Ernst & Young is a global leader in professional services providing audit, tax and transaction advisory services to our clients. We are recognized for "delivering value" to our clients through our commitment to understanding our client's business challenges and providing solutions to help them achieve their goals and objectives. Ernst & Young is the trusted business advisor to companies in many diverse industries and serve our clients with the highest levels of integrity, quality, professionalism and independence. The firm is committed to helping our clients to produce the highest quality of financial reporting by getting the right information, making the right judgments and taking the right actions - every time, on every engagement, everywhere in the world.

The scope of Ernst & Young's services are based on our financial, transaction and risk management knowledge in audit, tax and transaction advisory and delivered by our 110,000 professionals in 700 locations in 140 countries worldwide.

Ernst & Young established its Hong Kong office in 1973. The firm was one of the first international professional services firms permitted by the Chinese government to establish a representative office in Beijing in 1981. It was also one of the first firms approved by the Chinese government to establish a joint venture firm, Ernst & Young Hua Ming, in Beijing in 1992. Ernst & Young merged with one of China's Largest and most highly regarded local accounting firms, Shanghai-based Da Hua, in 2001. The merger was the first of its kind between a local Chinese and an International accountant firm.

Today, Ernst & Young China is one of the leading professional services firms with over 4,000 professionals in its Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Dalian, Wuhan, Chengdu and Macau offices. We have an extensive array of audit, tax and transaction advisory professionals and an extensive network of government contacts to assist domestic and multinational companies with PRC laws and regulations as well as to do business globally. Ernst & Young is a leader in Initial Public Offerings on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange with many of these listing clients being Mainland China based. In addition, the firm has a leadership role in assisting with A-Share and B-Share listings in China.

Ernst & Young's Awards:

Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For (1999 to 2005)

Most Admired Knowledge Enterprise (MAKESM) Award (1998 to 2004)

Training Top 10 Learning Organizations (2002 to 2004)

InformationWeek 500 Most Innovative Users of IT (2000 to 2004)

International Tax Review's Top Ranking Tax Advisor (2004)

Fortune Top 25 Companies Favored by MBAs to Work For (2002)

CPA Personnel Report's Number 1 Professional Services Firm (2001)

Public Accounting Report Leader for New Audit Clients (2000 & 2001)

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