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The Forbes Global 2000 is a useful indicator of which are the leading companies in the world, but it is only an interpretation. The results are not definitive; any change to the criteria would produce a different list.


EXCLUSIONS AND INCONSISTENCIES

As the list is published early in the calendar year, Forbes has to use out of date information for the many non U.S companies which have year ends early in the calendar year, including Japanese companies, which all have 31 March year ends. No adjustments are made to reflect different accounting practices in different countries, which leads to some major anomalies. For example Vodafone is ranked 377 in the 2005 list due to losses created by huge writedowns of Purchased Goodwill , but if Amortisation of purchased goodwill was not charged against statutory profits in the UK, it would be in the top 20. It should also be noted that wholly state owned corporations are excluded because no market valuation exists and in some cases accounts are not publicly available either. Some of these state companies would rank highly if they were eligible, for example the national oil companies of some of the OPEC countries.


2006 LIST

Listed below are the top 50 companies featuring on the 2006 list.
# Citigroup
# General Electric
# Bank Of America
# American Intl Group
# HSBC Group
# ExxonMobil
# Royal Dutch/Shell Group
# BP
# JPMorgan Chase
# UBS
# ING Group
# Toyota Motor
# Wal-Mart Stores
# Royal Bank Of Scotland
# Total
# Chevron
# BNP Paribas
# Berkshire Hathaway
# Banco Santander
# Barclays
# Procter & Gamble
# ConocoPhillips
# IBM
# HBOS
# Verizon Communications
# Wells Fargo
# Altria Group
# AXA Group
# Allianz Worldwide
# Credit Suisse Group
# ENI
# Nippon Tel & Tel (NTT DoCoMo)
# E.ON
# Morgan Stanley
# Pfizer
# Merrill Lynch
# Fannie Mae
# Fortis
# Deutsche Telekom
# Wachovia
# ABN-Amro Holding
# Goldman Sachs Group
# Société Générale Group
# Mizuho Financial
# DaimlerChrysler
# Crédit Agricole
# Lloyds TSB Group
# Samsung Electronics
# AT&T
# Nestlé

The complete list is available at http://www.forbes.com/lists/2006/18/Rank_1.html.


2005 LIST



2005 breakdown by region



2005 breakdown by country

# United States - 719
# Japan - 326
# United Kingdom - 140
# Canada - 67
# Germany - 63
# France - 62
# Italy - 45
# South Korea - 41
# Australia - 38
# Switzerland - 37
# Taiwan - 35
# Netherlands - 33
# India - 30
# Spain - 30
# Hong Kong - 28
# Sweden - 28
# China - 25
# Bermuda - 19
# Brazil - 19
# Mexico - 18
# South Africa - 18
# Finland - 15
# Malaysia - 14
# Russia - 13
# Singapore - 13
# Thailand - 13
# Belgium - 12
# Greece - 12
# Turkey - 11
# Denmark - 10

Many other countries have between 1 and 9 companies on the list.


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