how many of these 8 criteria does your firm use?
by marc rosenberg
partner comp: art & science
for purposes of this post, we will group cpa firms according to five different sizes:
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- the big 4. they are the ultimate of sophistication, running their firms as true, colossal corporations, regardless of their legal entity. virtually none of this post relates to big 4 firms.
- the top 100 firms, excluding the big 4. the 100th largest firm was $33 million in 2015.
- multipartner firms from $15 million to $33 million.
- multipartner firms from $5 million to $15 million.
- multipartner firms below $5 million.