Ernst Young

When I came to Washington for my first real job, I had no political affiliation. I didn't even know my member of Congress. I was more interested in business than government. But during my time at Ernst & Young as I began to see how the tax laws were applied in business, I started thinking about what the laws should be. A few years into the job, someone approached me about a tax counsel position in Sen. John C. Danforth's office. I interviewed thinking I wouldn't get the job, but I did. I became...

From my first job until today, I have always helped out with entrepreneurial growth opportunities. My father helped build GNC from three stores to 3,000 and was a chief executive. He had a tremendously positive impact on me. I always wanted to be like him. He could put deals together in his head. He really set a standard for me. I had a belief that with hard work and dedication, you can do great things in your life. I got my start in public accounting with Ernst & Young. I wasn't sure what I wanted to do with...

Company: Ernst & Young. Location : Offices in McLean and the District. Employees: about 1,700 locally; 167,000 worldwide. Last summer, Barbara Jackson's employer paid for her and nine colleagues to travel to a remote area near Guaraqueçaba, Brazil. The team worked to assess the extent of an erosion problem in the region, so they spent their days tracking the sounds and footprints of wildlife in the Atlantic Forest and measuring the height and density of its trees.

Company: Ernst & Young. Location : Offices in McLean and the District. Employees: about 1,700 locally; 167,000 worldwide. Last summer, Barbara Jackson's employer paid for her and nine colleagues to travel to a remote area near Guaraqueçaba, Brazil. The team worked to assess the extent of an erosion problem in the region, so they spent their days tracking the sounds and footprints of wildlife in the Atlantic Forest and measuring the height and density of its trees.

For the fifth year in a row, an army of Ernst & Young employees put aside meetings with clients to pick up trash, harvest a farm, teach elementary school students and lay mulch during the company's annual day of service. Nearly 600 employees from the company's local offices participated in community outreach projects in 11 locations around the Washington region. "I came home exhausted and filthy," said Kevin Virostek, Ernst & Young's Greater Washington managing partner. "But I never had a better...

NEWTOWN, Conn. — Adam Lanza lived among guns. His mother, Nancy, collected them. She showed them off to her landscaper. "Guns were her hobby," said Dan Holmes, the landscaper of Nancy Lanza's sprawling yard here on the edge of town. "She told me she liked the single-mindedness of shooting. " Holmes said she even spoke of taking her son to the firing range to practice his aim. As details of her son's troubled life trickled out Saturday, the day after he ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — A retired Ernst & Young executive is the new chief operating officer and executive vice president of the University of Virginia. The university's Board of Visitors unanimously approved Patrick Hogan's appointment Friday. Hogan succeeds Michael Strine, who resigned in August in the wake of a failed attempt by some board members to oust university President Teresa Sullivan. Hogan is a retired deputy global managing partner with Ernst & Young, one of the world's...

How federal agencies rank among college students' ideal employers: 1. Google 2. Walt Disney 3. Apple Computer 4. Ernst & Young 5. Department of State 6. Goldman Sachs 7. Deloitte 8. Peace Corps 9. NASA 10. PricewaterhouseCoopers 11. Teach for America 12. CIA 13. Microsoft 14. FBI 15. J.P. Morgan Source: The Universum IDEAL(TM) Employer Survey 2008, Undergraduate Edition

It's fairly ironic to learn that there was still a lawsuit lingering over Time Warner's merger with America Online from the beginning of this decade, given that AOL is in the process of spinning off and hitting the public markets as an independent entity before year's end. Anyway, there was still one pending suit out of the hundreds that were filed after the multi-billion dollar merger, and now it has been dismissed as well. The end of an era, of sorts. A federal judge has thrown out the last of the...

Thomas V. Fritz, 75, a retired managing director of the financial services firm Ernst & Young and chairman of the board of Innovative Systems, died Jan. 25 in an auto accident while visiting Argentina on a charitable mission. A McLean resident, he also was president of Thomas V. Fritz & Associates, a consulting firm focusing on productivity and financial strategies for business. According to his daughter, Juliann W. Fritz of Park City, Utah, Mr. Fritz and two other retired executives from Ernst & Young,...

