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    • Friday, 26 May, 2023
      EY US reshuffles leadership following failure of spin-off plan

      Regional chair Julie Boland puts loyalists in top posts amid rethink of governance at Big Four firm

    • Saturday, 20 May, 2023
      EY extends tenure of UK boss as top team overhauled

      Hywel Ball will be allowed to work beyond Big Four firm’s mandatory retirement age of 60

    • Thursday, 18 May, 2023
      THG PLC
      Audit matters at THG

      Why EY identified “a potential risk of bias or fraud through management manipulation by manual adjustments”

    • Thursday, 4 May, 2023
      Inside BusinessOlaf Storbeck
      The paradoxical lessons from EY’s punishment over Wirecard

      Regulatory reform of the audit industry is still unfinished business

    • Wednesday, 3 May, 2023
      Behind the Money podcast18 min listen
      How EY’s Project Everest collapsed

      What happened to EY’s grand plan to shake up the accounting industry?

    • Friday, 28 April, 2023
      Business education
      Business school instant case: EY’s failed break-up plan

      A teaching case with questions for students

    • Thursday, 20 April, 2023
      Accountancy
      Watchdog probes EY audit of Made.com

      UK accounting regulator investigates Big Four firm’s 2021 review of failed group’s accounts

    • Monday, 17 April, 2023
      EY to cut 3,000 jobs in US to eliminate ‘overcapacity’

      Move by ‘Big Four’ accounting firm comes just days after collapse of plan to split group up

    • Friday, 14 April, 2023
      Julie Boland: the EY leader in the middle of a ‘civil war’

      US head needs consensus-building skills after scrapping plans for a global split of the accounting firm

    • Thursday, 13 April, 2023
      EY UK warned to expect staff exits and cost cuts after failure of split

      Firm’s partners in Britain told global costs racked up on ‘Project Everest’ had reached $600mn

    • Wednesday, 12 April, 2023
      EY risks paralysis and a power vacuum after break-up failure

      Leaders of Big Four firm’s US arm torpedoed split deal over the Easter weekend

    • Wednesday, 12 April, 2023
      Lex
      EY: embarrassing climbdown calls future strategy into question Premium content

      Global accountancy partnership has returned to base camp — but its ambition was sound

    • Wednesday, 12 April, 2023
      EY’s US firm to embark on $500mn cost savings after scuppering break-up plan

      American partners told retrenchment is part of strategy to simplify business

    • Wednesday, 12 April, 2023
      FT News Briefing podcast10 min listen
      EY: Breaking up is hard to do

      The IMF is forecasting a ‘hard landing’ for the global economy if high inflation continues

    • Wednesday, 12 April, 2023
      Due Diligence
      EY: ‘Project Everest’ proves too high a summit Premium content

      Plus, a tech entrepreneur learns the dangers of talking too much, and Arrival takes Spacs for another spin

    • Tuesday, 11 April, 2023
      EY scraps break-up plan after months of internal dissent

      Split of audit and consulting businesses had faced resistance from some partners

    • Sunday, 9 April, 2023
      EY given more time to resolve issues from exam cheating scandal

      SEC ordered review of why accounting firm failed to disclose staff sharing answers on professional tests

    • Monday, 3 April, 2023
      EY banned by German audit watchdog over Wirecard work

      Big Four firm cannot take on listed companies as new clients for two years

    • Friday, 31 March, 2023
      EY bosses present united front after dispute over stalled break-up plan

      Joint statement claims progress on ‘Project Everest’ after planning for the split was halted this month

    • Friday, 31 March, 2023
      Britishvolt
      Britishvolt deal at risk of collapse over power supply contract

      Deadline for Recharge Industries to finalise purchase of site runs into impasse with EY

    • Friday, 24 March, 2023
      Accounting & Consulting services
      EY global chair says partners have ‘right to vote’ on spin-off plan

      Appeal to partners comes after US boss calls for a pause in push to split the business

    • Thursday, 23 March, 2023
      EY’s US boss warns it is ‘premature’ to say whether break-up plan can be salvaged

      Julie Boland defends decision to pause work on historic split of Big Four firm

    • Wednesday, 22 March, 2023
      Inside BusinessOlaf Storbeck
      EY, KPMG and the fallout of two accounting scandals

      What happens to companies that cannot secure an auditor to check their accounts?

    • Monday, 20 March, 2023
      EY told to give NMC Health administrators notice of break-up votes

      Firm’s UK arm had argued that request to show it can meet potential $2.7bn penalty was ‘unnecessary’

    • Monday, 13 March, 2023
      EY US boss signalled wide-ranging concerns over split

      Julie Boland tells partners there are questions about how to protect the audit business and profit targets for consulting

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