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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Julia Kollewe

EY plans to spin off audit business in shake-up for industry

The logo of EY on the facade of a building in Berlin, Germany, in 2020
EY employs 312,000 people in more than 150 countries. Photograph: Hayoung Jeon/EPA

EY is planning to spin off its audit business, working towards the biggest shake-up of one of the UK’s big four accounting and consultancy firms in decades after a series of high-profile corporate collapses including Carillion and BHS.

Senior partners at the firm – formerly known as Ernst & Young – are drafting plans for a voluntary split of the firm’s advisory and audit divisions, which was first reported by Michael West Media.

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