Accenture (formerly Andersen Consulting): The WetFeet.com Insider Guide (Wetfoot.Com Insider Guide)

Do you want to know what a job in this industry is really like - and do you want to know it quickly? WetFeet has the best research (and writing) team in the business. WetFeet guides are the industry standard - based on thousands of insider interviews and written with humor and skill, our materials are recognized by candidates and companies alike as the insider guide of choice. Andersen Consulting is the biggest consulting firm in the world, and still growing like gangbusters; the firm's revenues grew by more than 20% annually every year from 1994 to 1997. Formed in 1989, the firm very quickly moved to the head of the industry both by concentrating in its traditional strength in IT consulting and by moving into other fields - management consulting, human resources consulting, and outsourcing, among others - in a big way. Now it's trying to break its ties with its parent firm, the tax and accounting giant Arthur Andersen. Will it succeed in its quest for independence? Will the...