Most Prestigious Accounting Firms
Accounting professionals across the nation rank the prestige of the firms they compete against.
PwC (PricewaterhouseCoopers) LLP
PwC is widely considered to be the world's most prestigious and progressive accounting firm. It offers extensive career development opportunities, including formal coaching and mentoring, informal mentoring, excellent trainings, and clear promotion paths. It’s also heavily focused on CSR initiatives and improving DE&I. It set a carbon neutrality goal for 2030, and has many offerings for its staff to get more informed about DE&I issues and take anti-bias training.
SCORE 8.858
2024 Ranking
#2
Deloitte
Deloitte is a global provider of audit, tax, financial services, and consulting. The firm is one of the Big Four accounting organizations. Services include corporate strategy, marketing and sales strategy, mergers and acquisitions, and innovation; manufacturing operations including supply chain; sector-specific service operations; infrastructure operations including outsourcing advisory and shared services; and financial management.
SCORE 8.840
2024 Ranking
#1
Ernst & Young LLP (EY)
EY is one of the prestigious Big 4 accounting firms. It offers endless career development opportunities, including coaching, mentoring, training, web-based learning, and experience working with multinational clients. DE&I are core to EY’s DNA. EY is extremely transparent about its diversity goals and progress, and has been named a best employer for diversity.
SCORE 8.494
2024 Ranking
#3
KPMG LLP
Part of the prestigious Big 4, KPMG offers the ability to drive your own career. Development opportunities include strong training, the ability to move locations and change roles, and the ability to switch practice areas. Wellness offerings are extensive, and there are several valuable affinity groups that support women, people of color, and LGBTQ+ individuals.
SCORE 8.042
2024 Ranking
#4
Grant Thornton
Grant Thornton is one of the world's most prestigious and highly respected accounting firms. An internship or job with the firm will open doors throughout your career. Interns get hands-on experience and a clear idea of what it’s like to work for the firm full time, while staff get extensive mentoring opportunities and the ability to take charge of their own careers—you can progress very quickly if you so desire and perform well.
SCORE 6.966
2024 Ranking
#5
BDO USA, P.C.
BDO USA, P.C. is a professional services firm providing assurance, tax, and advisory services for a diverse range of clients. BDO is committed to fostering an inclusive environment where an individual feels like there are no limits to what they can achieve by being their authentic self.
SCORE 6.554
2024 Ranking
#6
RSM US LLP
RSM is the leading U.S. provider of assurance, tax, and consulting services focused on the middle market. Interns get hands-on experience with clients, and full-time staff get extensive training and mentoring. RSM has an “own your future” mentality that rewards staff for taking charge of their careers.
SCORE 6.484
2024 Ranking
#7
Baker Tilly
Founded in 1931, Baker Tilly has offices from coast to coast and is one of the largest CPA firms in the U.S. Its interns are treated like full-time staff, and get access to seniors and managers—who are very willing to help. Full-time staff get formal training, on-the-job training, mentoring, and internal mobility options. The firm is strongly focused on philanthropy and diversity, and has new initiatives in place around D&I. Recently, it’s made great strides when it comes to gender diversity.
SCORE 5.909
2024 Ranking
#8
Crowe LLP
Crowe is a leading global accounting firm. Its interns get hands-on experience in tax and audit, and full-time staff get extensive training and mentoring, merit-based promotions, and the ability to move among business units. Crowe focuses on hiring and retaining women and minorities, and staff are encouraged to give back to their communities.
SCORE 5.519
2024 Ranking
#9
CohnReznick LLP
CohnReznick is one of the 15 largest accounting firm in the U.S. Interns get a chance to work on year-end audits and network with employees at all levels. Full-time staff have access to career development coaches to discuss goals and performance, and get help with graduate programs, CPA materials, and CPE courses. The firm offers many volunteer opportunities, and is very supportive of LGBTQ+ individuals, individuals with disabilities, and military veterans.
SCORE 5.350
2024 Ranking
#10
Moss Adams LLP
Accounting firm Moss Adams is looking for motivated self-starters with strong technical skills. The firm treats interns like full-time staff and allows them to learn alongside senior professionals. Career advisors and mentors help full-time staff navigate the beginning of their careers. Staff also get free Headspace subscriptions, gym memberships, and counseling.
SCORE 5.274
2024 Ranking
#11
CLA (CliftonLarsonAllen)
CLA is one of the largest audit, tax, and consulting firms in the U.S. It has offices in more than 120 locations, and its staff are given a lot of responsibility, and access to extensive training and mentors. The culture is collegial and collaborative, and managers have an open-door policy. CLA really helps its people find careers that fit.
