Advisory overview - Ernst & Young - Global

Improve your performance. Manage your risks.

  
Our Ernst & Young Advisory practice uses its sector-focused approach and global delivery capabilities to help manage risk, transform business performance and sustain improvement.

Our global reach
Operating as a single business, we harness the diverse perspectives and experiences of our 20,000 advisory professionals in over 140 countries — one of the broadest global advisory networks of any professional organization — to do so.

How Ernst & Young makes a difference
We mobilize seasoned multi-disciplinary advisory teams to implement our clients' strategies. Our approach is built on one consistent global methodology, a robust knowledge culture and insights from our work around the world.

Planning for growth in business

Now that the global economy has stabilized, how are successful companies planning for growth in the next three years? How can strategic changes made now help companies land on their feet as the global economy begins to right itself? Read our report.

The top 10 risks for business

In today's post-downturn economy, a variety of business risks have emerged -- and some have become more prominent. From the threat of increased regulation to emerging markets to social responsibility and more, our survey of leading industry executives shows which risks you should be prioritizing this year.

The DNA of the CFO

This survey provides insight into what it is to be a CFO today, exploring their expectations and aspirations, and the skills and relationships needed to be successful.

Transforming risks into opportunities

Risk-taking is part of business: no risk, no reward. The challenge in risk management is therefore not to avoid risks, but to gain a competitive edge by transforming them into opportunities. In three reports, we offer insights on how to create and protect value through best practice in risk management.

Do organizations have a plan in place to save today to prosper in the future?

Most companies fail to sustain cost reductions after the economy begins to recover from the downturn that forced those reductions. In this report, we suggest that effective cost reduction should become engrained in the way companies do business. 

The future of Finance

Amid signs of economic recovery, we suggest in The future of Finance (pdf, 248.8kb) that CFOs establish and implement a holistic framework that identifies weaknesses and potential improvements, and which helps enable Finance to be more effective, lower costs and help deliver more value to the bottom line.

 

The future of risk

This new survey of more than 500 global companies provides a snapshot of the current risk environment (pdf, 360.13kb) at a time when mixed reports are filtering through about the medium- and long-term economic outlook. It examines companies' attitudes towards risk management and how recent global events have affected management approaches to risk.