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1 What Did Arthur Andersen Contribute To The Enron Disaster
1 What Did Arthur Andersen Contribute To The Enron Disaster
Enron disaster
Once the largest professional services firm in the world, and arguably the most respected,
Arthur Andersen LLP (AA) has disappeared. The Big 5 accounting firms are now the Big 4. Why
did this happen? How did it happen? What are the lessons to be learned? Arthur Andersen, a
twenty-eight-year-old Northwestern University accounting professor, co-founded the firm in
1913. Tales of his integrity are legendary, and the culture of the firm was very much in his
image. For example, “Just months after [Andersen] set up shop in Chicago, the president of a
local railroad insisted that he approve a transaction that would have inflated earnings. Andersen
told the executive there was “not enough money in the City of Chicago” to make him do it.”
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