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Foreword
The themes today in accounting firms are often the themes of yesterday.
However, today is different and the profession has changed. Clients are more
sophisticated and demanding, partners are retiring at an alarming rate, and
many younger practitioners are fleeing the profession.
I am old enough to remember the Days of the Giants and was fortunate
to live through those exciting times as a young partner in an aggressive
accounting firm in Chicago. I witnessed firsthand the way the Giants oper-
ated. I was on the scene to watch the up-or-out policies of firms and the
traditional pyramid structure with partners at the top enjoying the “good ...