Below is a listing of the auditors of the FTSE 100 for 2017. This list also shows some auditors that are going to be changed. For example, Rolls-Royce will be changing their auditors from KPMG because of the scandal that KPMG did not catch.
There are also some other major changes such as Glaxosmithkline.
We also have a list of how many FTSE 100 companies each audit firm audits. As you can see by those statistics that PwC audits far more of the FTSE 100 than any other audit firm. PwC audits 40 firms out of the FTSE 100.
Next up after PwC is KPMG with 24 out of the 100 as their clients. EY audits 14 companies out of the 100. Deloite audits 20 companies out of the 100 and BDO comes in last with only 1 company in the FTSE 100. Now I know that doesn’t total 100 companies, but that is just how the FTSE 100 shakes out right now. As of May 2017 there are only 99 companies listed in the FTSE. We will update that as the FTSE 100 index is updated.
This also proves that the big 4 accounting firms have a monopoly on the audits of the largest companies in the world as you have only 1 company in the top FTSE 100 being audited by a smaller firm.
The list is compiled by FTSE 100 company and the accounting firm that audits them. As you can see by the list, the 4 top accounting firms dominate the audits of the FTSE 100.
Audit Firm | Number of FTSE Companies Audited |
---|---|
PwC | 40 |
KPMG | 24 |
Deloitte | 20 |
EY | 14 |
BDO | 1 |
To see other large clients of the big 4 accounting firms, make sure to visit each of our individual audit firms’ client pages
PwC Clients (PwC 2017 Client List)
Ernst and Young Clients (EY Clients 2017)
Deloitte Clients (Largest Clients 2017)
Also check out our Fortune 500 Auditors List
FTSE 100 Company | Auditor |
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3I Group | EY |
Associated British Food | KPMG |
Admiral Group | KPMG |
Anglo American | Deloitte |
Antofagasta | Deloitte |
Ashtead Grp | Deloitte |
Astrazeneca | KPMG |
Aviva | PwC |
Babcock Intl | PwC |
BAE Sys | KPMG |
Barclays | PwC |
Barrat Development | Deloitte |
BHP Billiton | KPMG |
BP | EY |
British American Tobacco | PwC |
BT Group | PwC |
Bunzl | PwC |
Burberry Group | PwC |
Carnival | PwC |
Centrica | PwC |
Cocacola HBC AG | PwC |
Compass Group | KPMG |
Convatec | Deloitte |
CRH | EY |
Croda International | PwC |
DCC | PwC |
Diageo | KPMG |
Direct Line | Deloitte |
Easy Jet | PwC |
Experian | PwC |
Fresnillo | EY |
GKN | PwC |
Glaxosmithkline | PwC (changing to Deloitte in 2018) |
Glencore | Deloitte |
Hammerson | Deloitte |
Hangreaves Lansdown | PwC |
HIKMA | Deloitte |
HSBC | KPMG |
Imperial Tobacco Brands | PwC |
Informa | Deloitte |
Intercontinental Hotels | Ernst & Young |
Intertek Group | KPMG |
International Consolidated Airlines | Ernst & Young |
Intu Properties | Pricewaterhousecoopers |
ITV | KPMG |
Johnson Matthey | KPMG |
Kingfisher | Deloitte & Touche |
Land Securities Group | EY |
Legal & General Group | PwC |
Lloyds Group | PwC |
London Stock Exchange | EY |
Marks and Spencer | Deloitte |
Mediclinic International | PwC |
Merlin Entertainment | KPMG |
Micro Focus International | PwC |
Mondi | Deloitte |
Morrison Supermarkets | PwC |
National Grid | PwC |
Next | EY |
Old Mutual | KPMG |
Paddy Power Betfair | KPMG |
Pearson | PwC |
Persimmon | KPMG |
Provident Finance | Deloitte |
Prudential | KPMG |
Randgold Resources | BDO |
Royal Dutch Shell ‘A’ shares | PwC |
Royal Dutch Shell ‘B’ shares | PwC |
Reckitt Benckiser | PwC |
Relx | EY |
Rentokil International | KPMG |
Rio Tinto | PwC |
Rolls-Royce | KPMG (changing to PwC in 2018) |
Royal Bank of Scotland | Deloitte |
Royal Mail | EY |
RSA Insurance | KPMG |
Sage Group | EY |
Sainsbury | PwC |
Schroders | PwC |
Severn Trent | Deloitte |
Shire | Deloitte |
Sky | Deloitte |
Smith & Nephew | EY |
Smiths Group | PwC |
Smurfit Kappa | PwC |
SSE | KPMG |
St. James Place | PwC |
Standard Chartered | KPMG |
Standard Life | PwC |
Taylor Wimpey | Deloitte |
Tesco | PwC |
Tui AG | PwC |
Unilever | KPMG |
UTD Utilities | KPMG |
Vodafone | PwC |
Whitbread | EY |
Wolseley | PwC |
WorldPay | KPMG |
WPP | Deloitte |