Company Information Flashcards

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What is EY’s purpose?

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Building a better working world for our people, clients and communities

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How is EY capable of fulfilling its purpose?

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By developing outstanding leaders who team to deliver on our promises to all our stakeholders

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What are examples of what EY does?

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We help digital pioneers fight data piracy; guide governments through cash-flow crises; unlock new medical treatments with data analytics; and pursue high quality audits to build trust in financial markets and business. In other words, working with entrepreneurs, companies, and entire countries to solve their most pressing challenges.

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What are their 4 service lines?

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Assurance, Consulting, Strategy and Transactions, and Tax

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What do they do with those 4 service lines?

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Through deep knowledge, we help our clients to capitalize on new opportunities and assess and manage risk to deliver responsible growth

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What do the teams help clients with?

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The high-performing, multidisciplinary teams help them fulfill regulatory requirements, keep investors informed and meet stakeholder needs

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What does EY believe in?

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That a better working world is one where economic growth is sustainable and inclusive. We work continuously to improve the quality of all our services, investing in our people and innovation. And we’re proud to work with others – from our clients to wider stakeholders – to use our knowledge, skills and experience to help fulfill our purpose and create positive change.

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What else do they believe in?

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Diversity and inclusiveness means growth

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How many people work at EY?

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Over 300000

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What does EY wants for its employees?

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At EY, we empower our people with the right mindsets and skills to navigate what’s next, become the transformative leaders the world needs, pursue careers as unique as they are, and build their own exceptional EY experiences.

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Our values: people with/who

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  • Demonstrate integrity, respect, teaming and inclusiveness
  • Energy, enthusiasm and the courage to lead
  • Build relationships based on doing the right thing
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CEO’s commitment

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We believe our focus on creating, protecting and measuring long-term value has been critical to purposeful growth, with Building a better working world as our guide. It is through this lens that we conduct audits, provide results, reshape strategy, enable innovation and transformation, and help companies address tax and regulatory requirements. It keeps us focused on developing the services and solutions that help clients deliver better outcomes for their stakeholders; investing in EY people in ways that help them acquire new skills; and giving back to the communities in which we live and work. It keeps us aligned and focused on our stakeholders’ needs during these challenging times, and beyond.

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Holding ourselves accountable

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As we make long-term commitments – achieving net zero carbon emissions, increasing diversity, equity and inclusiveness in the workforce, and contributing to prosperity in the communities we operate in – measuring improvement and action plan results to achieve these commitments is critical. Only by measuring can we benchmark progress, improve decision-making and accountability, and increase trust.

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Who is the CEO of EY?

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Carmine Di Sibio

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What are EY’s services?

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Consulting, People and workforce, transactions and corporate finance, assurance, tax, law, technology, managed services (finance, risk, legal, explore), EY private (audit, tax, family enterprise, IPO, entrepreneurship, start-ups), EY sustainability (technology transformation, tax function operations, climate change and sustainability services, EY ecosystems, business transformation platform, strategy transaction and transformation consulting), strategy by EY Parthenon

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What does people and workforce consist of?

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  • change management and experience
  • hr transformation
  • integrated workforce mobility
  • learning and development consulting
  • recognition and reward advisory
  • workforce analytics
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Why are diverse opinions important?

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Diverse opinions and skills lead to the best answers for our clients and our organization. We don’t get those diverse opinions and skills by bringing together people who look, think and act the same way, or who’ve had similar life experiences. We’re committed to building the highest-performing teams through the power of diversity and to providing equitable growth opportunities to our people around the world.”

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What is inclusiveness about?

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Inclusiveness is about leveraging these differences to achieve better business outcomes. It is about creating an environment where EY people feel and are valued – where they feel they belong and contribute their personal best in every encounter.

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What is diversity about?

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Diversity is about differences. At EY, we think broadly about differences, which include nationality, background, education, gender, ethnicity, generation, age, working and thinking styles, religious background, sexual orientation, abilities, experiences, and technical skills. There are also differences according to geography, service line, sector and function.

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Why is DEI important?

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Diverse perspectives, combined with an inclusive culture and equitable opportunities, drive better decision-making, stimulate innovation, increase organizational agility and strengthen resilience to disruption.

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DEI maximizes power of all

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differences and realize the full potential of all their employees. This minimizes blind spots, and encourages truly innovative thinking, which is critical to help organizations deliver long-term value in today’s global marketplace.

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What is social equity?

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Social equity means that each person at EY has access to the resources and opportunities they need, given different starting points and different needs. It also means removing barriers to opportunities and inclusive experiences that may lead to unequal outcomes.

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CSR pillars EY (and cleints)

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Together with clients and other like-minded organizations, EY people use their distinctive skills, knowledge and experience to bring positive change across three focus areas: supporting the next generation workforce, working with impact entrepreneurs and accelerating environmental sustainability. These are the areas where we believe our combined capabilities can make the biggest impact — where each ripple we start has the potential to grow and join with others to create waves of change.

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Supporting the next generation workforce

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The world needs critical thinkers and creative problem-solvers, ready to collaborate on solving society’s toughest challenges. As a world-renowned developer of talent, the EY organization extends its knowledge to help young people and underserved groups build the mindsets and skills needed to succeed in an era of unprecedented change.

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Working with impact entrepreneurs
The world needs business model innovation that prioritizes social justice, economic inclusion and environmental regeneration. This is where impact enterprises already live. EY people extend their professional services skills and experience to help these enterprises achieve true scale and significance (transform, velocity)
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Accelerating environmental sustainability
The world needs urgent action to address the climate emergency. As a leading provider of climate change and sustainability services, the EY organization extends the value of its knowledge and experience to help accelerate adoption of new models, technologies and behaviors that protect and regenerate the environment.
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What is the difference between EY and EY Parthenon?
Whether it’s digital transformation, sector convergence and dislocation, or financial and operational complexities, EY-Parthenon teams bring data analytics, leading technology and digital capabilities to a CEO's toughest strategic issues. In doing so, EY-Parthenon teams can move quickly from idea to implementation to help clients realize their strategy with speed and certainty; we call this Strategy Realized. EY-Parthenon teams apply a variety of lenses and tech tools to find broad strategic solutions across strategy and execution to help CEOs and their teams manage complex ecosystems and realize their bold ambitions. Strategy consulting, corporate and growth strategy, restructuring and turnaround strategy, digital strategy, commercial strategy and transacton strategy and execution EY, formerly known as Ernst & Young, is one of the "Big Four" accounting firms, providing audit, tax, consulting, and advisory services to clients worldwide.