The Big 4, sometimes written as the Big Four, are the four largest international accountancy and professional services firms, which handle the vast majority of audits for publicly traded companies as well as many private companies.
Append below is 2007’s revenue & manpower chalked up by the big accounting four:-
|
Firm |
Revenues(USD) |
People |
Fiscal Year |
|
Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu |
$23.1bn |
165,000 |
2007 |
|
PricewaterhouseCoopers |
$25.2bn |
146,700 |
2007 |
|
Ernst & Young |
$21.1bn |
130,000 |
2007 |
|
KPMG |
$19.8bn |
123,000 |
2007 |
Combined, the Big Four firms had a total revenue of $89.2 billion. If the firms were to continue this level of performance, the combined total would exceed a hundred billion dollars in 2008 !
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