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• M. Michele Burns.(Spotlight: Women to Watch)(Thumbnail biography)

  - 2006-10-09

  M. Michele Burns Chairwoman and Chief Executive Officer Mercer Human Resource Consulting New York Age: 48 M. Michele Burns began her career as a senior tax partner at Arthur Andersen L.L.P. before joining Delta...

  Tags: Arthur Andersen, Atlanta, CAREER, Delta Air Lines Inc., FINANCE, M., Mercer Human Resource Consulting, Taxes, women

• Deadline looms for trust fund claims

  - 2005-12-14

  Melmer, David Indian Country Today Lakota Times 12-14-2005 WASHINGTON -- Billions of dollars will potentially be lost if tribes do not file claims with the Department of Interior to negotiate settlements that will recoup lost revenues owed to the tribes for leases,...

  Tags: Arthur Andersen, attorney, FINANCE, Government, lease, Litigation, reconciliation, revenue, settlement, statute, Tribes, U.S. Congress

• CRA International Announces Executive Appointment; J. Phillip Cooper Promoted to Vice Chairman; Financial Management Veteran Wayne D. Mackie will Join CRA to Become Vice President and CFO

  - 2005-06-09

  BOSTON -- CRA International, Inc. (NASDAQ: CRAI), a leading provider of economic, financial and business strategy consulting, today announced that J. Phillip Cooper has been promoted to the newly created position of vice chairman and executive vice president. He previously served as CRA's executive vice president and CFO. Wayne D....

  Tags: Arthur Andersen, Boston, consulting, Cooper, FINANCE, financial, Outsourcing

• US Supreme Court overturns Arthur Andersen conviction

  - 2005-05-31

  WASHINGTON AFP — The US Supreme Court overturned the criminal conviction of Arthur Andersen, the onetime accounting giant effectively put out of business for its role in the Enron financial fraud. Chief Justice William Rehnquist wrote for a unanimous Supreme Court that the case was "flawed" because of the...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, Arthur Andersen, conviction, FINANCE, Litigation

• Melissa Hooley: life after Enron

  - 2005-05-01

  Melissa Hooley will never forget those grim days in 2002 when the Enron Corp. scandal swept the nation, taking many innocents in its wake. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] She had worked for Arthur Andersen for 15 years and was on the cusp of making partner when the accounting giant's Houston...

  Tags: accounting, ACM, Arthur Andersen, CAREER, Enron Corp., FINANCE, women

• Why the bubble popped.(stock market crash)(Bibliography)

  - 2004-05-03

  This clutch of books offers an excellent retrospective on the recent stock-market crash, which wiped out $8.5 trillion in market value. The value of individual retirement accounts dropped by one-third, and in just twelve months, 2 million Americans lost their jobs. But the lessons...

  Tags: accounting, Arthur Andersen, bank, bubble, deregulation, Enron Corp., Federal Reserve Board, FINANCE, inflation, Investment, Robert, SEC, stock, telecommunications, WorldCom Inc.

• Investors Win Case against Thai Auditors.

  - 2003-10-13

  By Nuntawun Polkuamdee, Bangkok Post, Thailand Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 13--In a landmark ruling, the Civil Court last week awarded damages of 688.8 million baht against auditor Sa-nga Sriariyamettha and accounting firms SGV Na Thalang and Arthur Andersen for improperly ...

  Tags: accounting, Arthur Andersen, Bangkok Post, FINANCE, investor

• Deloitte Touche & Arthur Andersen's Brazilian Units Merge

  - 2003-04-08

  Arthur Andersen's unit in Brazil has announced that it is merging with its rival Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu International. Previously, Andersen's tried to negotiate a global deal with their rival KPMG for their non-US offices. In Brazil Arthur Andersen employs over 1,500 workers. Arthur Andersen...

  Tags: Arthur Andersen, Deloitte LLP, FINANCE, Outsourcing, Taxes

• The effects of firm-wide and office-level industry expertise on audit pricing.

  - 2003-04-01

  I. INTRODUCTION This study investigates the effect of industry expertise on audit fees of Big 5 accounting firms and is motivated by recent findings in Ferguson and Stokes (2002), who document a decline in audit fee premia for industry specialists during the 1990s. Specifically, they report evidence that...

  Tags: accounting, Arthur Andersen, audit, Deloitte LLP, Editor, Ferguson, FINANCE, Strategy

• Life after Andersen

  - 2003-04-01

  A Baylor University graduate who spent more than three decades with Arthur Andersen LLP remembers a newspaper story that called the company "the Marine Corps of accounting." Employees liked the description even though the writer probably meant it as derogatory, said Phil Wedemeyer, Baylor graduate and former Andersen...

  Tags: Arthur Andersen, Baylor University, CAREER, Enron Corp., FINANCE