Accounting/Finance Skills Continue in Demand

Ron Blair of executive placement firm Century Group, anticipates strong demand for accounting and finance professionals to continue throughout 2007. Blair provided five reasons for this view:
[1] use of accountants/finance professionals (hereafter AFP) as temporary hires to control full-time staff levels in potentially recessionary times, [2] increased bankruptcy filings will require specialized AFP skills, [3] greater desire by AFPs to move from full-time employment to contract/project work, [4] increased auditing demands, especially for mid-sized companies, related to Sarbanes-Oxley, [5] greater turnover caused by need to replace departing AFPs.