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Arthur Levitt on PwC's Deal to Buy Booz: 'We Are Slipping Back'

Former SEC Chairman Arthur Levitt advocated rules to keep accounting firms from providing both auditing and consulting services to a clientPhotograph by Peter Foley/Bloomberg

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By Ira Sager

October 30, 2013 at 11:04 PM UTC

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After the 2001 collapse of Enron, auditing firms came under pressure from regulators to separate their auditing and consulting businesses. In 2002, PricewaterhouseCoopers sold its consulting business to IBM for $3.5 billion.

On Wednesday, the auditing firm made it clear it wants back into that business, agreeing to buy the consulting firm Booz & Co. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.