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The Times also listed EY in its Top 50
drive competitive advantage by proactively
Employers for Women and it was
managing their capital agenda, which
recognised by Stonewall as
determines how they strategically
Employer of the Year and
raise, invest, optimise and
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Global Best Practice
preserve their capital.
EY is the only professional
Index. It also won
services firm in the UK to have
two Management
Its advisory services help
gone public with targets to
Consultancies
clients with their most
improve representation at partner
Association
complex and pressing
level for women and black & ethnic
awards, achieved
challenges. Its teams
minorities. Currently it maintains
Platinum Standard
bring broad sector
the highest proportion of female
in the Corporate
experience and deep
partners of any Big 4 firm,
Responsibility Index and
subject matter knowledge
confirmed by Accountancy
its Disability Working
to help clients protect and
Age’s 2012 Top 50 survey
Group won the award
transform their organisations
of UK firms.
for Outstanding Employee
in order to improve
Network Group at the European
their performance.
Diversity Awards.
Ernst & Young (EY) is a global leader in assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services.
Its 167,000 people, operating in more than 140 countries, are united by EY’s commitment
to doing its part in building a better working world and to creating the highest performing
teams, delivering exceptional client service, worldwide.
Achievements
EY was the recipient of a host of awards and
accolades in 2012, including being identified as
one of the UK’s Leading Employers and one of
the UK’s Top Ten Best Large Workplaces in the
Great Place to Work listing 2012.
It was named Top Professional Services Firm
and Third Most Attractive European Employer
by Universum’s first European Talent Attraction
index 2012. TAS also won Accounting Firm
of the Year award – Financial Times European
Middle East and Africa Awards 2012.
It won Best VAT Team in the LexisNexis
Taxation awards, a Big Tick Award from
Business in the Community for its approach
to flexible working and sustainable travel and
Graduate Recruiters Awards for integrated
marketing and best employer brand.
Brand History
 1903: Alwin and Theodore Ernst form
Ernst & Ernst in Cleveland, US.
 1906: Arthur and Stanley Young form
Arthur Young & Company in Chicago, US.
 1924: Arthur Young allies with
Broad Paterson & Co, England. Ernst
& Ernst allies with Whinney, Smith &
Whinney, England.
 1979: Ernst & Whinney forms and
becomes the fourth largest accountancy
firm in the world. Arthur Young’s
European offices join several large local
European firms.
Recent Developments
 1989: Arthur Young merges with Ernst
Global growth is the business issue of today.
In ‘Growing Beyond’, EY is exploring how
companies can grow faster by expanding into
new markets, finding new ways to innovate and
taking new approaches to talent. In addition,
EY’s UK attractiveness survey highlights the UK
as a lead destination for inward investment.
& Whinney to create EY.
programmes such as: Smart Futures,
ThinkForward, Accelerate and the EY School
Leaver Programme.
Promotion
EY is committed to doing its part in building
a better working world. One of the ways EY
has been doing this in the UK has been to help
tackle social mobility and NEETS (young people
Not in Education, Employment or Training).
In addition, it has been fostering the skills
and talents of the next generation of young
business leaders and social entrepreneurs.
For example, EY is one of the founders of the
Social Business Trust and has established
EY ITEM Club is the only non-governmental
economic forecasting group to use the HM
Treasury model of the UK economy. ITEM’s
forecasts are independent of any political,
economic or business bias, providing an
impartial benchmark for other private and
public economic forecasts. It produces a
quarterly summary of each UK forecast in
addition to special reports.
EY has a deep commitment to promoting
entrepreneurship, and it is widely recognised
as the world leader in advising, guiding and
recognising entrepreneurs – through its
highly respected Entrepreneur of the Year
(EOY) programme which takes place in more
than 140 cities in over 50 countries. It makes
this investment because it passionately
believes that encouraging entrepreneurship
and innovation results in economic growth
and prosperity.
Market
managing their tax obligations responsibly and
proactively; divesting their non-core assets;
Globalisation is shaping everything in the
better managing their people; and monitoring
world and EY works with some of the biggest
and responding to fraud and corruption.
and most well-known businesses and brands
across the globe. It is equally committed to
The insights and quality services EY
helping middle market organisations,
delivers help build trust and confidence
high growth companies and
in the capital markets and in
entrepreneurial businesses to
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economies the world over.
grow and develop.
The 2012 UK finalists
In 2012, largely due to the
Product
of the Entrepreneur Of
success of its globalisation
The needs of EY’s clients are
The Year programme
strategy and investment
constantly changing. Being a
had combined
revenues of
in top talent, EY in the UK
trusted adviser is crucial to being
£18 billion.
announced its highest revenue
able to respond to these needs.
growth in six years. It invested
Globally, EY provides services across
heavily in better advising clients,
four service lines – assurance, advisory,
ranging from the public sector to financial
tax, and transaction advisory services (TAS) in
services, on improving their performance;
principal industry sectors.
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It is also extremely important to EY to be at
the forefront of diversity and inclusiveness.
Its high-performing teams instinctively value
diverse views; they lead inclusively and bring
their cross-cultural strength and sensitivity to
bear in helping EY and clients to grow beyond
their expectations.
Its assurance services provide consistent
worldwide audits by using a proven global
methodology and deploying the latest, highquality auditing tools. Its accounting and
forensic services deliver business insight in
increasingly complex corporate, regulatory and
market environments.
Brand Values
Running through everything it does are
its shared values, which inspire its people
worldwide and guide them to do the right
thing. Its commitment to quality is embedded
in who it is and in everything it does. Those
values are: people who demonstrate integrity,
respect, and teaming; people with energy,
enthusiasm, and the courage to lead; people
who build relationships based on doing the
right thing.
It also helps businesses to develop responsible
tax strategies. Its highly networked teams
advise on planning, effective compliance and
open, transparent reporting as well as helping
businesses maintain effective tax authority
relationships – wherever they operate.
TAS helps clients make better and more
informed decisions about how they
strategically manage capital and transactions
in a changing world. It enables businesses to
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