When US multinational Enron collapsed at the end of 2001, staff at Garretts’ Birmingham office would have been forgiven for failing to register the significance of the event to their own destiny.

Four months later, they are on the front line. After years of leveraging high quality work off Arthur Andersen’s national and international network of clients and enjoying the financial benefits of a tie-up with one of the biggest accountancy firms in the world, Garretts’ Birmingham office is getting to grips with an uncertain future.