'All found work and are making good money.'
With workloads up 40 percent due to Sarbanes-Oxley, CPAs and financial managers are in hot demand again across the nation. Even in the dot-com wasteland of the Pacific Northwest, one recruiter says, "Every unemployed CFO, every unemployed controller, financial people laid off from dot-coms -- they've all found work and are making good money."
WHO'S HIRING: RSM McGladrey, Grant Thornton, Moss Adams, even little Williams & Webster in Spokane, according to Puget Sound Business Journal. More: Jefferson Wells has gone from 40 to 240 people in the Northwest, and is looking for another 65 people
BACK TO SCHOOL: Accounting enrollments went from 86 in 2001 to 176 this year at Seattle Pacific. University of Washington Business School accounting professor Gary Sundem reports a 20 percent increase.
