National staff: The answer men;

              These are the duties of the firm's National Accounting
Staff—some 20 men and women, highly trained in ac­counting
and auditing concepts and experienced in their
application to everyday practice.
Working out of Chicago, New York, Washington, Kan­sas
City and San Francisco, the staff spends its more-than-busy
days answering questions, anticipating and resolving
new problems, adding to the accounting literature.
Officially, the job of the national staff is to answer ques­tions
from our audit people around the country, turn out
a constant stream of technical publications on new develop­ments
and special problems, support the firm's partners
who serve on key posts in professional associations, and
work on the problems which occur when a client gets into
trouble—from the first hint that a problem is coming until
it is resolved.
Unofficially, the national staff is the place to go when
there is just no answer to a complicated accounting problem.
The staff consists of a permanent cadre of experienced
partners and managers working with a group of audit people
who come from field offices for a one-or-two-year assign­ment.
This rotating program has a number of very positive
benefits—it brings a continued fresh outlook to the staff
and helps disseminate the accumulated experience from
the national staff to the field offices.