The firm of Ernst & Young cel­e­brat­ed its 100th an­niver­sary in T&T at a gala event at the Hy­att Re­gency Trinidad last Thurs­day with its Caribbean ex­ec­u­tive chair­man, Col­in Soo Ping Chow, stat­ing that the val­ues of trust, mu­tu­al re­spect, in­tegri­ty and pro­fes­sion­al ser­vice that were in­cul­cat­ed in the com­pa­ny at its found­ing con­tin­ue to be pro­mot­ed by its part­ners to­day.

The Trinidad firm has its roots with the British firm of Fitz­patrick Gra­ham Green­wood & Com­pa­ny, who first es­tab­lished a branch of­fice in Trinidad in 1911. Evolv­ing from this be­gin­ning, they then reg­is­tered the Part­ner­ship Fitz­patrick, Gra­ham & Com­pa­ny in 1923. Over the years the firm ex­pand­ed. By 1980 the firm was called Pan­nell Kerr Forster. The firm be­gan de­vel­op­ing ties and re­la­tion­ships with oth­er firms in North Amer­i­ca, and in the late 1980s, it then joined with Arthur Young.

"In the Unit­ed States, the firm of Arthur Young was in the process of merg­ing with Ernst & Whin­ney, and there­fore no soon­er did the Trinidad prac­tice be­come Arthur Young, its name was changed to Ernst & Young in 1990."Ernst & Young to­day is a glob­al or­gan­i­sa­tion of 152,000 peo­ple unit­ed by shared val­ues and an un­wa­ver­ing com­mit­ment to qual­i­ty. Ernst & Young is a glob­al leader in as­sur­ance, tax, trans­ac­tion and ad­vi­so­ry ser­vices. In T&T, the firm has ten part­ners and 175 em­ploy­ees. Ernst & Young in the Caribbean re­gion is an in­te­grat­ed prac­tice with of­fices in Trinidad, Bar­ba­dos, Ja­maica, Cu­ra­cao and Aru­ba.