Big Four accounting firms

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The Big Four are the four largest international accountancy firms, alternatively the four largest professional services networks, offering audit, assurance, tax, consulting, advisory, actuarial, corporate finance, and legal services. They handle the vast majority of auditsfor publicly traded companies as well as many private companies. It is reported that the Big Four audit 99% of the companies in the FTSE 100, and 96% of the companies in the FTSE 250 Index, an index of the leading mid-cap listing companies.^[1]

The Big Four firms are shown below, with their latest publicly available data.

Firm	Revenues	Employees	Revenue per employee	Fiscal year	Headquarters	Source
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)	$35.4 bn	208,100	$169,892	2015	United Kingdom	^[2]
Deloitte	$35.2 bn	225,400	$156,167	2015	United States	^[3]
Ernst & Young (EY)	$28.7 bn	212,000	$135,517	2015	United Kingdom	^[4]
KPMG	$24.4 bn	173,965	$140,488	2015	Netherlands	^[5]

This group was once known as the "Big Eight", and was reduced to the "Big Six" and then "Big Five" by a series of mergers. The Big Five became the Big Four after the fall of Arthur Andersen in 2002, following its involvement in the Enron scandal.

BDO International (BDO) and Grant Thornton International (Grant Thornton) are the fifth and sixth largest firms, respectively.

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