This pioneering accounting services firm was founded in Chicago in 1913 by a young Northwestern University professor, Arthur Andersen, and a partner named Clarence DeLany. The firm started with two partners and six employees, who offered customers help with new federal income taxes and other accounting problems.

When did Andersen Consulting become Accenture?

Andersen Consulting Announces New Name — Accenture — Effective 01.01. 01. LONDON; October 26, 2000—Andersen Consulting will enter the new year as Accenture. On January 1, 2001, the global management and technology consulting organization will change its name to Accenture.

What happened to Andersen Consulting?

After nearly nine decades, Andersen ends role as auditor of public companies. The company now has fewer than 3,000 of the roughly 28,000 employees it had before the Enron scandal. ... Of its more than 1,200 public-company audit clients, none will remain.