About PwC
PwC provides industry-focused assurance, tax and advisory services, building public trust and enhancing value for our clients and their stakeholders.Our firm has a longstanding history of delivering exceptional services to our clients and providing an incomparable professional experience for our people. Today, the PwC global network of firms is made up of over 163,000 partners and staff operating in 151 countries across the world. The US firm alone, the focus of this report, comprises more than 30,000 of these diverse, vibrant, and talented individuals working from nearly 80 offices across the United States. References in this report to our firm refer to the US firm, PwC.
Our firm continues to focus on our proven long-term strategy: to excel in the marketplace by delivering a distinctive PwC experience to our clients and our people.
Services
Our people work closely with clients to deliver sustainable solutions tailored to the unique needs of the diverse industry sectors that we serve. We combine our unique perspectives, skills, and backgrounds to create innovative solutions to today’s business challenges. Our industry-focused professionals in the fields of assurance, tax, human resources, transactions, performance improvement and crisis management help to resolve complex client and stakeholder issues. We also bring our experience and talents to help educational institutions, the federal government, non-profits, and international relief agencies address their unique business issues.
A number of our services provide innovative solutions to help clients build a more sustainable business and focus directly on our four Corporate Responsibility areas:
Marketplace
- Anti-corruption and corporate bribery consulting
- Corporate governance and reputation risk
- Environmental health and safety risk assessment
- Privacy program development
- Stakeholder management
- Supply chain management and assessment
- Change management
- Diversity training and policy development
- Health and welfare benefit plan consulting
- HR strategy and effectiveness
- Learning and capabilities
- Satisfaction survey development
- Talent management and development
- Higher education and charter school audit and tax consulting
- Foundation and non-profit organization audit and tax consulting
- Organizational structure and accountability
- Emerging leading practices for non-profit audit committees
- Sustainability strategy formulation, reporting and assurance
- Alternative energy tax incentives
- Carbon measurement and supply chain management
- Climate change risk management
- Green IT
- Greenhouse Gas data management, reporting and verification
Our structure
Our firm is a member of PwC’s global network of firms connected through membership in PricewaterhouseCoopers International Limited, or PwCIL. Through membership in PwCIL, separate independent firms from various territories come together to form the PwC global network. The network is organized into three clusters with each having a lead territory. The clusters are the East (generally Asia-Pacific), the Central (generally Europe, the Middle East, and Southern Africa), and the West (generally the Americas). The lead territories are PwC China, PwC UK, and PwC US, respectively. By working together, the network member firms create a depth and breadth of resources that our people can tap into in order to better serve our clients.
Our firm has a board of partners and principals that is the firm’s highest body. The board is responsible for approving the overall strategic direction of the firm and has the ability to:
- Approve long-range strategies and business plans;
- Approve major financial commitments and other major transactions that could significantly affect the scope or expansion of the firm’s practice;
- Make decisions regarding the firm’s capital and the manner in which the partners participate in firm profits;
- Approve nominations submitted by the Senior Partner Nominating Committee for Senior Partner candidates;
- Consider the admission and withdrawal of partners and principals; and
- Approve the compensation of the Senior Partner and members of the Leadership Team as a group, after a review and recommendation by a committee of the Board.
Beyond our governance structure, our firm is organized around our services, industries and geographies. Nationally, we have partners who lead our sector concentrations and our three lines of service for Assurance, Tax and Advisory. At the local level—where we most directly impact our people and our clients—we are organized into 20 strategic markets, each of which is led by a Market Managing Partner (MMP).
