Margins and profitability in auditing
320 Norwegian companies in this industry. The median company kept 22.9 % of every krone.
0 % of the companies in this industry posted a negative operating result that year.
The distribution
What companies in the industry earned
One tenth of companies fell below 6.7 %, and one tenth above 48.9 %. That is the real spread in the industry, not an average.
Top against weakest third
Size
Profitability by size
| Revenue | Companies | Median operating margin |
|---|---|---|
| 1 to 5 m | 128 | 29.1 % |
| 5 to 20 m | 125 | 21.2 % |
| 20 to 100 m | 59 | 19.5 % |
Companies are split into revenue bands, with the median margin in each. Bands with fewer than ten companies are omitted, because the median becomes too unstable to show.
Geography
Where the companies are based
- Oslo39
- Bergen17
- Drammen14
- Kristiansand S12
- Trondheim11
- Stavanger8
The six postal towns with the most companies in this industry, by registered business address.
Public contracts
Who in the industry wins public contracts
7 of 320 companies in the industry have won at least one public contract since 2022, that is 2.2 %.
Only 7 companies in the industry have won a public contract since 2022. That is too few for us to say how large they are compared with the rest.
The 404 contracts we find come most often from these buyers.
- Statens vegvesen22
- Skatteetaten17
- Norad – Direktoratet for utviklingssamarbeid15
- Norsk Helsenett SF14
- Direktoratet for samfunnssikkerhet og beredskap (DSB)12
Contracts come from Doffin and TED. Our collection is not complete, and TED covers only contracts above the EEA threshold, so the figures are a floor and not a full count. We say what we find, not what exists.
Questions and answers
Common questions about auditing
- What is a normal operating margin in auditing?
- The median company kept 22.9 % of every krone. That means half of the 320 companies in the sample were above it, and half below.
- What separates the best from the weakest in auditing?
- The top third kept 39.7 % of every krone, against 9.6 % for the weakest third. The spread is 30 percentage points, and that is within the same industry, the same country and the same year.
- How many companies are there in auditing in Norway?
- We hold filed accounts for 320 Norwegian companies on this industry code with at least one million kroner in revenue. The real number is higher, since dormant and very small companies are excluded.
- How many are loss-making in auditing?
- 0 % of the companies in the sample posted a negative operating result.
- How large is a typical company in auditing?
- Median revenue is 7.1 m kr. Half of the companies fall between 3.1 m kr and 16.8 m kr.
- How much do public contracts matter in auditing?
- We find almost no public contracts in this industry since 2022, so public procurement appears to play little role here.
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