PROFESSIONAL SERVICES Professional services firms provide external accounting and advisory services to commercial firms in many different forms. Auditing (the sign-off of financial statements) represents an important aspect of the services they offer however it extends further through to tax advisory, insolvency advisory, forensic accounting and general business consulting. The Professional Services Industry has evolved considerably over the past few decades, transcending just accounting services that they offer, but rather extending through to many more fields including consulting, corporate finance and human resource management. As a result, students and professionals from a diverse range of degrees and backgrounds are employed under the same firm to fill the multitude of roles on offer.
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