deloitte revenue 2018

Deloitte made $43.2 billion dollars for their 2018 fiscal year ended May 31 2018.

They announced their revenue on September 18 2018.

This compares to their revenue of $38.8 billion in 2018. This represents an increase of $4.4 billion dollars from 2017.

This is an 11 percent increase in revenues year over year which is pretty significant.

Last year Deloitte was the highest earning big 4 firm, and this year they are also the highest ranking accounting firm.

Comments about Deloitte’s 2018  Revenue

Deloitte’s CEO Punit Renjen had the following to say about their results.

“FY2018 was exceptional for Deloitte as we continued to deliver a measurable impact for clients, our people, and society. These results reflect Deloitte’s unrelenting commitment to serving clients with quality and distinction while embracing important public-interest responsibilities. Over the past year, we have increased strategic investments in the capabilities and services most sought-after by clients in the fastest-growing markets in the world. We also have expanded our efforts and investments to drive audit quality and innovation while achieving strong financial results.”

Deloitte has also attributed their growth to the fourth industrial revolution.

Deloitte’s 2018 Revenue By Practice

Deloitte Consulting

Deloitte’s is known for their consulting practice, and there consulting practice performed well. It was their fastest growing practice in 2018. Their consulting practice grew at 15.7% growth.

Deliotte attributes their growth in this area to the growing industry 4.0 – aka the fourth industrial revolution. This represents more than 10 years of double-digit growth for Deloitte’s consulting practice.

Deloitte Risk Advisory

Risk Advisory revenue grew the second fastest at 12.0%. This practice grew due to Cyber, Financial and Operational risk consulting growth.

This makes sense since hacking and Russian troll farms has been in the news for a while now. I’m sure many CEO’s are worried about risk to their business coming from cyber risk.

Deloitte Tax

Tax & Legal revenue grew at 8.7 percent for the fiscal year 2018. This is much better growth than the 6.6 percent in 2017. This is most likely due to tax reform and additional global regulation around taxes.

Deloitte Financial Advisory

Deloitte’s financial advisory practice grew by 8% in 2018 vs 5.8 % in 2017.

This was primarily driven by the desire for Deloitte’s mergers and acquisitions consulting services. Deloitte says that their was a large appetite for the M&A services this year which is evident through their revenue growth in this practice.

Deloitte Audit

Audit & Assurance revenue grew by 7 percent in 2018 vs just one percent in 2017. Deloitte attributed this to further investment in audit quality.

They said they have invested $1 billion globaly into their audit practice, and I guess it shows in their large increase in revenues in 2018.

They also mentioned one artificial intelligence investment, Deloitte omnia, which helped them grow their practice and increase audit quality.  as it continues to invest in driving quality and consistency across the network and transforming the audit business to deliver smarter and more insightful audits. Deloitte member firms led in overall Fortune Global 500 audit wins in FY2017 and have been recognized globally as leaders in audit innovation, analytics, and artificial intelligence.

Deloitte 2018 Growth by region

In 2018, Deloitte’s Europe Middle East and Africa region grew the fastest at 15.9 percent.

The second fastest growing market was their Asia Pacific region with 13.3 percent growth.

The third fastest growing region was the Americas with an 8 percent growth rate.

Deloitte’s 2018 Number of Employees

The big 4 love to talk about their addition of talent in their revenue reporting press releases as well.

Deloitte increased their number of employees to a staggering 286,200 in 2018 from 263,900 in 2017.

This represents an addition of 22,300 in 2018. In 2017 Deloitte hired 19,500 employees, so they hired a lot more even though they are investing in technology.

That’s an 8.5% increase in the number of employees from 2017 which is consistent with prior year’s growth percentage.

This 8.5% increase in the number of employees only translated into a 11% increase in revenues, so Deloitte was much more successful in converting those employees into revenues. In 2017, they only had 5% revenue growth rate on 8% employee growth.

This might be due to lower salaries or hiring more valuable employees.

It is also good news for those planning to become future accountants because many people are worried about technology replacing accountants, but it appears that the four big accounting firms are still hiring at historic rates.

Deloitte’s 2018 Revenue – Summary

In conclusion it was a good year for Deloitte as they finally surpassed  the $40 billion revenue mark.

They were the largest accounting firm in revenue last year, and they are the largest accounting firm again this year.

Additionally, it appears that Deloitte will have over 300,000 employees soon. These big accounting firms are truly trying to be professional service firms and not just accounting firms. Will there be a point where they employ a large portion of the world’s population? Will they penetrate every market where physical employees that offer professional services are needed? It’s just a thought that I have since there appears to be no stopping in their service offerings or the number of employees they hire.