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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.