Datamonitor's Accountancy in Italy industry profile is an essential resource for top-level data and analysis covering the accountancy industry. It includes detailed data on market size and segmentation, plus textual analysis of the key trends and competitive landscape, demographic information, and descriptions of the leading companies.

Scope

* Contains an executive summary and data on value, volume and segmentation

* Provides textual analysis of the industry's prospects, competitive landscape and leading companies

* Includes a five-year forecast of the industry

* Supported by the key macroeconomic and demographic data affecting the market

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Market definition - The accountancy market consists of all revenues generated by firms engaged in designing, preparing and auditing accounting records. Income from assurance, tax and other accounting related fields like developing budgets, preparing tax returns; processing payrolls, bookkeeping, and billing have also been included. Any currency conversions used in the creation of this report have been calculated using 2005 annual average exchange rates.

For the purpose of this report, Europe comprises Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, the UK, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Russia, Poland and Hungary.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 3
CHAPTER 1 Market Overview 7
1.1 Market Definition 7
1.2 Research Highlights 7
1.3 Market Analysis 8
CHAPTER 2 Market Value 9
CHAPTER 3 Market Segmentation I 10
CHAPTER 4 Market Segmentation II 11
CHAPTER 5 Competitive Landscape 12
CHAPTER 6 Leading Companies 13
6.1 PricewaterhouseCoopers 13
6.2 KPMG International 13
6.3 Ernst & Young International 13
6.4 Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu 14
CHAPTER 7 Market Forecasts 15
7.1 Market Value Forecast 15
CHAPTER 8 Macroeconomic Indicators 16

CHAPTER 9 Further Reading 18
9.1 Sources 18
9.2 Related Datamonitor Research 18

LIST OF TABLES
Table 1: Italy Accountancy Market Value: $ million, 2001-2005 9
Table 2: Italy Accountancy Market Segmentation I: % Share, by Value, 2005 10
Table 3: Italy Accountancy Market Segmentation II: % Share, by Value, 2005 11
Table 4: Italy Accountancy Market Value Forecast: $ million, 2005-2010 15
Table 5: Italy Size of Population (million) , 2001-2005 16
Table 6: Italy GDP (1995=100), 2001-2005 16
Table 7: Italy Inflation, 2001-2005 16
Table 8: Italy Exchange Rate, 2001-2005 17