Debevoise deployed 100 lawyers and 110 support staff who billed 582, 000 hours, while Deloitte put 1, 300 staff members on the job, who worked 949, 000 hours searching 40 million bank documents and reviewing 127 million accounting records.
The private sector proved more deadly than the public sector, with private industry accounting for 90% of fatalities but only about 85% of total hours worked.
Signs of public accounting zombie infection include wearing dusty blue button-up shirts and wrinkled chinos, eating hours and repeatedly doing the same as last year.