Accountancy Age Top 50 +50 2011
Accountancy Age's 2011 survey of the 100 biggest UK accounting firms
THE THRESHOLD for entry into the Accountancy Age Top 50 has dropped but the gap between Top 50 and +50 has reduced.
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The Top 50 in 2011
| Rank 2011 (2010) |
Name of firm | UK Fee Income (£m) |
% change (vs 2010) | UK partners |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| [1] Forecast to [2] Restated figures [3] Reeves & Neylan LLP merged with FW Stephens to form Reeves & Co LLP [4] Franchisees [5] Figures estimated to October 2011 [6] Part of DTE [7] Estimate based on publicly available information [8] Including Larking Gowen Ltd and Larking Gowen Corporate Finance Ltd |
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| 1 (1) | PwC | 2,331.00 | 4.00 | 845 | |
| 2 (2) | Deloitte | 1,953.00 | -0.81 | 953 | |
| 3 (3) | KPMG | 1,602.00 | -1.50 | 576 | |
| 4 (4) | Ernst & Young | 1,356.00 | -2.00 | 534 | |
| 5 (5) | Grant Thornton UK | 371.50 | -2.50 | 209 | |
| 6 (6) | BDO | 312.20 | -7.00 | 191 | |
| 7 (9) | RSM Tenon Group | 249.00 | 11.00 | 275 | |
| 8 (8) | Baker Tilly | 182.00 | -4.00 | 117 | |
| 9 (9) | Smith & Williamson[2] | 171.40 | 3.10 | 227 | |
| 10 (10) | PKF (UK) | 140.00 | 0.00 | 94 | |
| 11 (11) | Moore Stephens UK | 138.20 | 0.00 | 156 | |
| 12 (12) | Mazars | 108.20 | 4.20 | 109 | |
| 13 (14) | Begbies Traynor | 68.70 | -1.86 | 97 | |
| 14 (15) | Haines Watts Group | 57.80 | 3.80 | 111 | |
| 15 (17) | Crowe Clark Whitehill | 52.10 | 10.85 | 74 | |
| 16 (16) | Saffery Champness | 51.34 | -1.40 | 59 | |
| 17 (18) | UHY Hacker Young | 44.98 | -0.83 | 94 | |
| 18 (19) | Kingston Smith | 41.21 | -3.31 | 62 | |
| 19 (20) | MacIntyre Hudson | 32.43 | 6.00 | 42 | |
| 20 (21) | Chantrey Vellacott DFK | 28.55 | 3.44 | 49 | |
| 21 (22) | Wilkins Kennedy | 28.11 | 2.40 | 56 | |
| 22 (23) | Menzies | 27.91 | 4.70 | 35 | |
| 23 (24) | Johnston Carmichael | 27.85 | 4.10 | 46 | |
| 24 (27) | MCR | 22.50 | 7.14 | 13 | |
| 25 (26) | HW Fisher & Company | 22.20 | -3.06 | 28 | |
| 26 (28) | Buzzacott | 21.96 | 5.60 | 23 | |
| 27 (40) | Reeves & Co[3] | 20.10 | 36.00 | 42 | |
| 28 (25) | Rawlinson & Hunter | 19.00 | – | 13 | |
| 29 (34) | TaxAssist Accountants | 18.89 | 16.00 | 175[4] | |
| 30 (30) | Littlejohn | 17.50 | -4.40 | 28 | |
| 31 (38) | Frank Hirth | 17.34 | 16.00 | 13 | |
| 32 (31) | Armstrong Watson | 16.98 | -1.98 | 26 | |
| 33 (32) | Francis Clark | 16.87 | 0.00 | 34 | |
| 34 (36) | Price Bailey | 16.60 | 6.00 | 20 | |
| 35 (36) | Haysmacintyre | 16.41 | 4.52 | 23 | |
| 36 (33) | Streets | 16.40 | 0.00 | 20 | |
| 37 (35) | Duncan & Toplis | 16.00 | 1.19 | 26 | |
| 38 (41) | Hazlewoods | 15.21 | 7.01 | 23 | |
| 39 (39) | Cooper Parry | 14.31 | -3.90 | 24 | |
| =40 (48) | SJD Accountancy | 14.00[5] | 16.6 | 1 | |
| =40 (42) | Leonard Curtis[6] | 14.00 | 15.00 | 25[7] | |
| =42 (46) | Scott-Moncrieff | 13.60 | 7.00 | 19 | |
| =42 (33) | Shipleys | 13.60 | 1.50 | 21 | |
