2011 TOP 100 FIRMS DATABANK
Overview
Firms over
$100 mn chg.
$5,488.49 - 2.46
3,473 - 1.86
19,170 -5.73
29,468 -5.09
Revenue (in $mn)
Partners
Professionals
Total employees
Top 6
firms
$33,425.57
10,402
96,086
133,540
%
chg.
- 2.40
- 3.34
1.02
-0.84
Fee split
Audit & Attest
Tax
MAS (consulting)
Other
Rev. share
(in $mn)
$14,150.39
$9,036.92
$9,360.95
$877.31
%
of rev.
42.33
27.04
28.01
2.62
Rev. share %
(in $mn) of rev.
$2,664.49 48.55
1,641.03 29.90
1,083.68 19.74
$96.24 1.75
Firms under Total Top %
$100 mn chg. 100 Firms chg.
$3,656.06 2.77 $42,570.12 - 1.98
2,615 2.63 16,490 - 1. 29
14,223 0.47 129,479 -0.10
21,421 0.09 184,429 -0.80
Rev. share Rev. share %
(in $mn) of rev. (in $mn) of rev.
$1,574.28 43.06 $18,389.16 43.20
$1,234.83 33.77 $11,912.79 27.98
$505.28 13.82 $10,949.91 25.72
$341.67 9.35 $1,315.22 3.09
Note: Some figures may not correspond exactly due to rounding.
Leaders in A&A
Ranked by revenue
Rev. share Fee
Top 6 firms ($ mn) split
1. PwC § $4,097.34 51
2. Deloitte § 3,718.92 34
3. Ernst & Young § 2,982.00 42
4. KPMG § 2,248.94 46
5. RSM / McGladrey & Pullen 1 595.05 43
6. Grant Thornton 510.28 47
Firms over $100 mn
1. BDO USA 62
2. Crowe Horwath 66
3. BKD 51
4. Moss Adams 49
362.70
317.46
199.41
154.84
5. Plante & Moran 49
146.18
Firms under $100 mn
1. Cherry, Bekaert & Holland 57
2. Carr, Riggs & Ingram 65
3. Marks Paneth & Shron 62
4. Kearney & Co. 67
56.08
55.80
55.80
48.54
5. O’Connor Davies 70
45.33
Leaders in Tax
Ranked by revenue
Rev. share Fee
Top 6 firms ($ mn) split
1. PwC § $2,410.20 30
2. Deloitte § 2,296.98 21
3. Ernst & Young § 2,272.00 32
4. KPMG § 1,271.14 26
5. RSM / McGladrey & Pullen 1 475.51 35
6. Grant Thornton 304.00 28
Firms over $100 mn
1. CBIZ / MHM † 27
2. BDO USA 26
3. BKD 31
4. Crowe Horwath 23
155.33
152.10
121.21
110.63
5. Moss Adams 33
104.28
Firms under $100 mn
1. Holthouse Carlin & Van Trigt 70
2. Anchin, Block & Anchin 43
3. Berdon 38
4. Goodman & Co. 40
45.50
38.27
35.34
34.80
5. Cherry, Bekaert & Holland 34
33.45
Leaders in MAS
Ranked by revenue
Rev. share Fee
Top 6 firms ($ mn) split
1. Deloitte § $4,484.58 41
2. PwC § 1,526.46 19
3. Ernst & Young § 1,420.00 20
4. KPMG § 1,368.92 28
5. RSM / McGladrey & Pullen 1 292.63 21
6. Grant Thornton 271.43 25
Firms over $100 mn
1. CBIZ / MHM † 50
2. BKD 18
3. BDO USA 12
4. Clifton Gunderson 27
287.65
70.38
70.20
65.61
5. Marcum 25
62.70
Firms under $100 mn
1. Blue & Co. 59
2. Berdon 30
3. Watkins Meegan 53
4. Kearney & Co. 33
29.80
27.90
24.38
23.91
5. Sikich 40
22. 20
Pacesetters in growth
Ranked by chg.
Firms over $100 mn.
1. Citrin Cooperman & Co.
2. Marcum
3. Eide Bailly
4. LarsonAllen
5. Reznick Group
Firms under $100 mn.
1. Gallina
2. O’Connor Davies
3. Doeren Mayhew
4. Blue & Co.
5. Rosen Seymour
100.00
250.80
151.80
227.00
191.53
Revenue
($mn)
31.50
64.75
43.70
50.50
49.60
17.65
7. 29
6.68
4. 13
1.02
%
chg.
31. 25
27.96
21.09
20. 24
17.81
Overall Top 100 Firms
1. Gallina
2. O’Connor Davies
3. Doeren Mayhew
4. Blue & Co.
5. Rosen Seymour
6. Citrin Cooperman & Co.
7. Honkamp Krueger & Co.
8. Argy, Wiltse & Robinson
9. Nigro Karlin
10. Weaver
11. RGL Forensics
12. Sikich
13. Novogradac & Co.*
14. Kearney & Co.
15. Armanino McKenna
16. SS&G
Revenue
($mn)
31.50
64.75
43.70
50.50
49.60
100.00
31.48
50.00
41.09
65.30
38.88
55.50
65.41
72.45
71.45
64.80
%
chg.
31. 25
27.96
21.09
20. 24
17.81
17.65
13.93
13.87
13.67
12.39
10.77
10. 12
10.08
9.62
9. 28
9.09
17. Alpern Rosenthal 34.06 8.75
18. Holthouse Carlin & Van Trigt 65.00 8.33
19. Postlethwaithe & Netterville 38.17 8.01
20. Marcum 250.80 7. 29
21. Friedman 64.20 7.00
22. Eide Bailly 151.80 6.68
23. Morrison, Brown 68.00 5.92
24. Marks Paneth & Shron 90.00 5.88
25. Berdon 93.00 5.68
26. Whitley Penn 32. 10 5.59
27. The Bonadio Group* 43.56 5.22
Notes: Firm estimate or projection
† AT estimate § Gross revenue
1 RSM reported fee split both as percent and
in dollar amounts
For more details on individual firms, see footnotes on pages 15-18.
