True and fair: a history of Price Waterhouse
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| Beschreibung: | XIX, 443 S. Ill. |
| ISBN: | 0241001722 |
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| adam_text | Contents
List of Figures ix
List of Tables x
List of Illustrations xi
List of Abbreviations xvi
Foreword xvii
Acknowledgements xviii
Introduction i
1. The Rising Profession 9
Origins of the Profession 10
Public Perception 15
Price Waterhouse within the Profession 18
2. Foundations of the Partnership 25
Samuel Lowell Price 26
Edwards Price 28
William Hopkins Holyland 32
Edwin Waterhouse 33
Price, Holyland Waterhouse 40
3. The Burgeoning Practice 44
The Early Clients 45
Company Legislation 48
Auditing: Railways 50
Broadening the Practice:
Banks and Financial Institutions 56
Special Assignments 57
Fortunes of the Firm 58
Partnership Changes 62
Staff and Office Routines 68
CONTENTS
3 Frederick s Place 70
Overseas: New York and Chicago 7*
4. Consolidation and Succession 79
The Retirement of Edwin Waterhouse 80
Partnership Changes 86
Branch Offices: Liverpool and Newcastle 89
The American Firm 9°
Egypt, South America and Australia 97
Fees, Profits and Staff Numbers 98
Taxation and Death Duties 99
Involvement with the Institute 100
Companies Acts 102
5. The First World War 105
Partnership Changes 106
Government Assignments 107
Staff in the Forces no
Fortunes of the Firm 115
Developments on the Continent 118
6. The Interwar Years 121
Partnership Changes 122
Development of the Practice 132
Proposed Merger with W.B. Peat Co. 139
The Hatry Case 143
The Royal Mail Case 145
Consolidation and Other Accountancy Themes 157
Branch Offices 161
Frederick s Place: Routines and Character 165
7. Price Waterhouse Abroad 169
Development of the Practice 169
The Kreuger Fraud 179
Relations with the US Firm 182
India, South Africa and South America 183
CONTENTS
8. Price Waterhouse in the Second World War 187
The Impact of War 188
Disruption to Routines and Offices 192
Partnership Changes 196
The Role of Women 199
Taxation 200
The European Firm: Temporary Suspension 201
The International Firm 207
9. Crisis and Change 210
Changes to the Partnership 212
Nature of the Firm: Fees and Profits 222
Staff and Articled Clerks 223
The Organisation and Structure of the Firm 228
Clients and Services 231
Company Legislation 234
Regional Expansion 237
The Continental Firm Re established 242
10. The Quiet Revolution 248
Partnership Changes 249
Restructuring the Firm 255
The Statistics of Growth 260
The Growth of Specialist Services 266
Corporate Image 270
Southwark Towers 271
Mergers 274
The Big Eight 275
Company Crises, Legislation and Regulation 276
The European and International Firms 282
11. Quality, Growth and Profitability 287
Changes to the Partnership 288
The Development of Professional Services 292
Development of the Firm 298
Growth of the Practice 302
Quality Control 304
CONTENTS
Territorial Expansion 306
The Pan European Consultancy and the World Firm 308
Epilogue 311
Growth of the Practice 311
The Structure of the Partnership 323
The European Combination 326
Abortive Mergers: Deloittes and Arthur Andersen 330
Troubled Events: Guinness and BCCI 334
Retrospect 337
Notes 343
Sources: 385
Manuscript Sources 385
Journals 385
Personal Recollections 385
Select Bibliography 387
Appendix: Tables 395
Index 411
List of Figures
1 A Simplified Genealogical Table of the UK Firm of Price Waterhouse 21
2 The Location and Origin of the Principal Offices of Price Waterhouse
in Britain 22
3 The Foundation of Price Waterhouse 27
4 The Relationship between Price, Edwards and Turquand 29
5 Selected Accountancy Firms in the Victorian City of London 31
6 The Geographical Origins of Price Waterhouse in Nineteenth
century London 41
7 Price Waterhouse (UK Firm) and its Competitors Fee Incomes
1866 1914 60
8 Price Waterhouse (UK Firm) Profits 1866 1914 6l
9 Price Waterhouse (UK Firm) and its Competitors Fee Incomes
I9H 45 133
10 Price Waterhouse (UK Firm) Profits 1914 45 134
11 The Fee Income and Profits of the Continental Firm of Price
Waterhouse 1922 34 178
12 Price Waterhouse (UK Firm) Fee Income and Profits 1930 50 196
13 Price Waterhouse (UK Firm) Fee Income and Profits 1945 65 222
14 Price Waterhouse (UK Firm) Fee Income and Staff Totals in
London Office 1939 67 224
15 Price Waterhouse (UK Firm) Organisational Chart August 1964 230
16 Price Waterhouse Professional Staff by Occupation 1975 293
17 Price Waterhouse (UK Firm) Fee Income 1966 94 302
List of Tables
1 Summary of Work by Edwin Waterhouse February December 1864 395
2 Price Waterhouse Fee Income 1866 1914 396
3 Price Waterhouse Profits by Geographical Origin 1866 1914 397
4 Fee Income and Profits of the US Firm of Price Waterhouse
1904 10 398
5 Price Waterhouse Fee Income 1914 45 399
6 Profits of UK Firm by Geographical Origin 1914 45 400
7 The Continental Firm of Price Waterhouse: Operating Statistics
1922 34 401
8 Price Waterhouse Fee Income and Profits 1930 50 402
9 Price Waterhouse Fee Income and Profits 1945—65 4°3
10 Price Waterhouse UK Staffing Levels 1938—51 403
11 London Office Staff Totals 1939—68 4°4
12 Price Waterhouse UK Staff in 1964 405
13 Financial Record of the Newcastle Partnership 1921—59 406
14 Price Waterhouse Fee Income and Profits 1965—75 407
15 Price Waterhouse UK Staff 1970 94 408
16 Price Waterhouse European Firm Partners and Staff in 1970 409
17 The UK Management Consultancy Practice 1976—90 409
18 Price Waterhouse Fee Income 1975 94 410
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