Big Five Prominent on Forbes Annual List

Posted by accountingweb on Oct 16 2000 60 printer friendly

Leading the pack on the Forbes Magazine annual list of the 500 largest private companies in terms of revenue is Cargill, followed by Koch Industries. Third on the list is PricewaterhouseCoopers and Arthur Andersen is fourth.

Here’s the rundown of all accounting firms on the list, ranked by annual revenue:

1999
Rank	Firm	Revenue	Employees
3	PricewaterhouseCoopers	$17,300m	150,000
4	Andersen Worldwide	$15,200m	140,000
7	Ernst & Young	$12,500m	97,800
8	KPMG	$12,200m	102,000
10	Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu	$10,800m	97,500
94	BDO International	$1,610m	17,500
97	Grant Thornton	$1,600m	21,400

Firm	1998 Rank	1997 Rank	1996 Rank
PricewaterhouseCoopers	6	25	26
Andersen Worldwide	8	7	8
Ernst & Young	11	10	13
KPMG	12	9	11
Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu	14	14	17
BDO International	115	130	n/a
Grant Thornton	108	116	121

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