viernes, 16 de diciembre de 2011

List of top consulting firms 2012


Following is a list of the top consulting firms around the world with such details as ranking, company name, website url, headquarters, year founded, approximate number of employees, male to female ratio, and other statistics. Being a top consulting firm do not means always prestige and do not bring quality and values automatically, but clients and job seekers of the consulting profession may be interested by these statistics.

Purpose: To summarize and provide beneficial statistical information about the consulting industry and provide quick access gateway to a list of the top consulting companies and websites.
Serving: Researchers, students, professionals, job seekers in the consulting industry and all who seek information about top consulting companies.

 

Disclaimer: We are not claiming any rights, responsibilites or ownership pertaining to creating, developing, designing, or programming any of the websites listed on this page. All websites listed on this page are publically available for viewing on the internet.

Rankings: Any ranking information regarding the listings above have been made by 3rd parties, organizations which make their ranking info available on public viewable pages free of charge. For this particular listing we have gathered inforamtion from various sources on the internet, including, cnn.com, vault.com, fortune.com and linkedin.com.

The 2011 Best Firms to Work For (according to Consulting Magazine):

 

The Best Consulting Firms to Work For 2011

  1. Bain & Company
  2. The Boston Consulting Group
  3. North Highland
  4. Point B
  5. Deloitte Consulting
  6. Slalom Consulting
  7. McKinsey & Company
  8. PwC
  9. Booz Allen Hamilton
  10. Huron Consulting Group
  11. Ernst & Young
  12. Accenture
  13. Crowe Horwath
  14. Monitor
  15. A.T. Kearney

The Best Small Consulting Firms to Work For 2011

  1. Stroud Consulting
  2. Impact Advisors
  3. Cask
  4. Vynamic
  5. Infinitive
  6. Fitzgerald Analytics
  7. Lenati
  8. Jabian Consulting
  9. PeopleFirm
  10. HiSoft (formerly Nouveon)
  11. Plus Consulting
  12. Meridian Compensation Partners
  13. Marakon
  14. SEI
  15. IBB Consulting Group

 

 

 

Rank

Consulting Firms

HQ

Industry

Type

# of
employees

Year
founded

Med
age

Male

Fe-

male

1

McKinsey & Company Greater New York City Area Management Consulting Partnership 15000 1926 29 67% 33%

2

The Boston Consulting Group, Inc Greater Boston Area Management Consulting Partnership 6000 1963 28 67% 33%

3

Bain & Company Greater Boston Area Management Consulting Privately Held 10000 1973 28 65% 35%

4

Booz & Company Washington DC Metro Area Management Consulting Privately Held 22000 1914 32 64% 36%

5

Deloitte Consulting LLP Greater New York City Area Financial Services Partnership 168000 - 29 61% 39%

6

Monitor Group Greater Boston Area Management Consulting Privately Held 1500 1983 29 63% 37%

7

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP Greater New York City Area Accounting Partnership 17500 - 29 59% 41%

8

Mercer LLC Greater New York City Area Human Resources Public 18000 1937 34 51% 49%

9

Ernst & Young LLP Greater New York City Area Accounting Partnership 144000 - 29 59% 41%

10

Oliver Wyman Greater New York City Area Management Consulting Public 1001 - 30 70% 30%

11

Accenture Greater Chicago Area Management Consulting Public 177000 1989 30 67% 33%

12

IBM Global Business Services Greater New York City Area Information Technology and Services Public 300000 1911 34 76% 24%

13

KPMG LLP Amsterdam Area, Netherlands Accounting Partnership 137000 - 30 60% 40%

14

Towers Watson Greater Philadelphia Area Management Consulting Privately Held 6400 1934 34 52% 48%

15

AlixPartners, LLP Greater Detroit Area Management Consulting Privately Held 900 1981 35 77% 23%

16

A.T. Kearney Greater Chicago Area Management Consulting Partnership 2700 1926 30 68% 32%

17

Braxton Consulting Eurpe & Latin America Management Consulting Privately Held 250 1996 31 54% 46%

18

The Parthenon Group Greater Boston Area Management Consulting Privately Held 200 1999 28 62% 38%

19

Towers Watson - Financial Services Public 14000 - 34 53% 47%

20

L.E.K. Consulting London, UK Management Consulting Partnership 900 1983 28 70% 30%

