Ernst & Young LLP Florence AL

Ernst & Young is a privately held provider of accounting and auditing, tax reporting and operations, tax advisory, and business consulting services. The company operates in around 140 countries in Americas, Europe, Asia and Africa and is headquartered in New York City, New York with 114,000 employees. Ernst & Young is one of the largest professional services firms in the world and one of the Big Four auditors, along with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu (Deloitte) and KPMG. According to Forbes Magazine, it is also the 7th largest private company in the United States as of 2007. Ernst & Young is a global organization consisting of many member firms.

Ernst & Young's integrity and professional competence are the cornerstones of its global organization. The partnership works hard to earn and maintain its clients' trust and confidence and in doing so, it is able to provide quality professional services in an independent, objective, and ethical manner. EY has implemented a number of global professional development initiatives and quality and compliance safeguards.

EY provides a range of services, including accounting and auditing, tax reporting and operations, tax advisory, business risk services, technology and security risk services, transaction advisory, and human capital services. Certain member firms also provide legal services.

There are two things clients can count on from the services they receive from Ernst & Young: high professional standards and the ability to deliver on our services effectively.

Ernst & Young would not be a successful organization without great people and strong teamwork. It provides its people with solid career growth opportunities and a people-oriented workplace environment. Simply, its philosophy is that when its people achieve their best, so do the clients, and the business of Ernst & Young prospers.

The core of EY's global service lines offer clients the business services that no organization can do without, whether it's a Global 1000 or an emerging growth company including auditing, accounting advice, tax compliance and planning. The company uses global methodologies and tools to make sure that its professionals communicate effectively, regardless of their location.

Furthermore, Ernst & Young offers more services like advice and assistance in IT security, capital markets advice, tax-effective supply chain planning, compensation design, M&A planning and post-merger integration advice, plus much more. Some are available only to non-audit clients - such as outsourcing internal audit functions - while others are specific to an industry or country.

Whether a company is in banking or chemicals, pharmaceuticals or computer chips, the understanding of specifics in doing business throughout your industry is key to the future. It is more about where the company is heading, rather than where the sector is today.

Team leaders and employees of Ernst & Young have experienced industry people providing services in aerospace and defense, airlines, asset management, automotive, banking & capital markets, biotechnology, chemicals, consumer products, construction, hospitality and leisure, insurance, professional firms and services; provider care; real estate, telecommunications, utilities and many more. We may also offer services for other industries on a country-by-country basis.

For EY, taking an issue-oriented approach means that each employee listens to what clients say about their most pressing challenges like globalization or increased competition, as well as their industry issues including deregulation or fraudulent goods, plus their own operations of reorganization or double taxation. This process allows the company to choose appropriate services to help them meet their objectives of growth, enhanced profitability or even survival.

Behind everything Ernst & Young does, between every service and throughout every industry, it uses its knowledge management capabilities to assure faster, higher quality service delivery. EY is continually developing new ways to capture and deliver insights and ideas. All the professionals in a worldwide organization may use this method, in order to benefit of its clients.

A community of leading knowledge-based organizations dedicated to networking, benchmarking, and sharing best knowledge practices, called the KNOW Network, named Ernst & Young as one of its Most Admired Knowledge Enterprises (MAKE) award winners for the tenth year in a row, and was ranked first in the categories 'Developing Knowledge Workers Through Senior Management Leadership', and 'Delivering Knowledge-Based Products and Services'. Ernst & Young is also a member of the MAKE Hall of Fame.