KPMG

At the turn of the century, while the world has yet to witness its first brutal war, four young men are creating another kind of history. In London, the year 1891 a young man unexpectedly assumes the leadership of an accounting firm, rising from a meagre junior clerk to a partner in just 7 years through sheer hard work. He renames the partnership William Barclay Peat & Company. Through a series of mergers and unexpected friendships during wars and bleak economic times, almost a century later, in 1987, one of the world’s biggest and finest accounting firms – KPMG is born.