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<text id=89TT1841>
<title>
July 17, 1989: Business Notes:Accouting
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
July 17, 1989 Death By Gun
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
BUSINESS, Page 77
Business Notes
ACCOUNTING
The Big Eight, Seven, Six . . .
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<p> Like nervous bachelors worried they may never find a mate,
many of the Big Eight accounting firms in the U.S. have begun
stampeding to the altar. Last week Deloitte, Haskins & Sells and
Touche Ross announced that they had agreed to join forces as
Deloitte & Touche (total revenues: $3.9 billion). Earlier the
same day Arthur Andersen and Price Waterhouse revealed that they
too have begun negotiating a merger that would produce a $4.9
billion firm. The announcements followed a decision by Ernst &
Whinney and Arthur Young in June to consummate their own $4.3
billion corporate marriage.
</p>
<p> The passion to merge has been fueled by the desire of major
firms to become global competitors. "The cost of doing business
is much greater today than it was 15 years ago," says William
Grollman, professor of accounting at Fordham University's
Graduate School of Business. "Mergers reduce these costs and
eliminate a competitor."
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</body></article>
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