"Best" U.S. Companies Boasts CPA Firms, Great Plains

Posted by accountingweb on Feb 8 2000 201 printer friendly

Fortune magazine has released its annual list of the Best Companies to work for in America, and making the list this year were two Big 5 firms and one accounting software giant.

Great Plains, a popular provider of back-end office solutions, came in the highest of the three accounting-related companies at Number 15. Deloitte & Touche ranked number 31, and Ernst & Young came in at number 86.

Fortune annually surveys companies in America by sending 250 random questionnaires to company employees, asking them to provide feedback to the magazine based on a variety of factors. Results are tallied and then released.

Leading the list this year of the Most Admired companies is General Electric, followed by Microsoft, Dell Computers and Cisco Systems.

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