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An overview of PwC global news:

Australia

Consultancies continue to top wish-lists of Australian graduates Despite a recent spate of bad press, Australia’s biggest consulting firms continue to be the country’s most sought after employers among graduates.
12 April 2024
United Kingdom

Eight-in-ten UK executives plan price hikes before 2026 The number of firms expecting to drive up their pricing is expected to rise, in response to volatile energy prices.
04 April 2024
United Kingdom

PwC considers first woman for UK CEO role As PwC’s UK CEO Kevin Ellis prepares to step down, the race to replace him is heating up.
03 April 2024
Australia

PwC to cut further staff and partners amid Australian restructure Professional services firm PwC is further restructuring its operations in the wake of its government tax scandal, with another 329 employees to lose their jobs along with 37 partner exits.
31 March 2024
United Kingdom

Job cuts loom for across Big Four following 'over-hiring' As Deloitte commences a landmark restructuring of its operations, amid a consulting market slowdown, employees are reportedly weighing up their other options.
28 March 2024
Germany

PwC and Strategy& supporting thyssenkrupp hydrogen program Consulting firm PwC and its strategy subsidiary Strategy& are part of a major new decarbonization initiative from thyssenkrupp Steel.
27 March 2024
Australia

PwC appoints HR veteran Karen Lonergan as people chief HR veteran Karen Lonergan has been appointed as PwC’s next Chief People Officer as the scandal-hit firm tries to rebuild its reputation, bringing experience from some of the country’s biggest companies
22 March 2024
Australia

PwC explores sale of stake in Indigenous consulting business PwC has reportedly floated its minority stake in PwC’s Indigenous Consulting out to potential buyers, with the firm’s public sector freeze causing problems for the First Nations practice.
20 March 2024
United Kingdom

Sarah O'Toole joins PwC UK as a partner PwC UK has enhanced its restructuring and insolvency team with the hire of Sarah O’Toole. Joining as a partner, she will operate from the firm’s Manchester office.
14 March 2024
United Kingdom

PwC set to return as Sainsbury's auditor Reports in the British press suggest supermarket giant Sainsbury’s is set to re-appoint PwC as its auditor. The move would come a decade after the firm was replaced in the role by Big Four rival EY.
13 March 2024
United Kingdom

Spring statement does little to excite UK consultants What is expected to be the last budget before the 2024 general election has been dominated by discussions around the impact of tax cuts on small businesses and individuals.
12 March 2024
United Kingdom

UK consulting firms great and small lauded in national ranking The Financial Times has released the 2024 edition of its UK’s Leading Management Consultants ranking.
07 March 2024
United Kingdom

How chartered status can be a 'unifying voice' for UK consulting Since the launch of the Chartered Management Consultant award, many of the industry’s leading firms have signed up to help their professionals through the process.
07 March 2024
Australia

PwC installs Ro Antao as new leader of consulting business Big Four firm PwC has appointed Rohit (Ro) Antao as its new Consulting leader for Australia.
26 February 2024
United Kingdom

PwC UK launches UK tax AI assistant tool Professional services firm PwC has rolled out a new AI tool to assist its UK tax wing with its work for clients.
20 February 2024
United Kingdom

UK M&A activity in 2023 falls by almost a fifth The UK’s merger and acquisition activity plummeted over 2023, sinking to its lowest rate since the start of the pandemic.
16 February 2024
Australia

SAP unveils its top external partners in ANZ for 2024 SAP has announced the winners of its Australia and New Zealand Partner Excellence Awards for 2024, celebrating the achievements of its leading partners over the last year.
09 February 2024
Australia

Luke Sayers faces heat over PwC ‘whistleblower’ complaint Former PwC boss Luke Sayers has been arguably the star attraction of the endless Senate inquiries into the consulting sector, bringing a certain impish charm to proceedings while his contemporaries w
09 February 2024
United Kingdom

PwC and Quantexa partner to provide tech-solutions The UK wing of PwC has announced a new partnership with Quantexa, to give its clients the ability to understand and visualise their complex data.
31 January 2024
Australia

PwC called in for Godfreys and Melbourne Rebels administrations Facing separate but challenging market forces, rugby union club the Melbourne Rebels and vacuum cleaning retailer Godreys have both entered voluntary administration, with PwC called in on both.
30 January 2024
Australia

PwC appoints Thomas Bowden as chief transformation officer Former Canberra managing partner Thomas Bowden has been appointed as PwC’s next chief transformation officer, with oversight for the firm’s large-scale reforms in Australia.
24 January 2024
Europe

Investors suspicious of greenwashing in CSR reports A remarkable 94% of investors distrust sustainability reports created by corporations, with this huge majority suspecting the reports of touting unsupported claims, a practice known as ‘greenwashing’
24 January 2024
Canada

PwC Canada acquires property tax consultancy Equitable Value PwC Canada has acquired Equitable Value Inc., a Toronto-based property tax and valuation consulting firm.
24 January 2024
United Kingdom

Value of the 100 biggest unicorns falls by $10 billion A new study from PwC suggest that the 100 most prominent unicorns in global business attracted $10 billion less from investors in 2023 than the last year.
22 December 2023
Australia

Most Australians don’t know or care about Big Four consultants A new survey has found that half of Australian voters believe the government should reduce its consulting spend on the Big Four. More intriguingly, more than a third don’t know who they are.
21 December 2023
United Kingdom

Half of UK organisations using transactions to keep up with change The UK M&A market looks set to pick up in 2024, with firms increasingly looking beyond organic growth to transform their operations.
14 December 2023
United Kingdom

UK’s largest listed companies contribute £90 billion in taxes A new study suggests that the UK’s largest listed companies contributed nearly £90 billion in taxes in the last financial year.
12 December 2023
Australia

KPMG and PwC welcome new chief executives in New Zealand The Big Four in New Zealand is in a period of transition, with Jason Doherty this month becoming CEO of KPMG and Andrew Holmes set to take over at PwC, both replacing seven-year incumbents.
05 December 2023
Australia

PwC’s Julie McKay among global top ten for diversity & inclusion Online specialist publication Sustainability Magazine has selected PwC Australia’s Julie McKay as one of the world’s leading figures for diversity & inclusion alongside nine of her global peers.
30 November 2023
United Kingdom

Consultancies warn autumn budget shortchanges SMEs While some leading consulting firms issued statements praising the implementation of new tax incentives for the mid-market, many more warned the measures did not go far enough.
28 November 2023
Australia

Big Four chiefs: Janet Truncale (EY) and Mohamed Kande (PwC) Big Four accounting and consulting firms Ernst & Young and PwC await new, culturally diverse global leaders, but both incoming chiefs face other internal culture challenges, especially in Australia.
22 November 2023
Asia

Agri-food sector in Asia can cut carbon emissions by 12% The Asian agri-food sector is a huge source of carbon emissions – but it has the potential to cut down emissions by 12% by 2030, which would be equivalent to the total amount of emissions from the en
21 November 2023

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