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The brand was tarnished after Arthur Andersen became embroiled in the Enron scandal over 20 years ago. Now the Andersen Consulting name is being revived. ... In Other News. ... USA TODAY Sports.
Arthur Andersen LLP was an American accounting firm based in Chicago that provided auditing, tax advising, consulting and other professional services to large corporations. By 2001, it had become one of the world's largest multinational corporations and was one of the "Big Five" accounting firms (along with Deloitte, Ernst & Young, KPMG and PricewaterhouseCoopers).
Enron logo. The Enron scandal was an accounting scandal sparked by American energy company Enron Corporation filing for bankruptcy after news of widespread internal fraud became public in October 2001, which led to the dissolution of its accounting firm, Arthur Andersen, previously one of the five largest in the world.
David B. Duncan (born 1960) is a former partner of Arthur Andersen, and was the United States government's star witness in the Arthur Andersen trial.He has said fears over interpretation prompted him to order the shredding of documents relating to Enron.
While in Tokyo meeting with Asia-Pacific partners in an attempt to keep the firm together, Berardino received the news that the U.S. Justice Department was likely to indict the firm. Berardino hired former Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker in February 2002 to create an independent oversight board and reform Andersen into a pure auditing ...
Nancy Temple, second from the left, testifies with other Arthur Andersen witnesses on January 24, 2002. Nancy Anne Temple is an attorney specializing in accounting liability . She was the in-house attorney for Arthur Andersen , who advised Michael Odom and David B. Duncan about Arthur Andersen policies regarding retention of documents from ...
Arthur Andersen LLP v. United States , 544 U.S. 696 (2005), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court unanimously overturned accounting firm Arthur Andersen 's conviction of obstruction of justice in the fraudulent activities and subsequent collapse of Enron .
He broke news of the insider trading guilty plea of former ImClone CEO Sam Waksal; SEC fraud charges against WorldCom; the plan to dissolve accounting firm Arthur Andersen; Wall Street analyst Jack Grubman's conflict of interest settlement; the suicide of former Enron executive Cliff Baxter; and details of the global settlement between tobacco ...