“At EY, we are committed to building a better working world – one with increased trust and confidence in business, sustainable growth, development of talent in all its forms, and greater collaboration” . This mindset has made EY the world leader in providing services in assurance, tax, transaction and advisory.
While delivering their services, EY strongly follows the philosophy of building a better working world for their people, their clients and for their communities. By doing so, EY helps delivering and building trust and confidence in the capital markets in economies all over the world. They develop outstanding leaders who team to deliver on their promise to all their stakeholders.
In order to understand how such a globally aware company came to be, we shall
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Early and Recent History
The organisation dates back to 1849, when Harding & Pullein was founded in England. In that same year, Frederick Whinney joined the firm and was quickly made a partner in 1859. Under the tenure of his sons, the company was renamed Whinney, Smith & Whinney in 1894.
A couple of years later, in 1903, an accountancy company named Ernst & Ernst was established by Alwin C. Ernst. At the same time another firm was established by Arthur Young, called Young & Co. As early as 1924, these American companies allied with prominent British firms, Young forming a partnership with Broads Paterson & Co and Ernst — with Whinney, Smith & Whinney. As a result, the two leading companies in the world of accounting: Earnst & Whineey and Arthur Young & Co, were formed.
Today’s EY is a result of a series of mergers of ancestor organisations, the most important merge surely being the one of the two companies mentioned above. While interacting on a global basis, they named themselves Ernst & Young. Further changes occurred in 2013, when Ernst & Young underwent a rebranding to the name
Waking up in the morning, going to sleep at night, and doing what one loves in between, is what success means. That, to me, encompasses being able to help people and possibly save lives as a career. There is a nobility in succeeding in certain areas one cares deeply about. Having the ability and capability to protect and serve is a strong desire within me. Developing my education, in order to further my success something that I perceive as a crucial aspect of being able to do what I love. Attending Endicott is the first step in this journey of mine.
The company’s moto is ‘Building A Better Working World’ (Ernst & Young LLP). This is our motivation — and why we exist as an
1. Albert Einstein said, “Learning is not a product of schooling but the lifelong attempt to acquire it.”
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Barnes & Noble does business -- big business -- by the book. As the #1 bookseller in the US, it operates about 650 superstores throughout 49 states and the District of Columbia under the banners Barnes & Noble, Bookstop, and Bookstar, as well as about 200 mall stores using the names B. Dalton, Doubleday, and Scribner's. The company's GameStop subsidiary is the #1 US video game retailer with about 1,500 stores under the names Babbage's Etc., GameStop, and FuncoLand. Barnes & Noble owned about 75% of online book seller barnesandnoble.com after purchasing Bertelsmann's interest in 2003; Barnes & Noble then purchased all remaining shares and took the company private in May 2004.
Aflac (American Family Life Assurance Company) was founded in 1995 by John, Paul and Bill Amos in a small six-room complex in downtown Columbus Georgia with just 16 employees and 60 agents.
Both of these companies were successful, are still around today, and widely known around the globe.
Edward Jones provides financial services for individual investors in the United States and through its affiliate in Canada. Every part of the firm 's business, from the types of investment options offered to the location of branch offices, is designed to cater to individual investors in the communities in which they live and work. Edward Jones practices job enrichment which means giving employees higher level of responsibility and skill. It is very family orientated. They help employees with their careers and that understands not all careers and built the same. They have a purpose and a mission everyone must abide by.
Challenge of Globalization W. L. GORE & ASSOCIATE had been expending their business in more than 30 over country; there are Asia Pacific, Europe and the Middle East, Central America, North America and South America, leading manufacturer of thousands of advanced technology products for the electronics, industrial, fabrics and medical markets. With the employees of 9.500 people around the world, managing the people also bring along the trouble as well. With the diversity of culture, people, background, language and norms, challenges and problems occur within the company and beyond the boundaries of the company. This is the major problems that will occur when a company goes global and expanding to the world. This challenge of globalization
EDS acquired “one of the world’s largest and most respected global management consulting firms” (pg 524). This is on A.T. Kearney’s website “ A.T. Kearney is a global team of forward-thinking, collaborative partners that delivers immediate, meaningful results and a long-term transformational advantage to our clients and colleagues. Since 1926, we have been trusted advisors on CEO-agenda issues to the world’s leading organizations across all major industries and sectors.” http://www.atkearney.com. It would be an epic failure for both companies if EDS and A. T. Kearney could not make this merger work.
E. F Hutton as a broker and assistant manager, but when that firm merged with Shearson-
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Well known companies like Nike, Microsoft, Sony, Shell Group are just some of the big companies that went global and expanded their trading around the world, they are large businesses that operate internationally in many countries. Development of worldwide integration urges companies to reach out international markets and interact with foreign customers. Businesses focus on fulfilling the demand of the market by its products or services, besides their target is increasing profit, in order achieve these goals they favor to expand their work in a foreign market. Other reasons to internationalize their business may be to become
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