff
accountants from audit work. But this
year Haskins & Sells broke with past
patterns and held a winter training
seminar for newly employed men and
women, some of them just three weeks
off the university campus, who had
scarcely had time to check into their
new jobs with the Firm.
Reason? The increased number of
students completing their degree
work in December. As more colleges
and universities adopt the quarter
system in place of the time-honored
semesters, H&S is adjusting to the
December inflow of recruits. The Firm
used to hire heavily in June, and hold
training sessions in the summer
months. New col lege graduates used
to converge on New York City for these
training seminars, one group after
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