Problems and Opportunities
CHAPTER 1 As the world financial crisis bit deep at local level, clients were cutting back and new business had slumped, hitting the business of accountancy partnership Brown and Dempsey. Smiles and some cheer persisted as did the worry lines on faces each time someone in the offices cleared his or her desk. Thompson Harris felt the threat personally when called into the managing partner’s office for coffee. He left the meeting, face ashen. As last senior accountant to be hired, he’d been...