About WAI

The first truly global accountancy database

Firm rankings
Auditor changes
World News and Daily News
Newsletters

World Accounting Intelligence is a unique and continually updated database providing exclusive, in-depth competitive data with up-to-the-minute news on the global accounting industry. WAI is an essential tool for all professionals making critical decisions and formulating market-conquering strategies.

Using the latest technology and an unrivalled worldwide network of industry analysts, WAI identifies the real news and critical trends for accounting firms with news stories and abstracts uploaded to the site throughout the day. The database currently includes over 5,000 news stories, more than 100 country surveys and over 4,000 auditor changes and is growing on a daily basis.

Firm rankings

With a commitment to surveying 25 countries and 7 regions each calendar year, WAI also provides a comprehensive search function allowing firm rankings to be presented by fee income, service line fee split and also by partner, professional staff or administrative staff; and can be arranged by growth rate, fee income and staff numbers.

Auditor changes

Search the only database of publicly quoted companies' auditor changes by international accounting network. View by the name of the public company, former and new auditors and the statements made by each regarding the change. WAI allows instant analysis of the latest audit wins and losses by arranging data by date of change, country and international affiliate.

World and Daily News

On subscription to WAI, you automatically receive the WAI Daily email news service delivered to your desktop every morning. Read the biggest accounting stories each day as they happen, ensuring you are always up-to-date on the latest developments across the globe.

Newsletters

WAI gives you electronic access to two newsletter titles with a searchable archive of all editions for the past few years.

International Accounting Bulletin keeps you in touch with the latest mergers and acquisitions, key appointments and potential markets. WAI helps you benchmark your performance against industry leaders worldwide by providing an exclusive survey of accounting firms in leading and emerging markets, delivering 20 country and regional surveys per year from around the globe.

The Accountant provides worldwide analysis on the politics of accounting and unparalleled reporting on the most important regulatory developments and issues shaping the profession.

By subscribing to WAI, users are able to view the newsletters the moment they are released for publication.