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Leading the profession

Accounting Today's 2015 class of Top 100 Firms and Regional Leaders showed a comfortable overall growth rate of 8.4 percent -- but whether through mergers and acquisition or organic means, some members managed to post growth figures well above that.

Here are the 20 fastest-growing large firms in the country from our list.

You can find the full Top 100 Firms and Regional Leaders report under the Reports & Rankings tab.

Note: An earlier version of this slideshow contained a slightly different ranking; upon clarification, Joseph Eve has been added as No. 20, and Grassi & Co. and FGMK moved up one space.

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No. 20: Joseph Eve CPAs

Offices: 4

Partners: 3

Total employees: 59

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No. 20: Grassi & Co.

Offices: 3

Partners: 29

Total employees: 225

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No. 19: FGMK

Offices: 2

Partners: 58

Total employees: 381

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No. 17: BerryDunn

Offices: 5

Partners: 16

Total employees: 225

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No. 16: Goldstein Schechter Koch

Offices: 4

Partners: 14

Total employees: 116

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No. 15: Honkamp Krueger & Co.

Offices: 9

Partners: 22

Total employees: 373

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No. 14: Haynie & Co. CPAs

Offices: 4

Partners: 9

Total employees: 75

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No. 13: The Bonadio Group

Offices: 11

Partners: 72

Total employees: 616

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No. 12: BDO

Offices: 52

Partners: 346

Total employees: 4,041

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No. 11: Citrin Cooperman & Co.

Offices: 6

Partners: 144

Total employees: 649

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No. 10: Abbott, Stringham & Lynch

Offices: 1

Partners: 12

Total employees: 76

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No. 9: Gumbiner Savett

Offices: 1

Partners: 10

Total employees: 110

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No. 8: Gallina

Offices: 11

Partners: 33

Total employees: 283

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No. 7: Montgomery Coscia Greilich

Offices: 2

Partners: 19

Total employees: 281

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No. 6: KPM CPAs

Offices: 2

Partners: 23

Total employees: 98

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No. 5: Janover

Offices: 2

Partners: 23

Total employees: 141

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No. 4: Mantyla McReynolds

Offices: 1

Partners: 9

Total employees: 49

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No. 3: Baker Tilly Virchow Krause

Offices: 29

Partners: 156

Total employees: 2,468

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No. 2: Peterson Sullivan

Offices: 1

Partners: 17

Total employees: 146

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No. 1: Elliott Davis Decosimo

Offices: 18

Partners: 93

Total employees: 755

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