| 44 (50) | Anderson Anderson & Brown | 13.51 | 15.30 | 12 | |
| 45 (45) | Target Chartered Accountants | 13.50 | 5.00 | 11 | |
| 46 (44) | Lovewell Blake | 13.40 | 1.52 | 21 | |
| 47 (42) | Larking Gowen[8] |
13.30 | -2.20 | 20 | |
| =48 (47) | Mercer & Hole | 11.60 | -4.20 | 19 | |
| =48 (62) | Montpelier Chartered Accountants | 11.60 | 19.50 | 26 | |
| =48 (55) | Beever and Struthers | 11.60 | 7.27 | 24 | |
The next 50 in 2011
| Rank 2011 (2010) |
Name of firm | UK Fee Income (£m) |
% change (vs 2010) | UK partners |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| [1] Estimated [2] Trading as RGL |
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| 51 (53) | Barnes Roffe | 11.58 | 6.90 | 18 |
| 52 (57) | Henderson Loggie | 11.00 | 7.00 | 24 |
| 53 (56) | Hillier Hopkins | 10.80 | 2.65 | 22 |
| =54 (51) | ASE | 10.70 | -0.40 | 5 |
| =54 (58) | Silver Levene | 10.70 | 4.00 | 17 |
| 56 (52) | Simmons Gainsford | 10.62 | -3.01 | 15 |
| 57 (59) | Moore and Smalley | 10.60 | 4.00 | 18 |
| 58 (54) | Bishop Fleming | 10.54 | -0.01[1] | 17 |
| 59 (49) | Haslers | 10.40 | -9.00 | 13 |
| 60 (60) | James Cowper | 10.33 | 3.10 | 14 |
| 61 (64) | Barber Harrison and Platt | 9.93 | 7.40 | 16 |
| 62 (67) | Rothman Pantall | 9.40 | – | 20 |
| 63 (65) | Forrester Boyd | 9.14 | 0.70 | 13 |
| =64 (63) | Thomas Westcott | 8.70 | -5.18 | 16 |
| =64 (68) | Spofforths | 8.70 | -1 | 17 |
| 66 (-) | Smith Cooper | 8.65 | 4.00 | 17 |
| 67 (70) | Berg Kaprow Lewis | 8.63 | 11.96 | 13 |
| 68 (-) | SRLV | 8.20 | 6.30 | 9 |
| 69 (74) | Critchleys Accountants | 8.10 | 9.50 | 14 |
| 70 (69) | Brebners | 8.00 | -1.25 | 17 |
| 71 (-) | RGL[2] | 7.80 | 9.85 | 6 |
| 72 (72) | Dains | 7.35 | -3.39 | 12 |
| 73 (76) | Goodman Jones | 7.33 | 3.24 | 15 |
| 74 (72) | Mitchell Charlesworth | 7.13 | -5.60 | 15 |
| 75 (77) | Chiene & Tait | 6.10 | -4.00 | 7 |
| 76 (81) | Harris Lipman | 5.50 | 6.30 | 11 |
| 77 (80) | Jeffreys Henry | 5.10 | – | 7 |
| =78 (86) | Taylorcocks | 5.06 | 17.00 | 9 |
| =78 (83) | Bird Luckin | 5.06 | 1.78 | 13 |
| 80 (82) | Creaseys | 4.70 | -4.00 | 8 |
| 81 (87) | Broomfield & Alexander | 4.69 | 19.00 | 11 |
| 82 (-) | WKH | 4.51 | 5.60 | 9 |
| 83 (85) | Wingrave Yeats | 4.02 | -11.20 | 7 |
| 84 (-) | Hurst | 4.00 | 10.00 | 12 |
| 85 (88) | Moore Thompson | 3.87 | 2.40 | 9 |
| 86 (90) | Raffingers Stuart | 3.81 | 3.80 | 8 |
| 87 (-) | LB | 3.60 | 10.00 | 7 |
| 88 (-) | Howard Worth | 3.57 | 8.53 | 7 |
| 89 (91) | Bennett Brooks & Co | 3.52 | 1.00 | 7 |
| 90 (89) | EQ Chartered Accountants | 3.50 | -2.40 | 9 |
| 91 (-) | Hilton Sharpe & Clark | 3.46 | – | – |
| 92 (92) | SMP Accounting and Tax | 3.40 | 4.20 | 8 |
| 93 (93) | Hartley Fowler | 3.04 | -5.00 | 6 |
| 94 (94) | HWB | 2.99 | -5.91 | 5 |
| 95 (-) | Ellacotts | 2.70 | 17.00 | 6 |
| 96 (95) | Lambert Chapman | 2.43 | -22.10 | 6 |
| 97 (97) | Lamont Pridmore | 2.35 | 12.30 | 3 |
| 98 (-) | WSM Partners | 2.31 | 5.30 | 4 |
| 99 (96) | Wellden Turnbull | 2.30 | -4.90 | 2 |
| 100 (-) | Taylor Viney & Marlow | 2.07 | -4.40 | 6 |