Arthur Andersen

Arthur Andersen LLP was an accounting company which was one of the Big Five. There now remains the Big Four - Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, Ernst & Young, KPMG, and PricewaterhouseCoopers. Arthur Andersen belonged to the umbrella organization Andersen Worldwide SC until it was destroyed by the Enron Corporation scandal. Arthur Andersen was left unable to perform audits for publicly traded U.S. companies which effectively ended the company's life. It still faces numerous civil lawsuits.

Ties to the American Legislative Exchange Council
Arthur Anderson has been a corporate funder of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). See ALEC Corporations for more.

Personnel
Key people included:
 * Mark Pollack, General Counsel

Chicago area personnel of Arthur Andersen and spinoff Andersen Consulting have included:
 * Gil Humphreys, Chief Financial Officer of Marsh Copsey & Associates
 * Rob Arkley
 * CSUS Business School dean Sanjay Varshney ,

Contact details
33 W. Monroe Street Chicago, IL 60603 USA Phone: 312-580-0033 Fax: 312-507-6748 Web: http://www.andersen.com

Related SourceWatch articles

 * Enron Corporation

External articles

 * Allan Sloan, "KPMG Partners Lucked Out -- Thanks to Enron and Arthur Andersen", Washington Post/CorpWatch, September 6, 2005.
 * Alexei Barrionuevo, "Prosecutors Shift Focus on Enron", The New York Times/CorpWatch, January 11, 2006.