Ernst, Arthur Young voting on merger

From: Chicago Sun-Times | Date: June 21, 1989| Author: Susan Chandler | Copyright information

Ernst & Whinney partners in Chicago are voting today on their firm's proposed merger with Arthur Young & Co., a combination that would create the world's largest accounting firm.

Partners in Washington, D.C., cast their votes Tuesday, and Dallas partners will vote tomorrow. Arthur Young partners around the country will vote as a group tomorrow in Dallas.

Although a proposed merger between two other Big Eight firms - Deloitte Haskins & Sells and Price Waterhouse - failed to ...

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