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Big 4 Auditors and their brief details
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 | $28.2bn | 146,700 | 2008 |
| Deloitte Touche
Tohmatsu |
$27.4bn | 165,000 | 2008 |
| Ernst & Young | $24.5bn | 135,000 | 2008 |
| KPMG | $22.7bn | 137,000 | 2008 |
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| PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS | |
| Type | Limited Liability Partnership |
| Founded | 1849, London (in 1998, firm took on current name) |
| Headquarters | New York City, United States |
| Key people | Sam DiPiazza, CEO |
| Industry | Professional Services |
| Products | Accounting
Audit Consulting Financial advisory Tax |
| Revenue | $28.2 Billion USD (2008) |
| Employees | 155,693 |
| Website | www.pwc.com |
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| Deloitte | |
| Type | Swiss Verein |
| Founded | London, United Kingdom (1845) |
| Headquarters | New York, New York, United States |
| Key people | John Connolly, Chairman
Jim Quigley, CEO |
| Industry | Professional services |
| Services | Audit
Tax Consulting Financial advisory |
| Revenue | US$27.4 billion (2008) |
| Employees | 165,000 (May 2008) |
| Website | www.deloitte.com |
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| Ernst & Young | |
| Type | Member firms have different legal structures, USA and UK: Limited Liability Partnership |
| Founded | 1989; individual components from 1849 |
| Headquarters | London, England, UK (EY Global) |
| Key people | Jim S. Turley, Chairman and CEO |
| Industry | Professional services |
| Services | Audit
Tax Financial advisory |
| Revenue | $24,523 million USD (2008) |
| Employees | 135,730 (Global) |
| Divisions | Assurance, Advisory, Tax, Transaction |
| Website | www.ey.com |
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| KPMG | |
| Type | Swiss Cooperative |
| Founded | 1987; merger of Peat Marwick International
and Klynveld Main Goerdeler |
| Headquart
ers |
New York, NY (global) |
| Key people | Tim Flynn (Chairman and CEO)
John B. Harrison, Chairman KPMG Asia Pacific Region Ben van der Veer, Chairman KPMG Europe, Middle East and Africa Region |
| Industry | Professional services |
| Services | Audit
Tax Advisory |
| Revenue | $22.7 billion USD (2008) |
| Employees | 136,896+ |
| Website | www.kpmg.com |
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