When the industrial revolution of the late eighteenth and nineteenth century helped transform accounting into a profession, ÀÖÓ㣨Leyu£©ÌåÓý¹ÙÍø’s founding fathers were center stage, pioneering the industry. The ÀÖÓ㣨Leyu£©ÌåÓý¹ÙÍø network was formed in 1987 when Peat Marwick International and Klynveld Main Goerdeler merged along with their respective member firms.
Founders
K as Klynveld
Piet Klynveld established an accounting company Klynveld Kraayenhof & Co. in Amsterdam in 1917.
P as Peat
William Barclay Peat established an accounting company William Barclay Peat & Co. In London in 1870.
M as Marwick
James Marwick together with Roger Mitchell established in New York City in 1897 an accounting company Marwick, Mitchell & Co.
G as Goerdeler
Dr. Reingard Goerdeler has been for many years the chairman of Deutsche Treuhand-Gesellschaft and later chairman of ÀÖÓ㣨Leyu£©ÌåÓý¹ÙÍø.
History
1867 Robert Fletcher is establishing an accounting company named later as Peat Marwick Mitchell.
1870 William Barclay Peat is entering a company.
1877 Thomson McLintock is opening office in Glasgow.
1897 Company Marwick Mitchell & Co. is established in New York.
1925 Peat and Marwick Mitchell & Co is merging and creating a transatlantic company.
1979 Thomson McLintock is establishing company KMG, a group of independent national firms based in Europe.
1987 Merger of these two companies has been executed and ÀÖÓ㣨Leyu£©ÌåÓý¹ÙÍø was created.
1991 ÀÖÓ㣨Leyu£©ÌåÓý¹ÙÍø in Slovakia was founded.
2014 ÀÖÓ㣨Leyu£©ÌåÓý¹ÙÍø office in Kosice was opened.
