With 11 overall new Securities and Exchange Commission clients and a net gain of eight, Top 10 Firm BDO led the nation’s large firms in the first quarter of 2014.
Among its new client were flower distributor 1-800-Flowers, cloud services and digital media company j2 Global, and food and animal safety products developer Neogen Corp. It brought in almost $5 billion in new market cap audited, with big boosts from j2, with a market cap of $2.3 billion, and Neogen, with $1.3 billion. It also added over $7.6 million in new audit fees.
Big Four firm KPMG and Marcum followed up with net gains of five clients each for the period (see “
Beyond the big firms
Terry L. Johnson CPA of Florida led the gainers in the first quarter, bringing on 18 new clients (see “
Anton & Chia, of Newport Beach, Calif., also picked up 18 clients (netting 14), most of them from a related set of funds from which Rochester, N.Y.-based EFP Rotenberg had earlier retired as auditor, according to the
Denver-based Cutler & Co. also picked up a large number of new SEC clients from Ronald Chadwick, who is retiring, according to reports.
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