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 |