Topic: Ernst & Young

Ernst & Young Managing Partner Dan Scott has been appointed to lead the Cayman Islands government’s Education Council, replacing the chairmanship formerly held by the education minister.

Government’s attempts to collect two sets of business licensing fees from accountancy firms amounts to unfair double taxation that is not supported by the wording of the legislation, lawyers for five major firms argued in Grand Court Wednesday.

The Ernst & Young report on reducing the size and cost of the Cayman Islands civil service, it seems, was just a fantasy. Project Future – the government’s ongoing reinterpretation of the EY Report – is shaping up to be something else entirely.

BDO Cayman, Deloitte and Touche, Ernst & Young, KPMG and PwC have jointly applied for judicial review of government’s decision to dismiss their appeals that a $2,000 annual fee for every accountant on staff should not be applied to them.

Recommendations from a September 2014 government consultant’s report by the Ernst & Young accounting firm have been pared down to 57 areas which the civil service intends to “progress,” according to a report released last week.

Focusing on exuding professionalism, aptitude and motivation, Year 11 students at John Gray High School recently took part in mock interviews as part of the school’s Career Activities Week. The event was designed to inform students about the prospects available to them in the workforce and what it takes to be competitive in a global marketplace.