05-13-2025, 11:03 AM
(05-13-2025, 09:08 AM)chrisk Wrote:(02-24-2025, 02:42 PM)Mick Wrote:(02-13-2025, 04:42 PM)Mick Wrote:(02-13-2025, 12:59 PM)BobK Wrote: I think I told Mick this before. Our good friend in the 70s was the lead Arthur Anderson auditor.
You did. Dave Duncan was the most recent AA audit partner in charge of the Enron audit. He had only been an equity partner for a year and he had the client with the third highest audit fee in the United States (after Waste Management -- another AA debacle -- and Citibank). Still, all charges against Duncan were dropped, and the USSC overturned Andersen's conviction. Not that it mattered, they'd gone out of business years before, though Andersen Tax Services and Accenture (the former Andersen Consulting) still survive.
And Andersen is reviving its consulting practice, this time basing it in San Francisco.
https://www.bing.com/search?pglt=297&q=a...A1&PC=HCTS
And George Shaheen, at age 80, is coming back to lead it. He ran Andersen Consulting before it was spun off by Arthur Andersen in the 90s.
George ran the SF office before taking the chairmanship. He was my boss from 1985-87.
"We have an unwritten rule around here not to do anything stupid."
-Casey Jacobsen, Feb 3, 2000