NEWTOWN, Conn. — Adam Lanza lived among guns. His mother, Nancy, collected them. She showed them off to her landscaper. "Guns were her hobby," said Dan Holmes, the landscaper of Nancy Lanza's sprawling yard here on the edge of town. "She told me she liked the single-mindedness of shooting. " Holmes said she even spoke of taking her son to the firing range to practice his aim. As details of her son's troubled life trickled out Saturday, the day after he gunned down 20...

The art of fact-checking took a beating in columnist Glenn Kess- ler's review [" Would more taxes on the wealthy mean fewer jobs? ," Fact Checker, Nov. 18] of our rigorous Ernst & Young study analyzing the long-term economic effects of higher marginal tax rates on jobs and investment. As a start, the column repeated previous criticisms made by the White House and responded to by us, including the purely ad hominem attack that, since the study was sponsored by the National Federation of Independent...

They are geeks by day and models by night — or at least for one night. Members of the local tech community recently strolled down a Bloomingdale's runway to raise money for youth entrepreneurship education. The third floor of the department store in Chevy Chase was filled with 250 dolled-up young professionals who surrounded the stage to snap pictures of their catwalking co-workers from Twitter or Facebook. The third annual Geek 2 Chic event for the Washington region was created from a national partnership between...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — A retired Ernst & Young executive is the new chief operating officer and executive vice president of the University of Virginia. The university's Board of Visitors unanimously approved Patrick Hogan's appointment Friday. Hogan succeeds Michael Strine, who resigned in August in the wake of a failed attempt by some board members to oust university President Teresa Sullivan. Hogan is a retired deputy global managing partner with Ernst & Young, one of the world's largest accounting firms.

When I came to Washington for my first real job, I had no political affiliation. I didn't even know my member of Congress. I was more interested in business than government. But during my time at Ernst & Young as I began to see how the tax laws were applied in business, I started thinking about what the laws should be. A few years into the job, someone approached me about a tax counsel position in Sen. John C. Danforth's office. I interviewed thinking I wouldn't get the job, but I did. I became...

Ernst & Young has named former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Mark Weinberger as its next chairman and chief executive, replacing Jim Turley when he retires from the global audit and consulting firm in June 2013. Weinberger, 50, currently sits on the company's global executive board, the firm's highest governing body, and heads its global tax practice. He co-founded District-based Washington Counsel, a tax lobbying firm that was bought by Ernst & Young in 2000. Weinberger will step into his new role with extensive public...

While the pinstripe crowd fixates on troubled assets, a stalled stimulus and mortgage remedies, it turns out that a more sure-fire financial fix is within our grasp -- and has been for years. New research says a healthy dose of estrogen may be the key not only to our fiscal recovery, but also to economic strength worldwide. The sexy new discussion in policy circles around the world, thanks to the recession, is whether a significant shift of power from men to women is underway -- or whether it should be. Accounting giant Ernst & Young...

From my first job until today, I have always helped out with entrepreneurial growth opportunities. My father helped build GNC from three stores to 3,000 and was a chief executive. He had a tremendously positive impact on me. I always wanted to be like him. He could put deals together in his head. He really set a standard for me. I had a belief that with hard work and dedication, you can do great things in your life. I got my start in public accounting with Ernst & Young. I wasn't...

For the fifth year in a row, an army of Ernst & Young employees put aside meetings with clients to pick up trash, harvest a farm, teach elementary school students and lay mulch during the company's annual day of service. Nearly 600 employees from the company's local offices participated in community outreach projects in 11 locations around the Washington region. "I came home exhausted and filthy," said Kevin Virostek, Ernst & Young's Greater Washington managing partner. "But I never had a better...

Commercial real estate broker and philanthropist Ryan Rauner, 29, said he believes people in his age group have a responsibility to contribute to the community. So outside of work, he makes it his mission to turn young professionals into givers and dispel the stereotype that philanthropists are only wealthy and elderly. "Young people want to give back," said Rauner. "You just have to get them in the door. " Rauner's entryway is the Northern Virginia Community Foundation's Future Fund, a new...