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INTERNATIONAL PRACTICE By J. Harry Williams & SELLS, CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS, 30 Broad St., New York. Chicago Office. London Office.. .20* Deart>orn St. ...30 Coleman St. ANNOUNCE the opening of an office at 30 Coleman Street, London, E. C. A number of the large British accounting firms had established offices in the United States before the turn of the century, among them Deloitte, Plender, Griffith & Co. (1890), but the opening of our office in London on April 1, 1901 was, I believe, the first instance of a reversal of this trend. An announcement which appeared that day in London and New York newspapers is represented at the left. It shows that the London Office was the third to be established by our Firm, the Chicago Office having been opened in 1900. Why did Haskins & Sells venture abroad so early in its career? The answer is simple—to serve our clients who had established foreign operations. The basic policy established by the founders of our Firm with the opening of the London Office has not changed; we must be in a position to serve our clients where ever in the world they wish to operate. One of these clients who had ventured abroad and needed service in London just before we opened our office was Barnum and Bailey Circus. After World War I, the flow of American capital abroad began to assume really significant proportions. In line with our policy, the Firm kept pace. H & S offices were opened in Havana and Shanghai in 1919, in Paris in 1920, in Berlin in 1924, and Manila in 1926. Except for Havana, practice in these offices was suspended because of World War II, and practice in Havana was suspended by Castro. Paris was reopened shortly after the war; Shanghai and Manila could not be reopened— Shanghai because of the Communist takeover, and Manila because of restrictive legislation regulating the professions adopted by the Philippine government shortly after independence. In Germany we moved the domicile of our Wirtschaftspruefungesellschaft (literally: certified public accounting firm) from Berlin to Dusseldorf, reactivated it, and changed its name from Haskins & Sells to Deloitte, Plender, Haskins & Sells. There is no precise date marking the establishment of our long relationship with the fine British firm of Deloitte, Plender, Griffith & Co. However, we do know that DPG&Co. collaborated with us in rendering certain professional services in an insurance investigation in New York in 1905-06. We know, too, that Deloittes rendered services overseas to certain of our clients from time to time thereafter, but it was not until 1924 that the relationship was formalized by combining our practices in Canada, Mexico, and Cuba (where Deloittes had maintained offices for many years) and organizing 8
Object Description
Title |
International practice |
Author |
Anonymous |
Contributor |
Stevens, Roy |
Subject |
Deloitte, Plender, Griffiths & Co. |
Personal Name |
Williams, J. Harry |
Portrait |
Williams, J. Harry |
Office/Department |
Haskins & Sells Haskins &Sells. Madrid Office |
Citation |
H&S Reports, Vol. 01, (1964 spring), p. 08-11 |
Date-Issued | 1964 |
Source | Originally published by: Haskins & Sells |
Rights | Copyright and permission to republish held by: Deloitte; Photograph by Roy Stevens |
Type | Text |
Format | PDF page image with corrected OCR scanned at 400 dpi |
Collection | Deloitte Digital Collection |
Digital Publisher | University of Mississippi Library. Accounting Collection |
Date-Digitally Created | 2010 |
Language | eng |
Identifier | HSReports_1964_Spring-p8-11 |