[Am-info] Enron Accountants

[John J. Urbaniak]

I'd like to pursue this just a little bit more.  I've heard that Enron
paid Andersen something like $27 million for *consulting* services as
well as the standard accounting/auditing services.

Didn't Microsoft and Andersen form some kind of joint venture partnership
to perform consulting services?  I forgot the name of the venture, but I
think it begins with "A."

Does anyone know, did Enron employ this partnership for the consulting
services?

If so, there's a Microsoft connection.

There is little doubt that the Enron debacle was largely due to
accounting/auditing improprieties.  But I can't help but wonder what
those "consulting" services provided by Andersen were.  And was Microsoft
involved?

John


Doug Masson wrote:

> It was Andersen consulting or Arthur Andersen or whatever it's called
> these days I think.
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> On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, John J. Urbaniak wrote:
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> > Just curious,
> >
> > Anybody know who was the Accounting firm for Enron?
> >
> > John
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