SCORE 5.030
2024 Ranking
#12
Marcum LLP
NYC-based Marcum is one of the 15 largest accounting firms in the U.S. Its interns get hands-on experience and exposure to partners. Full-time staff get access to mentors and coaches, and can transfer between locations and practice areas. Marcum promotes a healthy work/life balance, offering flexible schedules and alternative work arrangements.
SCORE 4.741
2024 Ranking
#13
EisnerAmper LLP
EisnerAmper is a leading accounting firm based in NYC. It has a team-oriented culture, and managers have an open-door policy. The firm is diverse with respect to gender and encourages the retention of women through flex-time arrangements. The number of minority employees is increasing, and the firm is committed to several environmental programs.
SCORE 4.733
2024 Ranking
#14
SCORE 4.710
2024 Ranking
#17
CBIZ
CBIZ is one of the most highly respected accounting, tax, and advisory firms in the U.S. Its interns get a lot of responsibility, guidance, and opportunities to meet directors and partners. Its full-time staff have access to training conferences, professional development programs, and internal mobility options. The firm routinely gets involved in service activities, and is diverse with respect to women and LGBTQ+ individuals.
SCORE 4.634
2024 Ranking
#16
Plante Moran
Plante Moran is one of the largest and most highly respected U.S. accounting firms. For more than 20 years, it’s been one of Fortune’s “100 Best Companies to Work For.” The firm offers interns hands-on experience, networking opportunities with partners, and a “buddy” program. Full-time staff get to rotate through various areas and meet with seniors to speak about career goals. There are dedicated D&I groups for women, Black employees, LGBTQ+ individuals, and veterans.
SCORE 4.548
2024 Ranking
#15
Forvis Mazars
New York-based Forvis Mazars is one of the largest accounting firms in the U.S. It has roots dating to 1921 and today has more than 7,000 employees.
SCORE 4.126
2024 Ranking
#19
Eide Bailly LLP
Eide Bailly is one of the 20 largest accounting firms in the U.S. Its interns get quality training, hands-on experience, and access to senior staff members and clients. Its full-time staff have access to an excellent mentoring and career advisory program, and an “Xchange” program that allows them to rotate through different departments and specialties. The firm supports DE&I through a DE&I council and through four employee resource groups. These groups support Women, Veterans, employees of color, and employees who identify in the LGBTQIA+ communities.
SCORE 4.104
2024 Ranking
#18
Cherry Bekaert Advisory, LLC
Cherry Bekaert is a leading accounting and consulting firm with offices throughout the Southeast. The firm has a friendly, collaborative culture, and partners have an open-door policy. Career development opportunities are extensive—the firm supports valuable training and mentoring offerings—and a healthy work/life balance can be achieved.
SCORE 4.018
2024 Ranking
#20
Armanino Advisory LLC
Armanino is one of the 20 largest accounting and business consulting firms in the U.S and has been named one of IPA’s "Best of the Best" accounting firms. Armanino's interns get hands-on experience, great training, and the ability to interact with senior staff. Its full-time staff get access to an internal mobility program, a state-of-the-art training program, a tuition reimbursement program, and bonuses for passing the CPA exam.
SCORE 4.017
2024 Ranking
#23
Citrin Cooperman & Company, LLP
Citrin Cooperman is a top-ranked, forward-thinking accounting and advisory firm that promotes collaboration. It combines the supportive, teamwork, family-like culture of a small firm with the resources and know-how of a national firm. Citrin Cooperman values fresh perspectives, growth mindsets, entrepreneurial spirit, and a passion for problem solving.
SCORE 3.942
2024 Ranking
#21
Withum
Withum is an advisory, tax, and accounting firm headquartered in Princeton, N.J. Services include accounting, auditing, employee benefits, pension plans, tax, litigation support, business valuation, insolvency, transaction advisory services, and management consulting.
SCORE 3.895
2024 Ranking
#22
Wipfli LLP
Wipfli is a leading accounting firm looking for exceptional candidates with srong technical abilities and teamwork skills. Interns get a lot of training and are given real work to do, and full-time staff get valuable training and can move among various areas of the firm. A healthy work/life balance can be achieved at the firm, and compensation is very competitive.
SCORE 3.545
2024 Ranking
#24
Cohen & Company
Cohen & Company is one of Inc.’s fastest-growing businesses. It’s a national-known assurance, tax, and advisory firm that serves the Fortune 1000, has a young and lively culture, and lets you make an impact from day one. Cohen & Company encourages its people to have a say in the firm’s business areas and to drive their own careers.
