Farewell
Most people recognize that Arthur Andersen was a great Firm. It was perhaps the greatest.
Its fulminating, unexpected and shameful collapse, with the Enron case and ensuing disappearance from the market, leaving a cloud of local professional firms, has left in the collective memory a totally negative image, erasing any earlier merits as if they never existed.
We have tried in this book to recover those merits, to bring back the entrepreneurial model that made of Arthur Andersen an admired and successful Firm, and to leave it as legacy to future generations. We have tried to do it without avoiding criticism of the model itself and denunciation of its weak points, because we believe it is the best way to help explaining that every model ...
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