Transaction Advisory Services - Ernst & Young - Taiwan

The global competitive landscape has shifted and a dynamic group of leading companies are now dominant in rapid-growth markets. Our analysis found that whatever short-term volatility may be ahead for businesses across the world, the longer-range trend is toward a broader geographical distribution of market leading enterprises.

While there is evidence of progress in some areas of working capital, we see significant opportunity for improvement across the entire working capital value chain for the automotive industry. Learn how the industry is overcoming challenges such as intense competition, volatile raw material prices and globalization.

Significant changes face the consumer products industry. Increased competition and consolidation in retail and volatile commodity prices have forced the industry to intensify its focus on cash, cost efficiency and working capital. As these changes sweep the industry, is consumer products prepared to reduce their need for working capital even further?

The US technology industry has experienced rapid evolution in recent years and technology organizations are now more global, portfolio offerings have expanded and operating models are more efficient. Discover how a renewed focus on working capital has been critical to this transformation and how increasingly complex supply chains leave room for further improvement.

Our latest report indicates that while companies in the US and Europe have managed to improve working capital performance, the level of improvement remains marginal. Learn why companies still have over US$1.1 trillion in cash unnecessarily tied up in working capital.

When a business has a highly skilled corporate development officer (CDO) and corporate development team that is committed to continually improving strategy, strong deal value and satisfaction can result. Read our new report to learn more.

Success of acquisitions depends on your company’s ability to extract maximum value from a deal. Effective integration is a key step in that process. Based on insights from post-deal transaction reviews and results from our recent survey of leading corporate development officers, this report highlights winning tactics for successful integrations.

Our fourth Capital Confidence Barometer reports that confidence in the global economy has almost doubled in the last six months. Learn what has caused this surge and how external factors such as political instability in the Middle East, natural disasters and inflation are contributing to longer term uncertainty.