21

FTI Consulting, Inc. Washington DC Metro Area Management Consulting Public 3500 1982 32 71% 29%

22

Alvarez & Marsal Greater New York City Area Management Consulting Privately Held 1600 1983 33 73% 27%

23

NERA Economic Consulting Greater New York City Area Management Consulting Public 600 1961 27 61% 39%

24

Capgemini Paris Area, France Information Technology and Services Privately Held 91000 1967 32 77% 23%

25

Navigant Consulting, Inc. Greater Chicago Area Management Consulting Public 2500 1983 32 62% 38%

26

Huron Consulting Group Greater Chicago Area Management Consulting Public 2000 2002 30 61% 39%

27

Hewitt Associates Greater Chicago Area Outsourcing/Offshoring Public 25000 1940 32 55% 45%

28

Roland Berger Strategy Consultants - Management Consulting Partnership 2100 1967 28 72% 28%

29

ZS Associates Greater Chicago Area Management Consulting Privately Held 1400 1983 27 72% 28%

30

CRA International, Inc. Greater Boston Area Management Consulting Public 800 1965 33 65% 35%

31

Arthur D. Little Paris Area, France Management Consulting Privately Held 1000 - 30 75% 25%

32

Kurt Salmon Associates Greater Atlanta Area Management Consulting Public 700 1935 33 63% 37%

33

LECG San Francisco Bay Area Management Consulting Public 1200 1988 34 69% 31%

34

Gallup Consulting District of Columbia Management Consulting Privately Held 2000 - 27 60% 40%

35

Aon Consulting Worldwide Greater Chicago Area Management Consulting Public 6300 1983 36 52% 48%

36

BraxtonTechnology Europe, Asia & Latin America Technology Consulting & Services Privately Held 219 2005 26 74% 26%

37

Cornerstone Research San Francisco Bay Area Legal Services Privately Held 201 1989 27 61% 39%

38

Corporate Executive Board Washington DC Metro Area Management Consulting Public 2000 1979 28 50% 50%

39

Hay Group Greater Philadelphia Area Management Consulting Privately Held 2600 1943 32 47% 53%

40

Analysis Group, Inc. Greater Boston Area Management Consulting Privately Held 500 1981 30 62% 38%

41

Milliman, Inc Greater Seattle Area Insurance Privately Held 2000 1947 35 62% 38%

42

Zolfo Cooper Greater New York City Area Financial Services Privately Held 75 - 31 67% 33%

43

Mars & Co - - - - 1979 - - -

44

The Advisory Board Company Washington DC Metro Area Hospital & Health Care Public 1000 1979 28 43% 57%

45

Putnam Associates Greater Boston Area Management Consulting Privately Held 50 1988 26 64% 36%

46

First Manhattan Consulting Group Greater New York City Area Management Consulting Privately Held 51 1980 26 76% 24%

47

IMS Health Incorporated Greater Philadelphia Area Pharmaceuticals Public 10000 1954 34 57% 43%

48

Buck Consultants Greater New York City Area Human Resources Public 1900 1916 38 55% 45%

49

Giuliani Partners LLC Greater New York City Area Management Consulting Privately Held 11 2002 45 79% 21%

50

Archstone Consulting Greater New York City Area Management Consulting Privately Held 250 2003 34 63% 37%

 

martes, 22 de marzo de 2011

One-stop-shop


One-stop-shop
Companies on groups will be able to deal with a single tax administration called principal tax authority, which should be the one belonging to the Member State in which the parent company of the group is resident for tax purposes also called principal taxpayer.
There is also an advance ruling mechanism on the proposal. Audits will be initiated and coordinated by the main tax authority but the tax authorities of any Member State in which a group member is subject to tax may request the initiation of an audit.
All the disputes between tax authorities and taxpayers are dealt with by an administrative body which is competent to hear appeals at first instance in accordance to the law of the Member State of the principal tax authority.

lunes, 14 de marzo de 2011

Network/Social Ties and Supply Chain Links

Network/Social Ties and Supply Chain Links.

