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Enhancing the Big Four accounting firms pages
I am hoping, in the coming weeks, to focus on enhancing the wiki pages for the Big Four accounting firms. I would be interested in feedback from other editors about details that are missing from these pages, information that is inaccurate and other suggestions. I look forward to collaborating on these efforts. Icanseearainbow (talk) 07:26, 22 May 2017 (UTC)

I'm new here, and not sure how to "talk" but I'm guessing this is it. I think the history of the accounting firms is not quite accurate. My mother used to work for Main, Hurdman, and Cranston, (and I recall her referring to the "Big 12", which would not appear to be a thing), and I believe the history of mergers chart is not accurate with respect to KPMG. It appears that there were two important mergers that took place in June of 1979 and July of 1979 that ultimately created KMG, neither of which is reflected in the history. On June 20, 1979, the NYT published the following "Main Lafrentz & Company, the nation's 10th‐largest accounting firm, and Hurdman and Cranstoun, the 15th largest, announced yesterday tentative plans to merge." ( https://www.nytimes.com/1979/06/20/archives/main-lafrentz-planning-merger-with-hurdman.html ). And then, apparently on July 26, 1979, the Wall Street Journal published a story (referenced in the cited article, though I could not find the original WSJ article) that "Thus, the first major accounting firm merger of the 1980s joined the “Big Eight” firm, Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co., and the international firm, KMG Main Hurdman. KMG Main Hurdman had been created in 1979 by a merger of accounting firms from West Germany, Netherlands, Britain, Canada, and Australia and the American firm of Main Hurdman & Cranstoun [Wall Street Journal, 26 July 1979]." ( https://www.accountingin.com/accounting-historians-journal/volume-19-number-1/the-development-of-the-big-eight-accounting-firms-in-the-united-states-1900-to-1990/ - near the bottom of the page.)

This would explain my mother's working for a firm named Main, Hurdman, and Cranston, which does not appear in the history chart.

I hope this is helpful.

Thanks Philvish (talk) 18:57, 23 June 2021 (UTC)

Splitting discussion for Bond (finance)


An article that been involved with ( Bond (finance) ) has content that is proposed to be removed and moved to another article (List of foreign currency bonds). If you are interested, please visit the discussion. Thank you. A. C. Santacruz &#8258; Please ping me! 15:42, 30 March 2022 (UTC)

Cash
In reviewing the lead section of Cash, I noticed that we don't have a distinct article for the concept in accounting, as described in the lead of that article. Do members of this wikiproject think that a distinct article (at, say, Cash (accounting)) would be sensible? — HTGS (talk) 01:32, 30 June 2022 (UTC)

Request to change a link in the "part of a series on Accounting" navigation side bar
Would it be possible to change the link in the section "Accounting Standards" that currently says "Generally accepted principles" and links to Accounting_standard (Redirected from Generally accepted accounting principles). My suggestion is to replace this link with, or add a new link in this section to the article Generally_Accepted_Accounting_Principles_(United_States) The problem with the current link is that the page referenced did not go where I was expecting it to. But on the other hand it contains a list of articles for various countries so I got where I wanted just with an additional click. Thank you. 2601:642:4981:96E0:5193:EE9E:AC6F:F8EB (talk) 20:04, 3 November 2023 (UTC)

Suggestion for Oil depletion allowance to be a project
I want to suggest the following as a project here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_depletion_allowance Starlighsky (talk) 02:32, 31 December 2023 (UTC)