First, the good news: After two years of decline, and with a major assist from a boom in mergers, Accounting Today's 2012 Top 100 Firms grew their revenues in 2011 by almost 8 percent, even as they boosted their overall staff numbers and expanded into a wide range of new service areas. Ordinarily, this is the point where we would bring up the bad news - if there were any. But while there are a few minor notes of gloom, and plenty of caveats, there really isn't any bad news. If we can't quite proclaim that the profession's economic troubles are over (we've made that mistake before), we can at least say that things have begun moving, however slowly, away from the stasis of last year.
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