The financial statement audit evolved for your changing business needs—helping you build trust in what matters

Financial statement audit services

Financial statement audit services

Build trust to protect what matters

Trust has never been harder to earn, nor easier to lose. That’s why we’re moving the PwC audit into the future. Bringing together our multidisciplinary capabilities, technical depth, integrity, and objectivity to deliver quality and transparency—building trust that protects what matters.

What we bring to your audit

$3bn

Invested in digital upskilling

$1.5bn

Invested in AI and the latest technology capabilities

2025

Awards for our agentic native audit ecosystem: Brandon Hall Group Technology Excellence—two Gold honors and, International Innovation Award winner

Better. Faster. Smarter

Our audit builds trust in what's gone before and powers what comes next. We raise questions earlier and focus on what matters most using forward-thinking technology—AI, machine learning, and automation—matched to your organisation's digital maturity. Streamlined data collection, testing, and real-time progress updates help reduce your team's administrative burden and give you clearer visibility at every stage. 

As part of your audit, we’ll bring holistic, coordinated perspectives, not just from your audit team, but also from our firm leaders and multidisciplinary specialists —covering sustainability, human capital, cybersecurity, cloud, AI, valuation, and tax. By listening closely to you and your stakeholders, and leveraging detailed analytics and risk assessments, we provide richer audit insights. Our independent teams bring rigour, transparency, and the strength of PwC to every aspect of our work.

Maestro

An AI-native assurance platform, built for quality.

Maestro is our next-generation assurance platform—an AI-native environment that brings together risk assessment, data-driven analysis, and secure communication into a single, integrated experience. Designed around our auditors and built on professional standards and our global methodology, Maestro puts AI and advanced analytics at the core of the audit to enhance our testing and analysis, while keeping auditor judgement central to every engagement.

With Maestro, our teams and yours benefit from:

Maestro supports our auditors in identifying and focusing on the risks that matter most, reinforcing consistency and quality in how we approach audit risk on every engagement.

With AI at its core, Maestro interrogates data more deeply, surfaces anomalies, and sharpens risk assessment—always in support of professional judgement.

By analysing full populations of data, we can focus audit procedures on the areas of greatest risk.

Integrated communication and information sharing keeps your teams and ours connected throughout the audit, wherever you are in the world.

 Secure, real-time monitoring of engagement progress and quality.

One platform used by PwC auditors around the world and governed by rigorous standards for quality and independence.

“Maestro was built from the ground up with a clear ambition: to bring together PwC's audit know-how with the latest technologies to fuel leading-edge audit innovation, leveraging our unique relationships with leading technology companies. The result is a differentiated offering that marks a real step change in audit. I’m excited for our people to bring it to life—and for our clients to experience what it can unlock.”

Mark Flavell

Innovative technology powering PwC’s financial statement audit

Across our global network, these capabilities are enhancing the financial statement audit today. They demonstrate the same drive for innovation and commitment to quality behind Maestro.

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PwC’s Connect

Our collaboration platform provides fast, efficient and secure information sharing at every stage of the audit - creating a better audit experience for clients.

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Real-time communication and coordination 

Connecting your teams and ours, wherever you are in the world with streamlined, standardised communication at every stage of the audit.

  • Secure, web-based information exchange and document management, available 24/7 and scalable for engagements of every size
  • Consolidated notifications that reduce noise and help keep everyone focused on what matters
  • Real-time tracking that supports faster resolution of open items
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PwC’s Extract

Our suite of extraction tools standardises the way we communicate data requests and how we securely extract and transfer your data.

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Efficient data acquisition

A faster, more consistent way to gather the information we need for the audit, with minimal disruption to your systems.

  • A repeatable extraction process designed to fit alongside your day-to-day operations
  • Data encrypted and compressed during extraction and transfer, supporting the protection of your information
  • Standardised data formats ready for use within Maestro
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PwC’s Halo

Award-winning, market-leading technology that harnesses the power of data to help teams see what needs to be seen beyond the numbers on the page.

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Deeper insights from your data

Harnessing the power of data to strengthen our understanding of your business and enhance audit quality.

  • Analysis across full populations of data to support sharper risk assessment and testing
  • Combined trend and ratio analysis drawn from information already provided as part of the audit
  • Visualisations that highlight patterns and potentially higher-risk transactions, supporting more focused audit conversations
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PwC Confirmations

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Streamlined confirmations

Simplifying the confirmation process for your teams and ours through a centralised confirmation platform.

  • Reduced effort and faster turnaround—pre-established connections with thousands of banks, law firms, and companies globally mean confirmations are routed quickly and reliably
  • Responses delivered directly within the platform, with real-time visibility of progress
  • An intuitive, consistent experience supported by the platform's security controls

Award-winning capabilities at the heart of Maestro

PwC is proud that the innovation driving our audit technology has been recognised by leading global awards in 2025.

Brandon hall group - technology excellence award, gold 2025
International innovation awards 2025

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Wes Bricker

Wes Bricker

Global Assurance Leader, PwC US

Tel: +1 202 414 1000

Kazi Islam

Kazi Islam

Global Assurance Strategy and Growth Leader, PwC US

Mark Flavell

Mark Flavell

Leader, Global Next Generation Audit, PwC US

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