Datamonitor's Accountancy Global Industry Guide is an essential resource for top-level data and analysis covering the accountancy industry. It includes detailed data on market size and segmentation, textual analysis of the key trends and competitive landscape, and profiles of the leading companies. This incisive report provides expert analysis on a global, regional and country basis.

Scope of the Report

* Contains an executive summary and data on value, volume and segmentation

* Provides textual analysis of the industry's prospects, competitive landscape and profiles of the leading companies

* Covers Global, European, Asia-Pacific & 11 individual country markets

* Includes a five-year forecast of the industry

Highlights

The global accountancy market generated total revenues of $203.2 billion in 2005, this representing a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 4.3% for the five-year period spanning 2001-2005.

Audit proved the most lucrative segment for the global market in 2005, generating total revenues of $89.1 billion, equivalent to 43.8% of the market's overall value.

Looking forward, the performance of the global accountancy market is forecast to accelerate, with an anticipated CAGR of 4.9%, for the five-year period 2005-2010 expected to drive the market to a value of $258.1 billion by the end of 2010.

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Definition

The accountancy market consists of all revenues generated by firms engaged in designing, preparing and auditing accounting records. Income from assurance, tax and other accounting related fields like developing budgets, preparing tax returns; processing payrolls, bookkeeping, and billing have also been included. Any currency conversions used in the creation of this report have been calculated using 2005 annual average exchange rates.

For the purpose of this report, Europe comprises Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, the UK, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Russia, Poland and Hungary.

Asia-Pacific comprises Australia, China, India, Japan, Singapore, Taiwan and South Korea.

The Americas comprises the US, Canada, Brazil and Mexico.

The global market is composed of Asia-Pacific, Europe and the Americas.