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>> I'm John Barnes.

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[phonetic] I'm a partner with Grant Thornton.

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[phonetic] Grant Thornton is one of
the Global Six Public Accounting firms.

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What I do is help companies overcome
problems or deal with compliance issues.

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So the Sarbanes-Oxley Act came out in 2002.

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I help companies comply with that act,
structure their internal controls appropriately,

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make sure they're complying with it, help them
report to the audit committee, in terms of that,

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as well as internal audit other
special accounting projects,

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enterprises, management and the like.

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It's a little bit 24/7 but I don't
want to scare people in that regard.

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You know as a partner in the firm I'm an owner
of this business so it's what I've chosen to do.

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It's what I love.

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And what I'd say I love about it,
no day is, there is no typical day.

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It's not like one day I do this at 9:00 and
I do the same thing at 9:00 the next day.

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It's always a variety.

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It's a lot of meetings, a lot
of interactions with clients.

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It's a lot of interaction, whether you're
in the audit tax or advisory field.

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You really get to interact with
people, help them solve problems.

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So it's really a lot of conference
calls, meetings, reviewing documents,

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interacting with people, really
helping provide solutions to companies.