BDO International is pleased to announce that total combined fee income for all BDO Member Firms for the year ended 30 September amounted to €3.710 million. This represents an increase of 4,5% as compared to the previous year, excluding the effect of all currency movements. The Latin America region's combined fee income grew by almost 10%

Both people and office numbers are up: the total number of people increased from 44,002 in 2008 to 46,035 in 2009, while the network's offices grew from 1,095 to 1,138 over the same period.

Since the end of its financial year, BDO has announced the addition of another 5 countries to its network, through the admission of new firms in East Africa (Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda) and the Eastern Caribbean (St Lucia and St Vincent). Thus, at the start of 2010 the BDO network has member firms in 115 countries.