D&B Israel ranks Kost, Forer, Gabbay and Kasierer - Ernst & Young (Israel) as Israel’s largest CPA firm and KPMG - Somekh Haikin as the second largest.
D&B Israel’s 2006 rankings of CPA firms is the same as for 2005. D&B Israel did not take into account the merger of BDO Ziv Haft and Barnir, which created Israel’s second largest CPA firm. D&B Israel’s rankings are based on a number of variables, including number of employees, the number of large corporate clients, the number of offerings handled, and revenue of companies on the D&B Israel strength index.
The 2006 rankings are as follows: Kost, Forer, Gabbay and Kasierer - Ernst & Young (Israel), KPMG - Somech Haikin, Deloitte-Brightman-Almagor, Kesselman and Kesselman - PricewaterhouseCoopers Israel, BDO Ziv Haft, and Fahn Kanne & Co. Grant Thornton). Fahn Kanne was included in D&B Israel’s secondary list last year. Except for Kost, Forer, Gabbay and Kasierer, there is no correlation between the number of a firm’s employees, revenue or offerings.
Published by Globes [online], Israel business news - www.globes.co.il - on July 9, 2006
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