Despite a challenging job market, the unemployment rate for senior accountants and auditors is a relatively low 4.1 percent, according to Robert Half Finance & Accounting. That's considerably lower than the current unemployment rate of 7.8 percent, pointed out Paul McDonald, a senior executive director of Robert Half International, during an interview in late October. One of the hottest areas, he noted, is business systems analysts who are able to bring together financial information from reports into a kind of dashboard to provide information at a glance into revenue, operating profit, inventory levels and other areas.
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