KPMG Undisputed M&A Champ for 2012
KPMG swept ANR’s Big Four annual rankings based on Thomson Reuters Worldwide Announced Advisor data.
E&Y and PwC Split as Top Fortune Auditors
Ernst & Young has the largest audit client list among Fortune 500 companies, according to the latest analysis by ANR and AuditAnalytics.com
Leading SEC Registrant Auditors for 2012
The 12 largest auditors of SEC registrants (Ernst & Young/New York; PwC/New York; KPMG/New York; Deloitte/New York; Grant Thornton/Chicago; BDO USA/Chicago; McGladrey & Pullen/Minneapolis; MaloneBailey/Houston; Crowe Horwath/Oak Brook, Ill.; M&K/Houston; Marcum/Melville, N.Y. and De Joya Griffith & Co./Henderson, Nev.) audit more than half, 53.9%, of the SEC registrant clients, according to the 2012 SEC registrant auditor analysis by AuditAnalytics.com and ANR.
Big Four Snap Losing Streak
The Big Four firms broke the two-year “losing streak” related to the group's revenue growth rate.
The four largest accounting firms have an actual composite revenue growth rate for the group for FY11:
8.7%
KPMG Wears ANR Audit Ranking Crown in 2011
KPMG rode the wave of two quarterly wins to the overall top spot in ANR’s full year analysis of SEC auditor change data.