Grant Thornton has put out its quarterly "Business Optimism Index" and somehow gets to a score of 54.5 compared to only 37.6 in February '09. This leads the firm, if you remember, that has a passion for the business of accounting*, to believe that business leaders are more confident about the economy.Call us former auditors, but we're skeptical about this "Index". Less than half (45%) of the respondents believe the economy will improve, 62% are very or somewhat optimistic about their own business, and only 20% expect to increase staff, in the next six months.
TA-DAH!!!
*We'd like to go on record that those commercials with the guy dancing with a rose in his mouth, that were constantly running on CNBC, might be the worst attempt by an accounting firm to market itself. Just sayin'.
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