SCORE 3.443
2024 Ranking
#26
PKF O'Connor Davies
PKF O'Connor Davies is one of the 30 largest accounting firm in the U.S. The firm truly cares about career development and growth. Interns get meaningful work and the ability to interact with senior professionals, while full-time staff get mentoring opportunities, valuable and useful feedback, and extensive training. A healthy work/life balance can be achieved—the firm understands employees have lives outside of work, and offers plenty of PTO and benefits.
SCORE 3.426
2024 Ranking
#25
The Siegfried Group
The Siegfried Group is synonymous with innovation and the pursuit of personal goals. The public accounting firm is led by an ambitious entrepreneur whose grown his eponymous company from a small concern into a national powerhouse—which aims to do more than serve its clients; it aims to transform people and improve their lives.
SCORE 3.415
2024 Ranking
#28
UHY Advisors, Inc.
UHY is national audit, tax, and consulting firm that prides itself on offering “next level service,” catering to both middle-market and Fortune 500 companies. UHY also prides itself on empowering its people, making sure they flourish. At UHY, you’ll be surrounded by intelligent, caring, and fun colleagues who are passionate about performing top-notch work.
SCORE 3.389
2024 Ranking
#27
Weaver
Weaver is a Houston-based accounting firm with offices throughout Texas, and in California (San Diego and Manhattan Beach) and New York (NYC). The firm is the largest independent CPA firm in the Southwest and among the 35 largest in the U.S. It offers a wide range of assurance, tax, and consulting services.
SCORE 3.269
2024 Ranking
#34
Elliott Davis
Based in South Carolina, Elliott Davis is one of the top accounting firms in the U.S. It’s consistently named one of the “Best Places to Work” in its major markets. It offers its staff numerous development opportunities, including formal and informal feedback, training, and mentoring. Philanthropy and community outreach are a focus, and Elliott Davis does a great job when it comes to female diversity—women hold many of the firm’s leadership positions.
SCORE 3.255
2024 Ranking
#32
Novogradac & Company LLP
Novogradac makes a difference in people’s lives. Though this national top-ranked CPA firm works in a wide range of industries, it specializes in affordable housing, community development, and renewable energy. The firm is also dedicated to making a difference in its own people's lives, encouraging its staff to challenge themselves and think creatively to grow their careers.
SCORE 3.208
2024 Ranking
#30
BPM LLP
San Francisco-based BPM is one of the 40 largest accounting and advisory firms in the U.S. It has been named one of the best places to work in the Bay Area and one of the fastest growing accounting firms. BPM is very focused on community engagement, giving back, and inclusion initiatives. BPM strongly supports minorities, women, and people of color when it comes to advancement within the firm.
SCORE 3.171
2024 Ranking
#35
RubinBrown
RubinBrown is top-50 tax, assurance, and advisory firm that’s widely known for its integrity and decades of industry experience. It’s also widely known for its collaborative, entrepreneurial, caring, family-like culture. The firm places a high value on uniqueness, respects its people’s differences, and encourages its team members to actively participate in their communities.
SCORE 3.128
2024 Ranking
#29
Aprio
Atlanta-based Aprio is one of the 25 largest CPA firms in the U.S. Full-time staff get access to extensive formal and on-the-job training and the ability to transfer within various areas of the firm. Aprio has more than 2,100 team members, who speak more than 60 languages and work with clients in over 50 countries.
SCORE 3.108
2024 Ranking
#47
Carr, Riggs & Ingram, LLC
Carr, Riggs & Ingram is a top accounting and advisory firm that places a strong emphasis on the growth and well-being of its staff. It has a mentor-centric and work/life balance-focused culture, and offers young professionals nearly endless development opportunities. Its partners are accessible and approachable, maintaining an authentic open-door policy.
SCORE 3.102
2024 Ranking
#33
Anchin
Anchin is a New York City-based tax, assurance, and audit services firm well known for promoting from within—many of its partners and senior managers started their careers there. Anchin aims to creates well-rounded industry experts, offering its staff significant specialized training and growth opportunities.
SCORE 3.042
2024 Ranking
#39
Grassi
Grassi is one of the 100 largest accounting firms in the U.S. Its interns get hands-on experience and work alongside senior managers. Its full-time staff have access to strong training, a great mentoring program, and a very generous benefit package. Grassi takes diversity and inclusion seriously, and has a women’s council that regularly holds events.
SCORE 3.025
2024 Ranking
#38
Whitley Penn
Whitley Penn is a top audit, tax, and consulting firm that encourages its people to think entrepreneurially and communicate openly. Its managers have an open-door policy, its young professionals get meaningful experience, and the firm takes a holistic approach to hiring, looking for dynamic individuals to join its collaborative team.
