The Big Five were a group of accountancy firms who handled the vast majority of audits for publicly traded corporations. As of early 2002, The Big Five firms were:
- Arthur Andersen
- Deloitte & Touche (formed by merger of Touche Ross and Deloitte Haskins & Sells)
- Ernst & Young (formed by merger of Ernst & Ernst and Arthur Young)
- KPMG (formed by merger of Peat Marwick Mitchell and KMG group)
- PricewaterhouseCoopers (formed by merger of Price Waterhouse and Coopers & Lybrand)
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