Now Hiring: Major Accounting Firms in Feeding Frenzy

It looks like the major U.S.-based accounting firms are in a hiring frenzy -- they just can't get enough bean counters. Whether it's because of the oddly bullish stock market, growth in the economy or the trend for big businesses to hire outside contractors rather than full-time accountants of their own, if you work in tax or finance, you're literally in the money.