Business Advisory Services Marketplace: Key Trends, Profiles and Forecasts
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Part of Kennedy’s Business Advisory Services consulting research series

Essential for realizing the dynamics now facing buyers and providers of these critical services, Business Advisory Services Marketplace offers objective analysis of the variety of critical services currently available and detailed profiles of leading Business Advisory Services (BAS) practices.
This comprehensive market research provides in-depth analysis of the key trends and client demand forecasts, broken out by:
    BAS Subsegment:
  • Transaction Advisory
  • Forensics and Litigation Consulting
  • Reporting, Accounting & Controls Advisory
  • Risk Advisory
  • Crisis Recovery
  • Tax Advisory
The research also includes comprehensive details for market size and growth by client industry:
    Cient Industry:
  • CPG
  • Retail & Leisure
  • Manufacturing
  • Healthcare
  • Public Sector
  • Financial Services
  • Energy
  • Communications & Media
  • Utilities
  • Other Industries
And, forecasts by key geography:
    Geographic Region:
  • North America
  • Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA)
  • Asia Pacific (APAC)
  • Latin America
In addition to traditional four-year forecasts, Kennedy has modeled long-term BAS market scenarios forecast out to 2018. The analysis foretells which service segments and geographic regions will face increasing demand in both the long- and short-term, and how BAS practices are poised to respond.
Complete in-depth analysis includes:
  • Key Market Trends – offers critical analysis of the principal drivers within each of the respective BAS sub-segments and the seven primary factors that put BAS at the forefront of the overall consulting marketplace, including:
    • Strong movement to advance security regulations and activities world-wide (information risk and privacy being key factors), in the wake of high-profile security disasters
    • Increased pressure from regulators and investors to actively manage financial reporting risk, driving it to the corporate executives' minds
    • Re-emergence of the "Divesting Big Three" (PwC, KPMG and E & Y) into consulting through the leverage of BAS capabilities and BAS client relationships
    • Emergence of a number of pure BAS firms with strong growth trajectories
    • Development of BAS-related offerings (e.g., risk advisory, forensics and litigation, transaction advisory) at some of the large brand-name consultancies
    • Growth in power of the primary client for BAS services – the CFO
    • Credit crises and ensuing repercussions for financial valuations and risk assessment
  • Market Size and Growth Forecasts – explain the number of evolutions that are expected to occur within individual BAS service lines over the forecast period and includes comprehensive forecasts, by: service sub-segment, geography and client industry.
  • Long-Term Demand Expectations – include market scenarios forecast out to 2018. The analysis foretells which service sub-segments and geographies will have strong potential with respect to the long- and short-term.
  • The BAS Provider Landscape – provides clients with a complete break-out of the key trends that will profoundly impact the competitive dynamics in the BAS provider landscape over the forecast period and includes advisements on critical situations worth observing. The analysis provides insight into the historic development of BAS practices, analysis of medium and small BAS practices and revenue ranking of top firms by each of the six BAS services segments.
  • The Kennedy Vanguard for Business Advisory Consulting Practices – features exclusive ratings of the most powerful consultancies in BAS. Firms are assessed on the relative breadth and depth of their respective capabilities within BAS.
Firms featured in this research include:
  • Alix Partners
  • Alvarez & Marsal
  • Baker Tilly International
  • BDO International
  • BearingPoint
  • Control Risks Group
  • CACI
  • CRA International
  • CBIZ, Inc.
  • Deloitte
  • Ernst & Young
  • FTI
  • Grant Thornton
  • Hill & Associates
  • Horwath International
  • Huron Consulting Group
  • Jefferson Wells
  • KPMG
  • Kroll
  • LECG
  • MMC (Marsh & McLennan Companies)
  • Management Consulting Group
  • Moore Stephens
  • Navigant Consulting
  • Praxity
  • PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)
  • Protiviti
  • PKF Consulting
  • Resources Global Professionals
  • RSM International
  • Towers Perrin
Business Advisory Services Marketplace is an exclusive 420-page report, supported by 120 tables and charts.
If you have any questions about Kennedy’s Business Advisory Services market research, please call 888.259.1500, (international: +1.603.924.6380), or contact our client-relations team.
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