Top 50 +50 Accountancy Firms 2009

It's a jungle out there for the profession, which is desperately trying to navigate itself through the dense and oppressive foliage of the recession and emerge fit enough to take advantage of more clement conditions on the other side.

So far, many firms are wilting in the heat, while just a few of the fittest are standing strong. The annual Accountancy Age Top 50 survey has found that four in five firms saw growth rate slow, some dramatically, on previous years - nine posting negative growth figures.

For full coverage of our 2009 Top 50 Firms and +50 Firms, including news, features and analysis, go to our special report .

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The Top 50

Ranking 2009 (2008)	Name of firm	UK fee income (£m)	Growth (2008)	Year end	UK partners	Fees per partner
1 (1)	PricewaterhouseCoopers	2244.0	7.00 (6.00)	30/06/08	853	2.60
2 (2)	Deloitte	2010.0	11.5 (15.60)	31/05/08	672	2.99
3 (3)	KPMG	1619.0	0.70 (11.00)	30/09/08	567	2.85
4 (4)	Ernst & Young	1282.0	4.60 (9.00)	30/06/08	493
5 (5)	Grant Thornton	394.1	1.32 (10.2)	30/06/08	291	1.35
6 (6)	BDO Stoy Hayward	353.1	11.00 (10.30)	04/07/08	235	1.50
7 (7)	Baker Tilly	204.0	0.00 (9.20	31/03/09	116	1.75
8 (8)	Smith & Williamson	189.3	6.00 (13.40)	30/04/09	218	0.86
9 (10)	Tenon Group	160.3	17.00 (11.90)	30/06/08	177	0.91
10 (9)	PKF	141.3	-1.00 (10.00)	31/03/09	98	1.44
11 (11)	Moore Stephens	126.1	5.00 (12.00)	31/12/08	163	0.77
12 (12)	Mazars	102.0	1.00 (11.80)	31/08/09	105
13 (13)	Vantis	97.5	3.00 (10.00)	30/04/09	144
14 (14)	RSM Bentley Jennison	80.3	10.91 (13.70)	31/05/09	76	1.06
15 (-)	Begbies Traynor	61.2	25.00 (-)	30/04/09
16 (15)	Haines Watts	58.2	-3.00 (11.10)	31/03/09	96	0.61
17 (16)	Saffery Champness	51.4	4.9 (9.60)	31/03/09	58	0.89
18 (17)	Horwath Clark Whitehill	46.4	-0.49 (14.00)	31/03/09	69	0.67
19 (18)	UHY Hacker Young	45.0	4.00 (10.00)	30/04/09	88	0.51
20 (19)	Kingston Smith	43.3	4.98 (17.10)	30/04/09	56	0.77
21 (21)	MacIntyre Hudson	30.9	14.00 (11.30)	31/03/09	48	0.64
22 (23)	Wilkins Kennedy	27.4	15.49 (33.90)	30/04/09	45	0.61
23 (22)	Chantrey Vellacott DFK	26.5	4.00 (3.00)	30/06/09	52	0.51
24 (20)	Menzies	26.2	-20.50 (9.20)	28/02/09	31	0.85
25 (24)	Johnston Carmichael	24.4	8.00 (10.00)	31/05/09	42
26 (25)	Rawlinson & Hunter	22.9	14.00 (-)	31/03/09	14
27 (-)	HW Fisher & Company	22.5	9.20 (-)	30/04/08	29	0.80
28 (28)	Buzzacott	19.1	13.00 (13.7)	30/09/08	20	0.95
29 (26)	Armstrong Watson	18.9	-1.30 (7.70)	31/03/09	34	0.55
30 (27)	Littlejohn	18.5	1.93 (6.10)	31/05/09	28	0.66
31 (29)	DTE Group	18.0	7.10 (-7.10)	30/04/09	10
32 (31)	Francis Clark	16.5	2.24 (18.80)	31/03/09	33	0.50
33 (34)	Streets	16.4	8.60 (45.20)	30/06/09	19	0.86
34 (32)	haysmacintyre	16.3	3.10 (13.00)	31/03/09	22	0.73
35 (30)	Cooper Parry	15.5	-6.65 (10.7)	30/04/09	22	0.70
36 (35)	Duncan & Toplis	14.7	-2.19 (12.60)	31/03/09	28	0.52
37 (40)	Price Bailey	14.7	9.00 (17.00)	31/03/09	22	0.66
38 (39)	Haslers	14.7	4.71 (7.40)	31/12/08	17	0.82
39 (37)	Shipleys	14.2	0.71 (34.30)	30/04/09	18	0.78
40 (38)	Lovewell Blake	14.1	0.71 (2.20)	30/09/08	21	0.60
41 (33)	Target	13.7	-11.00 (49.5)	31/03/09	11
42 (36)	Hazlewoods	13.6	-3.47 (13.00)		17	0.80
43 (42)	Larking Gowen	13.3	6.40 (6.80)	31/03/09	22
44 (41)	Scott-Moncrieff	13.1	0.00 (4.00)		18	0.73
45 (43)	Reeves & Neylan	12.9	3.27 (11.00)	31/05/08	25	0.52
46 (45)	Mercer & Hole	12.1	8.23 (5.50)	31/03/09	20	0.61
47 (56)	Frank Hirth	11.9	28.00 ( 9.3)	31/03/09	8	1.50
48 (47)	Anderson Anderson & Brown	11.7	13.00 (46.00)	31/03/09	12	0.98
49 (49)	Barnes Roffe	11.5	10.16 (11.70)	31/12/08	16	0.72
50 (46)	Simmons Gainsford	10.9	1.00 (38.00)	31/03/09	16	0.68