Background
Pieter Klijnveld was born on 16 August 1874 in Amsterdam in the Netherlands. He was the son of Pieter Klijnveld Senior and Maria Christina Klijnveld.
Pieter Klijnveld was born on 16 August 1874 in Amsterdam in the Netherlands. He was the son of Pieter Klijnveld Senior and Maria Christina Klijnveld.
After working at the Amsterdam office of the Twentsche Bank (a precursor of Algemene Bank Nederland Amro), he opened a small accountancy practice in 1917 in his home on the Viottastraat. lieutenant would take a few years before a second office was in use on the Tesselschadestraat. Amsterdam was a bustling trade and investment hub for European and Asian industrialists.
Many foreign enterprises, including royalty, governments, and even the Bank of England, traded extensively in the Netherlands at the time, making it an active market for financiers as well as importers and exporters of virtually everything.
Klijnveld became the chief accountant to many of these emerging businesses. To meet the demands of his growing client roster, he teamed up with a local tax firm called Meijburg & Company.
They had an art collection that included amongst others works by Piet Mondriaan. Specializing in banking and exporting, KKC kept its name and independence by serving Dutch clients who were expanding throughout Europe and South America.
In 1979, Klynveld Main Goerdeler (KMG) was formed with the merger of Klynveld Kraayenhof & Company, Deutsche Treuhand-Gesellschaft (DTG), and McLintock Main Lafrentz to create a strong European-based international firm.
In 1987, KMG and Peat Marwick International (Project Management Institute) combined in the first mega-merger of large accounting firms forming Klynveld Peat Marwick Goerdeler.