Audit firms finally began to reduce the pressure on clients that reached a peak in 2006 because of their own litigation anxiety when Auditing Standard 5 was enacted in 2007.
"We've learned a lot about how we build our systems, how we need to test our systems, the kind of pressure that's on them in those peak filing days, " Miller said.
Peak Oil means that, on balance, fields around the world that are young and still under high gas pressure, thus expanding their oil output, are equaled by older declining fields with lower pressure, which are forced to let their output slip each year.