Assistant Audit Officer
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Posted on 17 December 2008
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. The Big Four firms are shown below, with their latest publicly available data:
| Firm |
Revenues |
Employees |
Fiscal Year |
| PricewaterhouseCoopers [1] |
$28.2bn |
146,700 |
2008 |
| Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu [2] |
$27.4bn |
165,000 |
2008 |
| Ernst & Young [3] |
$24.5bn |
130,000 |
2008 |
| KPMG [4] |
$19.8bn |
123,000 |
2007 |
This group was once known as the "Big Eight", and was reduced to the "Big Five" by a series of mergers. The Big Five became the Big Four after the near-demise of Arthur Andersen in 2002, following its involvement in the Enron Scandal.
Source: Wikipedia