Page 1 |
Previous | 1 of 5 | Next |
|
This page
All
Subset
|
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.