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Arthur Andersen LLP was an American accounting firm based in Chicago that provided auditing, tax advising, consulting and other professional services to large corporations.
For more than a half century, Arthur Andersen—cofounded as Andersen, DeLany & Co. in 1913 by Arthur E. Andersen, a young accounting professor who had a reputation for acting with integrity—was primarily an auditing firm focused on providing high-quality standardized audits.
The Enron scandal was a series of events that resulted in the bankruptcy of the U.S. energy, commodities, and services company Enron Corporation in 2001 and the dissolution of Arthur Andersen LLP, which had been one of the largest auditing and accounting companies in the world.
Aug 31, 2022 · Arthur Andersen’s Legacy, 20 Years After Its Demise, Is Complicated. The accounting firm, which went out of business in the aftermath of the Enron scandal, remains a joke for many. Others...
Arthur Andersen was charged with and found guilty of obstruction of justice for shredding the thousands of documents and deleting e-mails and company files that tied the firm to its audit of Enron.
Andersen in the U.S. was founded in 2002 by 23 former Arthur Andersen partners under the name WTAS. On September 2, 2014 WTAS announced it had acquired the rights to the iconic brand name Andersen and would rename itself Andersen Tax. In 2019, Andersen Tax became Andersen.
Aug 3, 2021 · Accountancy firm Arthur Andersen saw its reputation destroyed by the Enron scandal. In the UK, there was little or no reform in response to Enron. And according to Labour peer Prem...
