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Wal-Mart Tops List of Highest Public Company Accounting Fees

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Public Company Accounting Fees

Public companies headquartered in Arkansas ranked by total accounting fees paid to outside auditors in most recently reported fiscal year

Company
Accounting Firm
Fees 2014
1-year Change
5-year Change
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. Ernst & Young LLP $20,478,000 7.0% 24.1%
Bentonville
Tyson Foods Inc. PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP $5,870,233 29.2% 41.1%
Springdale
Windstream Holdings Inc. PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP $4,369,000 18.9% 43.4%*
Little Rock
Acxiom Corp. KPMG LLP $3,553,000 -6.4% 43.6%
Little Rock
Murphy Oil Corp.** KPMG LLP $3,217,262 -29.0% -10.9%
El Dorado
Murphy USA Inc.** KPMG LLP $1,340,000 -23.7% NA
El Dorado
J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc. Ernst & Young LLP $1,333,952 26.3% 41.8%
Lowell
Dillard’s Inc. KPMG LLP $1,266,300 10.0% -9.2%
Little Rock
ArcBest Corp.# Ernst & Young LLP $1,126,442 19.7% 42.1%
Fort Smith
Deltic Timber Corp. KPMG LLP $959,532 19.1% 73.4%
El Dorado
Home BancShares Inc. BKD LLP $890,412 -14.0% 67.1%
Conway
Simmons First National Corp. BKD LLP $870,990 20.3% 46.3%
Pine Bluff
Bank of the Ozarks Inc. Crowe Horwath LLP $744,500 51.6% 139.7%
Little Rock
Bear State Financial Inc. BKD LLP $397,057 45.2% -29.0%##
Little Rock
USA Truck Inc. Grant Thornton LLP $382,200 59.3% 30.5%
Van Buren
Inuvo Inc. Mayer Hoffman McCann PC $350,517 -19.6% 18.9%†
Conway
America’s Car-Mart Inc. Grant Thornton LLP $291,572 -2.9% 9.6%
Bentonville
P.A.M. Transport Inc. Grant Thornton LLP $276,000 29.0% -0.8%
Tontitown
Advanced Environmental Technologies Inc. Hogan Taylor LLP $163,750 3.0% 7.0%
Springdale

*As Windstream Corp., which was reorganized in 2013. 2015 spinoff Communication Sales & Leasing Inc. has not completed its first fiscal year.
**Murphy USA was spun off of Murphy Oil on Aug. 30, 2013
#As Arkansas Best Corp. before name change in 2014
##As First Federal Bancshares of Arkansas Inc., which was reorganized in 2011
†While headquartered in Clearwater, Florida, before moving to Conway in 2013

Source: U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission filings for the most recently reported fiscal year and comparisons one and five years earlier. Most fiscal years ended on Dec. 31, 2014, with the following exceptions: Tyson Foods Inc. (Sept. 27, 2014), Dillard’s Inc. and Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (Jan. 31, 2015), Acxiom Corp. (March 31, 2015) and America’s Car-Mart (April 30, 2015). Tyson Foods has not yet reported accounting fees for the fiscal year that ended Oct. 3, 2015.

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