EY, in third place, was the best performer of the Big Four with global fee income up 5% to $28.655bn, while KPMG was the worst. Its fee income shrank by 2% to $24.44bn. Its fourth position in the rankings is not under threat. BDO may be ranked fifth but is nowhere near KMPG in size – indeed BDO would have to more than double its turnover just to close the gap.
Best performer in the top 10 went to Baker Tilly International, ranked eighth, which saw its global fee income rise by 7% to $3.807bn. Ninth and tenth places went to Crowe Horwath international (up 2% to $3.507bn) and Nexia International (unchanged at $3.083bn) respectively.
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Regionally, Deloitte dwarfs the rest of the Big Four in the Americas with 99,398 staff and fee income of $18.3bn (PwC is second with 66,517 staff and $14.993bn fee income). PwC dominates in the rest of the world.
As far as international associations are concerned, Praxity leads the rankings by a long way, with combined fee income from its member firms of $4.487bn (up 3%). In second place is LEA Global with $3.023bn (no change) and in third is GGI Geneva Group International with $2.311bn (up 8%).