Price Waterhouse

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Price Waterhouse was a major international accounting firm that later became part of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), one of the world’s largest professional services networks.

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instanceOf accounting firm
partnership
professional services firm
brandRetired 1998
country United Kingdom
foundedBy Edwin Waterhouse
Samuel Lowell Price
William Hopkins Holyland
foundedIn London, England
surface form: London
hadOfficeIn London, England
surface form: London

New York City
Paris
Sydney
Tokyo
inception 1849
industry accounting
auditing
management consulting
tax advisory
languageOfName English
memberOf Big Four auditors
surface form: Big Four accounting firms precursor
mergedInto Price, Waterhouse & Co.
surface form: PricewaterhouseCoopers
mergerDate 1998
mergerPartner Coopers & Lybrand
namedAfter Edwin Waterhouse
Samuel Lowell Price
notableEvent merger creating one of the world’s largest professional services networks
operatedIn Africa
Asia
Europe
Latin America
North America
Oceania
originalName Price, Holyland & Waterhouse
partOf Big Eight accounting firms
Big Eight accounting firms
surface form: Big Six accounting firms
providedService financial statement audit
management consulting services
tax compliance
tax planning
transaction advisory services
servedClientType financial institutions
governments
multinational corporations
shortName PW
successor PricewaterhouseCoopers
successorBrand PricewaterhouseCoopers
surface form: PwC

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Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins shortName Price Waterhouse
Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins defendant Price Waterhouse
Ann Hopkins employer Price Waterhouse
Marv Goldklang formerEmployer Price Waterhouse
Price, Waterhouse & Co. alsoKnownAs Price Waterhouse