BACKGROUND

Type

UK private company, limited by

guarantee[1]

Industry

Professional services

Founded

1845; 171 years ago

London, U.K.

Founder

William Welch Deloitte

Headquarters

30 Rockefeller Plaza,
New York City, New York,U.S.A.

Area served

Worldwide

Key people

David Cruickshank(Chairman)[2]
Punit Renjen (CEO)[3]

Services

Audit
Tax
Consulting
Financial Advisory
Enterprise Risk
Legal

Revenue
Number of

US$ 35.2 billion (2015)[4]

225,400 (2015)[4]

employees

Website

deloitte.com

Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited commonly

referred to as Deloitte, is a multinational
professional services firm headquartered in New
York City in the United States. Deloitte is one of
the "Big Four" and the second largest
professional services network in the world by
revenue and the largest by the number of
professionals. Deloitte provides audit, tax,
consulting, enterprise risk and financial advisory
services with more than 225,400 professionals
globally. In FY 2015, earned a record $35.2 billion
USD in revenues. Deloitte has been ranked
number one by market share in consulting by
Gartner, and for the fourth consecutive year,
Kennedy Consulting Research and Advisory ranks
Deloitte number one in both global consulting
and management consulting based on aggregate
revenue. In 2016, Fortune magazine ranked
Deloitte as one of the 100 Best Companies to
Work For and Bloomberg Business has
consistently named Deloitte as the best place to
launch a career.
HISTORY
Back to London.lets meet William Welch
Deloitte. Born in 1818, Deloitte was the grandson
of Count de Loitte, an expatriate of France who
left during the French Revolution. Deloitte was a
quick learner and began his career at the age of
15 in the bankruptcy courts of London. Deloitte
opened his own office at the age of 25 with a
focus on the railway industry. In fact, Deloitte
was employed as the first external auditor EVER
appointed
and
developed
a
system
of
safeguarding records to protect investors.
Deloitte would go on to become president of the
Institute of Chartered Accountants and open a
U.S. practice in 1893. Sir George Alexander
Touche (b. 1861), an accountant from, you
guessed itLondon, opened a practice in 1899.
He later spread the practice to New York,
capitalizing on the growing demand for income
tax preparation. Over the course of the 20th
century, Deloitte and Touches separate firms
merged with a number of other firms in various
markets.
One of the key mergers was the
combination of Touch Ross (as it was then
known) and the Japanese firm, Tohmatsu Awoki &
Co in 1975. In 1989, the firm then known as
Deloitte Haskins & Sells broke up. The majority