Ernst & Young, one of the world's leading professional services organizations, help companies around the world to identify and capitalize on business opportunities. We deliver the value that clients care about; we provide ideas and solutions tailored to clients' needs ; and we produce tangible results . Ernst & Young 's depth and breath of service and our global reach mean we have the resources to meet client needs anywhere in the world.

Ernst & Young audits 18% of Business Week's Global 1000 companies and our worldwide tax practice is a global leader. We are the third largest management consulting practice, with more than 15,000 consultants around the world. We also work with entrepreneurial growth companies and their owners and investors. Worldwide, we advised 15% of companies that went public in 1998. Finally, we have a global corporate finance network that coordinates more than 450 professionals in 31 countries.

Specialist Industry Focus

Ernst & Young offers assistance to companies across a broad range of industry sectors. We provide specific services to automotive and energy industries, retail and consumer products, the life sciences, financial services, and the technology, communications and entertainment sector , in every part of the world . Our clients include such world-class companies as British Airways, IKEA, Coca-Cola, LEGO, Sun Microsystems, Porsche, and Time Warner.

Services

Assurance and Advisory Business Services -Ernst & Young auditors apply the same methodology, access the firm's vast stores of knowledge, and communicate in real time across a global technology platform. Our innovated audit approach is more efficient and delivers more insights to support management thinking and action. Specialty AASS services include internal audit, information systems security and due diligence.

Global Tax Services-More than 10,000 tax professionals around the world provide comprehensive and sophisticated tax assistance in minimizing global taxation. Services cover all areas of international tax and our Foreign Tax Desk Program ensures access to fast, authoritative advice on the international tax ramifications of various business decisions.
Management Consulting - Ernst & Young consultants help clients solve mission-critical problems and achieve significant improvements in areas such as revenue growth, operating efficiencies, and capital management. We offer on-line consulting to US entrepreneurial growth companies through Ernie and to Italian companies through Gate.

Ernst & Young employs over 85,000 people in 701 cities, in 133 countries around the world. We have offices in 356 European cities, 175 cities in the America, 64 in the Middle East and Africa, and a growing practice in Asia Pacific-106 cities.

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