A number of recent studies have highlighted the importance of network/social ties and supply chain links in triggering SMEs‟ first internationalization step and extending internationalization processes. Both North American studies particularly reported the stimulating effect on export activity of firms ‟ soft assets, including social and network capital, some of which may have accrued through managers‟ immigrant background and associated links. The study among fish exporters from the Azores Islands, an autonomous Portuguese archipelago in the North Atlantic, some 900 miles from the European mainland, highlighted the importance of family and social ties with emigrant communities in global markets in driving SME internationalization (see Boxes 3 and 4)These include research among American, Australian, Canadian and Portuguese businesses. Kocker and Buhl also observed that taking advantage of collaborative links is a common motive among the firms they investigated across ten OECD countries.
Finally, it is important to mention the value of the linkages back to their birth countries that migrants can bring in arranging exporting opportunities [OECD CFE/SME(2008)5/PART1/REV1].

miércoles, 9 de febrero de 2011

European Union Direct Taxes

Permanent Establishment is a vital concept in international taxation. While for direct taxes, it is mainly defined by the OECD Model Convention, the European VAT Directive and its implementing Regulation provide an EU-wide approach for VAT.
Difficulties arise as terminology and definitions in indirect and direct tax diverge. Moreover, countries have implemented and interpreted the EU and OECD rules in a different way, impacting on issues like cross-border reorganisations, transfer pricing, taxation of dividends and interest and royalties, tax residence, temporary and permanent transfer of assets, place of supply and VAT liability.
In both direct and indirect tax, the concept of Permanent Establishment has undergone very recent changes: The 2010 changes to the OECD Model Convention and Commentary, and in particular the new Art. 7, will be adopted in national law, as speakers from the Netherlands and Germany will report. The effect of the new definition on treaties with other countries will also be considered.
Some of this topic is addressed in the new book "European Union Direct Taxes", by the International Tax Professor Salvador Trinxet Llorca.
In indirect tax, the current more important issue is the practical consequences of the adoption of the Regulation implementing the EU VAT Directive in January 2011.

lunes, 20 de diciembre de 2010

SME Internationalization

This realisation was at the heart of the 2007 OECD-APEC study on Removing Barriers to SME Access to International Markets, which provided general findings on the major barriers to SME internationalization as perceived by SMEs and policymakers in OECD and APEC member economies. The need to obtain a greater depth of understanding and an updated view of the issues raised by the OECD-APEC study provided a raison d'être for this follow-up project. Internationalization and international entrepreneurship among small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) has remained a topic of considerable contemporary relevance, principally owing to the observed growth effects of cross-border venturing, and the demonstrated capacity of SMEs to drive economic development at national, regional, and global levels (European Commission, 2007). Other value adding features include the additional focus on motivations for SME internationalization ; the coverage of recently available documentation from economies involved in the OECD enlargement (Chile, Estonia, Israel, Russia, and Slovenia) and enhanced engagement process (Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, and South Africa); and the sub-national and sectoral insights offered on SME internationalization barriers, motivations and support programs.

jueves, 16 de diciembre de 2010

The specific objectives of OCDE report about SME Internationalisation

                        i. To analyse in-depth the most significant barriers to SME internationalisation identified from the 2007 OECD-APEC sponsored research on this theme, with a view to uncovering new insights into the nature of these top barriers;

                        ii. To review recent work pertaining to factors that drive or motivate the internationalisation of SMEs; and

                        iii. To develop a deeper understanding of the current programs for SME internationalisation, particularly the specific measures aimed at addressing the top barriers identified.

 

To ensure a greater depth of understanding on SME internationalisation barriers, this study focused on the top four barriers identified by the OECD-APEC study as being by far and away the most serious impediments to SME internationalisation (see Table 1). These include 1) Shortage of working capital to finance exports; 2) Identifying foreign business opportunities; 3) Limited information to locate/analyse markets; and 4) Inability to contact potential overseas customers. A fifth barrier, „lack of managerial time, skills and knowledge, is additionally examined. The reasoning is threefold: one, this reflects the importance of this barrier in the Member Economy survey (see Table 2); two, the consistently highlighted primacy of managerial factors in previous relevant global surveys; and three, the widely acknowledged importance of skilled human resources in all areas of economic activity, including market innovation.

To provide an updated appreciation of pertinent aspects of SME internationalisation, the report reviewed the post OECD-APEC survey evidence on the top barriers, drivers and support programs across OECD and APEC member economies and other economies involved in the OECD enlargement and enhanced engagement processes. This has yielded important longitudinal insights, thereby indicating that support programs are appropriately focused on the most resilient and enduring of the factors affecting SME internationalisation.