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Top 25 Big four accounting firms based in Australia
RevenueBase identified 412 big four accounting firms headquartered in Australia as of September 2026 and tracks 22,763 professional contacts across them, including 7,520 with verified work emails. Sydney is the largest hub.
This list covers big four accounting firms headquartered in Australia, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 21, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest big four accounting firms based in Australia
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 9,024 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Welcome to KPMG.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 1,626 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Your business deserves remarkable support.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 1,088 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “William Buck is a leading firm of Accountants and advisors with 150 partners and over 1,100 professional staff.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 592 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Moore Australia is a network of five independent accounting, audit and advisory firms with 13 offices and 600+ staff across Australia.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 434 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “SW Accountants & Advisors is an Australian owned advisory and accounting firm with a 90 year history that understands relationships make all the difference in creating…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 302 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Forvis Mazars in Australia forms part of Forvis Mazars Group SC, an independent member of Forvis Mazars Global, a leading professional services network.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 276 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are an accounting and advisory firm with a team of over 270 experts.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 266 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Hall Chadwick is one of the largest and most experienced accounting groups in Australia servicing clients in every major capital city and many regional centres in Australia.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 239 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “BG Private is an AFR Top 100 accounting, audit and advisory firm making us one of Melbourne and Sydney’s leading practices.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 172 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Protiviti is a global business consulting firm that delivers deep expertise, objective insights, a tailored approach and unparalleled collaboration to help leaders confidently…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 131 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “At Nexia Australia, our purpose is to connect you to your true potential by giving you the accounting insight, advice, and support you need to navigate to success.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 124 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Winner of BRW’s Most Productive Accounting Firm seven years running (2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and again 2011).” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 107 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Nexia Edwards Marshall is part of a leading global network with over 519 offices across more than 119 countries.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 102 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Sinclair Wilson was established in 1950 as a two-partner Accounting Firm based in Warrnambool.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 85 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “BYRONS are one of the largest independent advisory firms in Sydney with 18 Directors and over 80 professional staff.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 84 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Accru Melbourne delivers positive financial solutions through exceptional client leadership.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 83 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Pilot Partners is a Brisbane-based chartered accounting firm made up of a team of expert accountants and specialist business advisors who share a common philosophy - our clients…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 83 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Armada Accountants & Advisors brings together a dedicated team of specialists, each an expert in their own discipline and all working together toward your financial goals.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 83 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We’re about people.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 77 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We understand success is different for everyone.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 68 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in 1926, Ulton has grown to become one of Queensland’s largest and most dynamic business advisory, tax advisory, audit, forensic accounting, and wealth management firms.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 60 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Business can demand everything.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 58 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Blaze Acumen Chartered Accountants is now part of Horizon Nexus Partners.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 58 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “DFK Benjamin King Money has a long history, with its founding partner having established the practice in March 1960.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 54 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “LBW Business + Wealth Advisors, ranked in the top 100 accounting firms in Australia by BRW for the past two years, has serviced our business, audit, taxation and financial…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: big four accounting firms. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names big four accounting firms.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of big four accounting firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name big four accounting firms. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Big four accounting firms based in Australia at a glance
As of Sep 21, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for Australia, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Australia, over 412 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among big four accounting firms, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in Australia whose own description of what they do matches “big four accounting firms”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names big four accounting firms), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among big four accounting firms, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Australia are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 7,520 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 21, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Big four accounting firms by metro
- Big four accounting firms in Sydney49
- Big four accounting firms in Melbourne36
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names big four accounting firms, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many big four accounting firms are there based in Australia?
RevenueBase identified 412 big four accounting firms headquartered in Australia as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Kpmg Australia, headquartered in Sydney, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most big four accounting firms?
Sydney leads with 49 headquartered companies, followed by Melbourne (36) and Brisbane (16).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 7,520 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 412 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 21, 2026.
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RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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