Following drops in fee income since the accounting abuses at Enron and WorldCom, this year's Accountancy Age Top 50 league table shows that turnover is rising at the UK's biggest firms.
From static revenues of £6.3bn in 2004, the combined income of the Top 50 firms in the UK this year jumped a little over 6% to £6.7bn.
Accountancy Age's Top 50 is the most respected league table ranking the UK's top accountancy firms, compiled in June each year. Click here for more coverage of this year's results.
| Ranking 2005 | Name of firm | UK fee income (£m) | Year end | Growth | UK partners | Fees per partner (£) |
| 1 | PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP 1 | £1,568.00 | 30/06/04 | 4.0% | 757 | N/A |
| 2 | Deloitte 2 | £1,350.00 | 31/05/05 | 8.0% | 587 | £2,307,692 |
| 3 | KPMG LLP 3 | £1,066.00 | 30/09/04 | 6.0% | 553 | £1,927,500 |
| 4 | Ernst & Young LLP 4 | £828.00 | 30/06/04 | 2.0% | 391 | £2,118,000 |
| 5 | Grant Thornton UK LLP 5 | £254.30 | 30/06/05 | 7.3% | 239 | £1,064,000 |
| 6 | BDO Stoy Hayward 6 | £210.00 | 30/06/05 | 11.8% | 220 | £960,000 |
| 7 | Baker Tilly | £172.90 | 31/03/05 | 3.7% | 143 | £1,212,800 |
| 8 | Smith & Williamson 7 | £127.50 | 30/04/05 | 3.9% | 161 | £792,000 |
| 9 | PKF (UK) LLP | £113.70 | 31/03/05 | 3.0% | 98 | £1,160,000 |
| 10 | Tenon Group plc 8 | £95.00 | 30/06/04 | 10.0% | 131 | £725,000 |
| 11 | RSM Robson Rhodes | £85.50 | 31/04/05 | 14.0% | 89 | £961,000 |
| 12 | Moore Stephens | £83.40 | 31/12/04 | 2.4% | 155 | £538,129 |
| 13 | Mazars 9 | £62.50 | 30/08/05 | 2.8% | 80 | £833,000 |
| 14 | Vantis 10 | £52.50 | ||||
| 15 | Haines Watts 11 | £50.30 | 31/03/05 | 12.0% | 84 | £599,000 |
| 16 | Bentley Jennison 12 | £48.80 | 31/05/05 | 38.0% | 53 | £917,000 |
| 17 | Horwath Clark Whitehill LLP 13 | £35.60 | 31/03/05 | 60 | £594,000 | |
| 18 | Saffery Champness | £34.90 | 31/03/05 | 10.4% | 55 | £635,000 |
| 19 | Kingston Smith | £28.70 | 30/04/05 | 6.0% | 45 | £638,000 |
| 20 | UHY Hacker Young 14 | £26.20 | 30/04/05 | 9.0% | 63 | £416,000 |
| 21 | Chantrey Vellacott DFK | £25.10 | 30/06/05 | 4.1% | 50 | £502,000 |
| 22 | Menzies MRI 15 | £22.40 | 31/03/05 | 4.0% | 38 | £589,000 |
| 23 | MacIntyre Hudson | £21.30 | 31/03/05 | 6.5% | 40 | £533,000 |
| 24 | Johnston Carmichael 16 | £15.27 | 31/05/05 | 24.0% | 33 | £463,000 |
| 25 | Wilkins Kennedy 17 | £15.26 | 30/04/05 | 0.2% | 31 | £492,000 |
| 26 | Ford Campbell | £14.30 | 31/12/04 | 134.0% | 21 | £680,000 |
| 27 | Armstrong Watson | £14.06 | 31/03/05 | 7.2% | 33 | £426,000 |
| 28 | Cooper Parry LLP | £13.10 | 30/04/05 | 15.6% | 20 | £654,000 |
| 29 | Buzzacott | £13.07 | 30/09/04 | 13.1% | 19 | £687,895 |
| 30 | Haysmacintyre | £12.75 | 31/03/05 | 1.1% | 21 | £610,000 |
| 31 | Rothman Pantall & Co | £12.65 | 31/03/05 | 12.0% | 27 | £468,000 |
| 32 | Francis Clark | £12.40 | 30/04/05 | 12.4% | 24 | £517,000 |
| 33 | Lovewell Blake | £12.00 | 30/09/04 | 7.1% | 20 | £600,000 |
| 34 | Littlejohn Frazer | £11.86 | 31/03/05 | 9.8% | 20 | £593,000 |
| 35 | DTE | £11.30 | 30/04/05 | 16.5% | 8 | £1,400,000 |
| 36 | Price Bailey LLP | £11.20 | 31/03/05 | 3.6% | 21 | £533,000 |
| 37 | Duncan & Toplis | £11.10 | 31/03/05 | 6.2% | 27 | £412,000 |
| 38 | Scott-Moncrieff | £11.00 | 30/04/05 | 5.0% | 23 | £480,000 |
| 39 | Reeves & Neylan 18 | £10.70 | 02/04/05 | 15.0% | 23 | £464,000 |
| 40 | Mercer & Hole | £10.40 | N/A | 14.3% | 16 | £650,000 |
| 41 | Hazlewoods LLP | £10.32 | 30/04/05 | 11.2% | 15 | £688,000 |
| 42 | Larking Gowen | £10.20 | 31/03/05 | 2.2% | 17 | £602,000 |
| 43 | AGN Shipleys | £9.50 | 30/04/05 | 3.3% | 13 | £730,769 |
| 44 | Haslers Chartered Accountants & Business Advisers 19 | £9.45 | 31/12/04 | 13.5% | 11 | £859,000 |
| 45 | Barnes Roffe LLP | £8.60 | 31/12/04 | 24.6% | 13 | £662,000 |
| 46 | Streets LLP | £8.40 | 30/06/04 | 13.5% | 13 | £646,000 |
| 47 | Berg Kaprow Lewis 20 | £8.40 | 31/03/05 | 12.0% | 13 | £646,000 |
| 48 | Morley and Scott | £8.30 | 30/09/04 | 2.5% | 17 | £488,000 |
| 49 | Bishop Fleming | £8.20 | 05/04/05 | 9.2% | 20 | £412,000 |
| 50 | Pridie Brewster | £7.90 | 31/07/04 | 5.3% | 14 | £564,285 |
