BACKGROUND

Arthur Andersen was one of the “Big 5” accounting firms until it was convicted in 2002 of obstruction of justice related to its auditing of Enron. Subsequent to the conviction, it gave up its license to practice, sold off its accounting and consulting operations and went out of business.

RESOURCES

Books

Barbara Ley Toffl er with Jennifer Reingold, Final Accounting: Ambition, Greed, and the Fall of Arthur Andersen (New York: Broadway Books, 2003)