SCORE 3.007
2024 Ranking
#43
Bennett Thrasher LLP
Atlanta-based Bennett Thrasher is one of the fastest-growing tax, accounting, and consulting firms in the U.S. It offers great career growth opportunities and benefits, combing the knowledge and expertise of a national accounting firm with the family-like culture of a small firm. Young professionals receive early exposure to a wide range of accounting and financial services.
SCORE 2.987
2024 Ranking
#36
Frank, Rimerman + Co. LLP
Bay Area-based Frank, Rimerman + Co. specializes in providing accounting services to industry-leading firms, including many Silicon Valley pioneers. The firm embodies its clients’ entrepreneurial spirit, and offers its staff growth opportunities like soft skill training, technical training, and the ability to rotate through the firm's departments. The firm emphasizes staff wellbeing, and offers mindfulness workshops, busy season yoga and meals, and ergonomic workshops and tools.
SCORE 2.967
2024 Ranking
#42
Frazier & Deeter
Atlanta-based Frazier & Deeter is one of the 50 largest CPA and advisory firms in the U.S. Its excellent internship program offers students hands-on experience and the opportunity to learn alongside senior managers. Its full-time staff receive extensive structured and informal training and mentoring, and it’s easy to reach out to seniors for help and advice. Benefits are very generous, and include many wellness offerings such as in-office health screenings and group fitness challenges.
SCORE 2.930
2024 Ranking
#40
Sikich
Accounting firm Sikich is looking for hardworking team players with strong communication skills. The firm’s Sikich Scholars program gives interns hands-on experience and exposure to clients. For its full-time staff, Sikich offers many growth opportunities, including trainings, conferences, internal mobility options, and financial support to take the CPA exam.
SCORE 2.921
2024 Ranking
#41
Anders
St. Louis-based Anders is one of the 75 largest CPA firms in the U.S. The firm's services include a full range of advisory, audit and assurance, and tax, and it specializes in serving several industries, including banking, cannabis, creative agencies, healthcare, food and beverage, not-for-profit, sports and entertainment, and startups and entrepreneurs.
SCORE 2.914
2024 Ranking
#Not Ranked
Baker Newman Noyes
Based in the Portland, Maine, Baker Newman Noyes is one of the 100 largest accounting firms in the U.S., as measured by annual revenues. It booked more than $62 million in revenues in its latest fiscal year.
SCORE 2.868
2024 Ranking
#Not Ranked
Wolf & Company
Boston-based Wolf & Company is one of the 100 largest accounting firms in the U.S. It provides audit, tax, advisory, and risk management services to clients in numerous industries, including financial institutions, investment management, healthcare, manufacturing, nonprofit, and professional services.
SCORE 2.868
2024 Ranking
#49
Schneider Downs & Co., Inc.
Schneider Downs is the largest regional accounting firm in Pittsburgh and one of the 15 largest CPA firms in the Mid-Atlantic region. It has over 600 professionals, including more than 50 partners.
SCORE 2.846
2024 Ranking
#Not Ranked
Kaufman, Rossin & Co.
Miami-based Kaufman Rossin has been providing accounting services to Florida businesses for 60 years and also serves international clients in dozens of countries. It has been named the top accounting firm to work for in the U.S. by Accounting Today and recognized as one of the best places to work in South Florida by the South Florida Business Journal.
SCORE 2.817
2024 Ranking
#48
Warren Averett
Birmingham, Ala.-based Warren Averett is one of the 50 largest accounting firms in the U.S. and one of the largest accounting firms in the Southeast. It operates through 15 industry groups, including healthcare, financial services, nonprofits, technology and life sciences, retail and consumer, and natural resources. This top CPA firm is led by CEO Mary Elliott, who has worked for Warren Averett her entire career.
SCORE 2.809
2024 Ranking
#Not Ranked
HBK
HBK is a client-centric firm providing small to mid-market businesses and their owners and operators a wide range of financial solutions. The CPA firm dates back to 1949 and added a wealth management practice in 2001. HBK is one of the 100 largest accounting firms in the U.S., and its wealth management unit boasts rankings and awards from Forbes, Financial Advisor, and the Financial Times.
SCORE 2.805
2024 Ranking
#46
Wiss & Company, LLP
New Jersey-based Wiss & Co. is one of the 100 largest accounting firms in the U.S. Founded in 1969, Wiss provides accounting and assurance, tax, data and technology advisory, and wealth management and family office services. It has more than 300 employees and nearly 40 partners.
SCORE 2.800
2024 Ranking
#Not Ranked
