Big Eight Seven Six Five Four Three?

With KPMG’s continued existence very much up in the air as the Feds contemplate indicting the entire firm for their tax shelter work in the late 1990s, Taxable Talk asks if folks remember the names of the original Big Eight accounting firms? [Answer below the fold.]

Arthur Andersen: Dead, 2002
Arthur Young: Merged with Ernst & Whinney in 1989 to form Ernst & Young
Coopers & Lybrand: Merged With Price Waterhouse in 1998 to form PriceWaterhouseCoopers
Deloitte Haskins: Merged with Touche Ross in 1989 to form Deloitte Touche
Ernst & Whinney: Merged with Arthur Young in 1989 to form Ernst & Young
Peat, Marwick & Mitchell: Merged with KMG (Klynveld Main Goerdeler) Main Hurdman in 1986 to form KPMG Peat Marwick (since shortened to KPMG)
Price Waterhouse: Merged with Coopers & Lybrand in 1989 to form PriceWaterhouseCoopers
Touche Ross: Merged with Deloitte Haskins in 1989 to form Deloitte Touche

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