Monday, October 16, 2006

How do the Big 4 Firms Rank in the Fortune 500?

Accenture (NYSE: ACN) came out 379th in the recent international Fortune 500 2006 ranking. In 2005, Accenture just made the cut with a rank of 455 out of 500.

Accenture's (NYSE: ACN) revenue of $17.1 billion and profit of $940 million makes it rank 3rd in the Computer Services and Software industry behind Microsoft and Electronic Data Systems.

Accenture (NYSE: ACN) is sandwiched between Hindustan Petroleum (rank 378) and Lear Corporation (rank 380)

Where would the Big Four firms place on the Fortune List based on their revenue? We estimate their ranking as below. PwC would come out in the 300s with over $20 billion, followed by Deloitte and Touche at rank 323 and Ernst and Young at rank 352 and Accenture at 379. The last one making the cut is KPMG at rank 430. The others did not even make the cut...

PricewaterhouseCoopers
2005 revenue: $20.2 billion
Rank: 321

Deloitte and Touche
2006 revenue: $20.0 billion
Rank: 323

Ernst and Young
2006 revenue: $18.4 billion
Rank: 352

Accenture (NYSE: ACN)
2006 revenue: $17.1 billion
Rank: 379

KPMG
2005 revenue: $15.7 billion
Rank: 430

CapGemini
2006 revenue: $9.8 billion estimated
Rank: Not in Fortune 500 Ranking

BearingPoint (NYSE: BE)
2005 revenue: $3.6 billion approx
Rank: Not in Fortune 500 Ranking

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

The Deloitte numbers listed in this post don't seem to match up with their annual review figures. See: http://www.deloitte.com/dtt/article/0,1002,sid%3D123398%26cid%3D129167,00.html

Big4 said...

We have made the correction with Deloitte's recently published 2006 annual revenues of $20 billion, which places it at rank 323, thanks for pointing out.

GHolamhossein Davani said...

Furtune ranking is relate to revenue/Sale.This ranking is not fair.

GHolamhossein Davani said...

The best factors for accounting firm ranking is quality control, fair measurment and revenue.we can't ranking accounting firm similar product or oher services Co.The nature and concept of auditing are very different with commercial Co.

Erik said...

PWC had $22 billion in gross revenues for FY2006.

http://www.pwc.com/extweb/aboutus.nsf/docid/78BEC973D298A8D38525720C000DEA94