{"id":7166,"date":"2017-07-06T14:20:45","date_gmt":"2017-07-06T18:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/?page_id=2619"},"modified":"2026-03-02T18:28:57","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T18:28:57","slug":"accounting-firms","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/your-life-career\/career-exploration-professional-development\/for-ll-m-students\/starting-your-job-search\/explore-your-career-options\/practice-settings\/accounting-firms\/","title":{"rendered":"Accounting Firms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Accounting firms typically employ certified public accountants and lawyers to work in the areas of tax, audit, and sometimes management consulting.\u00a0 The &#8220;Big Four,&#8221; are the largest companies in the accounting industry, and they are Deloitte, Ernst and Young (EY), KPMG, and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC).<\/p>\n<p>The Big Four, along with other large and small accounting firms, will frequently target tax-focused LL.M. students to work in areas such as international tax, mergers and acquisitions, state and local tax, and estate planning.<\/p>\n<h2>Web Resources<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vault.com\/company-rankings\/accounting\/vault-accounting-50?sRankID=252\">Vault Accounting Firm Rankings<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/karstenstrauss\/2017\/06\/20\/the-best-accounting-firms-in-america-in-2017\/#29a4c475f5c2\">Forbes Top Accounting Firms (2017)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/statistics\/188725\/25-largest-us-accounting-firms-by-net-revenue-2010\/\">Statista &#8211; Leading Accounting Firms by Revenue<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Accounting firms typically employ certified public accountants and lawyers to work in the areas of tax, audit, and sometimes management consulting.\u00a0 The &#8220;Big Four,&#8221; are the largest companies in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":0,"parent":6870,"menu_order":81,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":"","_tec_slr_enabled":"","_tec_slr_layout":""},"class_list":["post-7166","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"ticketed":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/your-life-career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/your-life-career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/your-life-career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/your-life-career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/your-life-career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7166"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/your-life-career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34467,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/your-life-career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7166\/revisions\/34467"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/your-life-career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/your-life-career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}