Hints and tips:
...They allowed Price Waterhouse to merge with Coopers, and although the incompetence of the audit of Enron was manifest there was no need to destroy Arthur Andersen worldwide instead of just the part relevant...
...His early career was at Arthur Andersen before moving to Price Waterhouse in Paris....
...The likes of Peat, Price and Waterhouse pitched themselves as the friends of the honest investor....
...Many years ago, when we were very young, Price Waterhouse announced that it wanted to merge with Cooper Brothers....
...When she applied to Coopers & Lybrand (which became PwC after its merger with Price Waterhouse), they did not mention her gender. So she joined the firm....
...In any case, since the Enron scandal laid Arthur Andersen low, watchdogs have been reluctant to pursue any case that would risk reducing the Big Four to the Even Bigger Three....
...Though we do know from Companies House filings that there’s a number of US-based individuals involved as directors or shareholders: George Frost from Berkeley USA, Arthur Britto, Steve Waterhouse, partner...
...He is starkly honest about his feelings towards Arthur: “The difficulty I had about Arthur was that as far as Mary was concerned, I think she felt about him the same way that she felt about her other children...
...Julian Roberts, its chief executive, started out at Price Waterhouse, but moved swiftly into insurance with C E Heath, the brokers....
...He studied economics and history at Glasgow University and began his career at Arthur Andersen before moving to Price Waterhouse in Paris. He has held successive finance director roles....
...Firms ranked by revenues: Price Waterhouse Coopers Lybrand Ross Montgomery Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Haskins Sells Plender Griffiths Ross Bailey Smart Niven Baily Ernst Young Arthur Whinney Murray Smith Klynveld...
...The call to arms comes 10 years to the day since Price Waterhouse merged with Coopers & Lybrand to become the biggest global accounting firm....
...It looked at audit fees before and after the 1998 merger of Price Waterhouse and Coopers & Lybrand – the move that shrank the Big Six to the Big Five....
...“The Sleep of King Arthur” was the apotheosis of this ambition....
...Then, following the scandal of Enron, the energy trader, Arthur Andersen was forced out of business. What had been the big six had become the big four. Mr Land is uncomfortable with this....
...And look at her pedigree - not yet 50, she was born in India, got an undergraduate degree in economics, qualified with Price Waterhouse Cooper in 1980, and has since pursued a 25-year career in banking -...
...In other deal news, shares in Ameritrade Holding climbed 2.1 per cent to $18.25 on Wednesday’s announcement that it would buy rival TD Waterhouse USA from Toronto-Dominion Bank....
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