ANDERSEN CLOSURE
August 1st, 2002
BY PHILIP FINE
ARTHUR Andersen LLP has all but shut its doors, after the former accountancy powerhouse relinquished its licence to practice auditing in every American state. The US member firm of Andersen Worldwide, which was once the fifth largest auditing firm in the country, told the US Securities and Exchange Commission it would cease auditing public companies. It already had given up its licence to practice in several states. The Chicago-based company counts fewer than 3,000 of the roughly 28,000 employees it employed before the Enron scandal. In June, the ...
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