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Ernst & Young's Global Review looks back at our performance during the year and shows why delivering on our promise — of seamless, consistent, high-quality client service, worldwide — matters. When we deliver on our promise we develop people, serve companies and strengthen communities.

In the spotlight:

2008 Ernst & Young Shipping Industry Forum: 28-29 May 2008-Athens, Greece

This year's Ernst & Young's Shipping Forum will be held at the Hotel Grande Bretagne in Athens on 28-29 May 2008. Scheduled right before Posidonia, this third annual Shipping industry Forum promises to be the most exciting one yet focusing on audit and international tax issues as well as related planning opportunities and strategies. If you would like to attend this event, please contact Fani Klironomou via telephone (+30 210 2886213), fax (+30 210 2886907) or email (EYShipping.Group@ey.com).

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New Program by ALBA Graduate Business School in collaboration with Ernst & Young

ALBA Graduate Business School and Ernst & Young launched their joint "ALBA - ERNST & YOUNG Postgraduate Professional Diploma in Taxation”. This is highly specialised Program, which begun in October 2007, has a duration of 9 months, with approximately 400 teaching hours.

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Attractiveness of Southeast Europe 2007

The quality and availability of R&D, the infrastructures in telecommunications, in transports and in logistics, could establish Greece as a regional hub, according to the Attractiveness of Southeast Europe 2007 survey, carried out by Ernst & Young (, 724 kb).

Also see:

European Attractiveness Survey 2006

Will India be the next Eldorado? When will the Russian economy end its transition period? Are we seeing a rebirth of the Japanese model? At what pace will Europe be able to integrate the reforms necessary to maintain its place amongst the major world economies? The answers to these questions form the core of the European Attractiveness Survey 2006 (, 3269 kb).

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Doing Business in Southeast Europe

The 2005 edition of Ernst & Young’s Doing Business in Southeast Europe is a publication that gives the busy executive a quick overview of the investment climate, taxation, forms of business organization, and business and accounting practices in the following countries of the region: Albania, Bulgaria, Cyprus, F.Y.R. of Macedonia, Greece, Malta, Moldova, Romania, Serbia & Montenegro and Turkey (, 2067 kb).

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Observations on the Implementation of IFRS

While International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) have been implemented successfully by more than 8000 listed companies in the European Union, there is still a long way to go to achieve consistency and comparability in all aspects of financial reporting, according to Ernst & Young’s Observations on the Implementation of IFRS report (, 708 kb).

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Newsletters:

Greek Newsletter

The February 2007 issue of the Greek Newsletter, provides information about the latest developments in the field of commercial, accounting, tax, insurance, and labor legislation in Greece, as well as Ernst & Young's advice on these areas (, 770 kb).

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Global EYe on IFRS

The January 2007 issue of Global EYe on IFRS includes: an article overviewing the IASB’s and the FASB’s joint project to converge their respective conceptual frameworks into a single framework; some of the key proposals made to date with Ernst & Young’s views on these; a technical look at various approaches to accounting for puts and forwards held by minority interests in the light of the IFRIC’s decisions about this at its November 2006 meeting; an interview with Jane Diplock, the chair of the Executive Committee of the International Organisation of Securities Commissions (IOSCO).(, 667 kb).