Assurance and Advisory

Ernst & Young is the fastest growing firm in the UK for assurance and advisory. Recognising and addressing risks and vulnerabilities that can impact your business and your financial success is a business imperative.

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Audit – Our audit philosophy is to deliver against three basic themes:

1. Relationships: successful audit relationships are built on independence, trust and mutual respect
2. Relevance: the audit needs to be delivered within your business context and have a practical business relevance
3. Technical excellence: we deliver a service grounded in consistent technical excellence.

Business Risk Services – Today’s business environment requires highly qualified assurance functions with the flexibility to address a continuously changing risk profile. Ernst & Young’s business risk services offers a suite of strategic, outsourcing, and industry-focused operational services that help companies around the world evaluate and enhance their business control. Key areas include: financial, operational, process, programme, real estate and corporate responsibility controls.

Corporate Responsibility Services – Corporate responsibility presents a tremendous opportunity for differentiation in an increasingly competitive marketplace – and those companies that understand the importance of being good corporate citizens will be those that reap the earliest rewards. Ernst & Young cover both assurance and advisory services relating to environmental, safety, ethical and social aspects of business performance.

Financial Reporting specialist services – Our teams can help you demystify intricate financial reporting rules. Our expertise is applied to client audit matters and for wider purposes such as: flotations, UK, International and US reporting requirements, authoritative book and electronic publications, PFI deals and litigation support.

Fraud Investigations and Dispute Services – Find out how we ensure a quick and discrete reaction to fraud including investigations, dispute advisory, and transaction dispute advisory.

Pensions Services – We recognise that in today’s market place pension schemes are coming increasingly under the microscope. At Ernst & Young we recognise that these are challenging times for pension schemes and their trustees, which is why our team of pensions assurance specialists are working with many of the country's leading schemes, helping them to recognise and address the risks and vulnerabilities that are unique to running a pension scheme and co-developing innovative solutions to help them minimise the impact of these risks to the business.

Capital Markets – Ernst & Young is a trusted resource for US GAAP technical knowledge and SEC advisory services. Our teams have the know-how, the experience and the track record to support foreign registrants with their US financial reporting.