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So Arthur Anderson was 2 things, an accounting firm and a consulting firm. The accounting firm enabled Enron. When the scandal started, the 2 parts split. Th

So Arthur Anderson was 2 things, an accounting firm and a consulting firm. The accounting firm enabled Enron. When the scandal started, the 2 parts split. The accounting from (the guilty ones) kept the AA name and went out of business a bit later. The consulting firm rebranded to Accenture. The more you know...

munificent 9mo ago
It's not like the company going out of business means the people who did these horrible things just evaporated. Nancy Temple is still a lawyer, David Duncan is a CFO, most of the other partners are at other accounting firms.