Plante & Moran, with a net of 34 new SEC audit clients, accounts for the largest number of new clients among all audit firms in 2018. A merger with EKS&H in Q4 2018 brought on 31 of Plante & Moran’s … Continue reading
Category Archives: Market Share
Auditor Changes Roundup: Q4 2018
Plante & Moran, with a net of 33 new SEC audit clients, accounts for the largest number of new clients among all firms this quarter. Prager Metis followed with 26 new clients. The October 2018 merger between Plante & Moran … Continue reading
Q4 2018 IPOs: Auditor Market Share and Stats
Overview There were 55 initial public offerings in U.S. markets between October 1, 2018, and December 31, 2018. These 55 IPOs raised roughly $9.5 billion, a decrease of over $3 billion from the same period last year and a decrease of $4 billion … Continue reading
BDO and Moore Stephens to Merge in the UK
Last week, BDO and Moore Stephens announced plans for the two United Kingdom firms to merge. This is yet another major event in the UK audit market to occur in the past few months. Not long ago, Grant Thornton issued … Continue reading
Auditor Market Share among Broker-Dealers
The Audit Analytics Broker-Dealer database contains information from over 84,000 focus reports filed by approximately 8,800 broker-dealers since January 1, 2001. Key data points collected include auditor, revenue, total assets, and contacts. In this post, we take a look at … Continue reading
Trends in Auditor Market Concentration in Select European Countries
When the European Union recently enacted sweeping regulation of the auditor market, requiring, among other things, auditor rotation at least every 20 years, one of the stated goals was to increase competition in the market. The hope was two-pronged: first, … Continue reading
Auditor Changes Roundup: Q3 2018
Marcum, with a net of 22 new SEC audit clients, accounts for the largest number of new clients among all firms this quarter. Marcum’s merger with GBH CPAs in July 2018 is a key factor in the significant gain of … Continue reading