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Price Waterhouse

A simplified family tree for the firm of Price Waterhouse showing the development of the firm and how the firm's name has evolved.

Family tree

Image of the family tree for Price Waterhouse
This tree is reproduced with the kind permission of Peter Boys and Accountancy magazine. It was originally published in the October 1989 issue of Accountancy (p160).

Amendments

Price Waterhouse merged with Coopers & Lybrand to form PricewaterhouseCoopers from 1 July 1998 (Accountancy, July 1998, p.10 and Accountancy Age, 4 June 1998, p.1).

What's in a name: Firms' simplified family trees

Between January and December 1989, accounting historian Peter Boys prepared a series of simplified family trees showing the development of the big accountancy firms of the day.

The original trees from 1989 have been reproduced here with a series of textual updates from Peter Boys which have taken the story forward to May 2005, the 125th anniversary of ICAEW. Since then, the staff of the ICAEW Library & Information Service have added notes on further changes that have taken place.

If you are aware of any further information which would add to or improve the accuracy of the family trees please let us know.

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