Top 100 Firms Grow 8%

Top 100 firms revenue growth, annual percentage change
Top 100 firms revenue growth, annual percentage change

While payrolls lag.

The nation’s top 100 tax and accounting firms advanced total revenues by 7.8% in 2013, totaling $53.9 million, while expanding payrolls only 5.5%, according to the industry-leading Accounting Today study.

The gap between revenue growth and headcounts suggests that firms are banking profits as never before even as organic expansion lags.

In other highlights from the study: