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Top 25 External audit consulting firms based in the United States
RevenueBase identified 895 external audit consulting firms headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 34,963 professional contacts across them, including 17,027 with verified work emails. New York is the largest hub.
This list covers external audit consulting firms headquartered in the United States, 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 28, 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 external audit consulting firms based in the United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
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| 1 | 8,779 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Protiviti is a global consulting firm that delivers deep expertise, objective insights, a tailored approach and unparalleled collaboration to help leaders confidently face the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 4,199 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “EisnerAmper, one of the largest business consulting firms in the world, is comprised of EisnerAmper LLP, a licensed independent CPA firm that provides client attest services; and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 1,688 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Sikich offers the public and private sectors a diverse platform of professional services across consulting, technology, and compliance.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 590 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Dean Dorton provides an integrated suite of audit, tax, business management, consulting, and technology solutions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 558 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Bennett Thrasher provides proven guidance for financial confidence through premier tax, audit, advisory, and outsourcing solutions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 467 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Prager Metis CPAs is an independent, full service, public accounting and consulting firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 361 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 347 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Clark Nuber is an award-winning Certified Public Accounting firm located in the Seattle Metro Area.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 323 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Listed below are the two entities that make up SVA, a highly diversified, independent professional services firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 297 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Squire is a nationally recognized audit, tax, and business advisory firm serving clients across the U.S.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 243 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Headquartered in the Washington, DC metropolitan region, GRF CPAs & Advisors (GRF) is a full-service professional services firm providing clients with audit and assurance, tax…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 200 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 198 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Calvetti Ferguson is one of the largest independent CPA firms in the United States.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 193 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Established in 1924, Hannis T.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 191 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Porte Brown LLC is a full service accounting and consulting firm headquartered in the Chicago suburb of Elk Grove Village, Illinois.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 189 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Centri Business Consulting provides the highest quality advisory consulting services to its clients by being reliable and responsive to their needs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 187 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Hutchinson and Bloodgood LLP is a leading firm of Certified Public Accountants and Consultants providing Tax Planning, Auditing, Technology Consulting, Human Resources and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 165 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “DLA, LLC is a leading consultancy firm that provides a wide range of specialized services designed to optimize business operations and drive sustainable growth.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 163 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Thomas Howell Ferguson P.A.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 160 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We’re a Portland-based accounting firm with a 90+ year legacy, and we’re continuing to grow and evolve every day.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 159 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At McKonly & Asbury, the philosophy of Helping Others Thrive has been the driving force behind the success of our team, clients, and communities since being founded in 1973.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 158 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “EFPR, a Springline company, is one of Western New York’s largest accounting and business consulting firms serving clients across the United States and around the globe.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 156 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “SB & Company, LLC (SBC) is an audit, tax, risk consulting and business advisory firm that is an outstanding place where highly talented people help our clients succeed.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 151 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Lumsden McCormick CPA is located in the newly renovated Cyclorama Building in downtown Buffalo.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 148 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “RRBB," an independent member of the Crete Professionals Alliance, is the brand name under which Rosenberg Rich Baker Berman, P.A.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 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: external audit consulting 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 external audit consulting firms.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of external audit consulting firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name external audit consulting 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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External audit consulting firms based in the United States at a glance
As of Sep 28, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United States, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United States, over 895 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 external audit consulting 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 the United States whose own description of what they do matches “external audit consulting 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 external audit consulting 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 external audit consulting firms, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United States 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, 17,027 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 28, 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.
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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 external audit consulting 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 external audit consulting firms are there based in the United States?
RevenueBase identified 895 external audit consulting firms headquartered in the United States 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?
Protiviti, headquartered in Menlo Park, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most external audit consulting firms?
New York leads with 30 headquartered companies, followed by Houston (24) and Chicago (21).
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 17,027 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 895 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 28, 2026.
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About this data
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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