Showing posts with label Rankings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rankings. Show all posts

Monday, December 14, 2009

Big Four Firms Dominate Best Places to Intern Rankings


If you want to find a great job upon graduating from college, then starting early appears to be the secret.


Business Week and Bloomberg just released their third annual listing of top undergraduate internship programs in the country based on pay and the percentage of interns who get full-time jobs, and feedback from career services directors...


Thursday, September 10, 2009

Big Four Firms Are Best Places To Launch A Career, Again

BusinessWeek just released its 2009 rankings of its much-anticipated “2009 Best Places To Launch A Career” list and for a second year, Big Four firms completely dominate the list, capturing the top four spots in the rankings. This year, only 69 companies made the list compared to 119 in 2008 due to more stringent criteria, making the 2009 list “both more exclusive and more competitive.” Thus, this year, there was more relative competition to make the list and this year’s rankings are at least 40% tougher than the previous year.

Monday, April 20, 2009

Big4 Firms Make Top 250 in Latest Fortune 500 List

Fortune Magazine just released its Fortune 500 list of top US companies by revenue for the year 2008. Not surprisingly, the top companies in this list were oil giant Exxon at a staggering $443 billion, followed by ubiquitous Walmart at $406 billion, multinational oil companies Chevron at $263 billion & Chevron Phillips at $231 billion and international conglomerate GE at $183 billion. After the top ten, there is a steep drop with number 11 Bank of America at $113 billion and then down the list, number 50 Safeway with $44 billion, and then number 90 Alcoa with $28 billion.

Thursday, June 19, 2008

Big Four Firms Have Top Spots as Desirable Employers

The Universum USA survey of most desirable employers from the perspective of over 40,000 US undergraduates conducted from December 2007-April 2008 puts the Big Four Accounting Firms within the top 20...



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Thursday, January 24, 2008

All Big4 Firms On Fortune's 100 Best Companies To Work For

All Big Four firms recently made it to the recent Fortune magazine's listing of Top 100 US Companies to work for. This ranking is highly anticipated and widely quoted. Deloitte even carried a press release on their inclusion on their website.

Leading the pack in the list was Ernst and Young at #57, followed by KPMG at #71, PricewaterhouseCoopers at #90, and Deloitte at #95.

And here are more interesting numbers from the report. Keep in mind that these are the US firms of the larger international Big Four partnerships, and while some numbers pertain to the US, some others (such as revenue) are for the global firm:

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Monday, September 10, 2007

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP UK turnover up 6%, profits grow 11%


PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP United Kingdom recently reported a 6% increase for FY 2007 turnover to £2.1 billion. PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP FY07 financial year runs from 1 July 2006 to 30 June 2007.

Of this:

  • Assurance increased 4% to £947 million (core audit services grew 8%)
  • Tax turnover sped up 13% to £667 million
  • Turnover in Advisory grew moderately at 4% to £493 million (Performance Improvement Consulting grew by 8%. Net revenue growth in Corporate Finance was 12%)
  • Revenue at Business Recovery Services unit (aka bankruptcy consulting) declined due to good economic conditions


Underlying net revenue increased 9% and underlying profit shot up 11% to £631 million from £586 million in 2006.

Average profit per partner rose 6% to £757,000, with partner numbers up to 822. 56 new partners were admitted on 1 July 2007, with 15 new partners recruited externally during the course of FY07.

Note that turnover includes expenses and disbursements associated with client assignments; and underlying net revenue excludes these items.
Recently we blogged that Deloitte UK reported even stronger results: Sales were up 16% and profits payable to partners were up 17%, profit per partner was £877,00. Deloitte UK has now turnover of £1.8 billion and profits of £572 million and 652 partners.

It appears that Deloitte UK is growing both the top and bottom lines much faster than PwC UK; we don’t have enough reported information to really analyze why this differential exists.


But if this is indicative of global results which are to come shortly, it may not be long before Deloitte beats PwC in revenue as Deloitte posts high double-digits revenue gains versus high single-digits revenue growth for PwC. We shall see in November 2007!

http://www.ukmediacentre.pwc.com/Content/Detail.asp?ReleaseID=2448&NewsAreaID=2