Financing and strategy

We support businesses to optimise the structure of their finance functions to improve their contribution to the business. We structure our support to ensure that finance addresses the challenges of achieving appropriate standards of control, efficient back office opportunities and support to the business through insight and challenge.

We can also provide businesses with industry and technical knowledge, supported by rigorous market, economic and financial analysis, to enable you to deliver the best results for your business in the areas of business unit strategy, transaction services, valuation, economics, brand/intellectual property management and risk management.

We deliver our services locally and through our integrated network of more than 1,300 strategy, valuation, economics and transaction specialists in 30 countries across the globe. Our clients include market leading companies, private equity and venture capital houses, the public sector and law firms.

Our services include the following:

Business modelling

Whether in the process of investing into a new project, reviewing your existing investments or simply starting a new business we can work with you to understand and analyse a business’s key commercial and financial drivers and then design, build and review financial/business models to help you understand the impact of different financial or commercial assumptions on their cash position, profit, tax or financing structure.

We bring an independent perspective giving you a more insightful understanding of the impact of different financial, operational and commercial assumptions on your profit, tax or financing position.

Our model review help our clients make their investment decision with confidence.

Economics and market research

PwC can help you obtain a better understanding on a specific target market or on those you already have a presence in and use this information to devise a strategy to improve both business efficiencies and performance. Our approach can be applied to both local or wider global markets and can focus on short to long term objectives.

Revenue growth

PwC can partnership with you to review and assess your business development strategy and highlight areas where there is little projected growth and outline those other areas where there is a greater potential for growth and map this with market indicators. We can also help you review other options for growth such as the acquisition of target businesses.

Cost reduction


PwC has identified a bank of over 100 cost reduction initiatives and techniques. These provide clients with a number of suggestions that contribute to making effective decisions
about cost reductions. The following is a small sample of ideas that might be appropriate to your organisation:

  1. Analyse all strategic investments and joint ventures: Make a decision about the inherent value they generate versus the costs of managing.
  2. Identify unprofitable or marginally profitable products in a portfolio: Make a decision about divesting or accelerating profitable growth through acquisition.
  3. Review your management structures and client coverage models with a view to reducing duplication.
  4. Analyse the most profitable customers in each portfolio: Make a decision about the cost of focusing your marketing spend on directly targeting them.
  5. Overhaul incentive compensation structures to better link pay with business performance.
  6. Conduct a strategic review of all suppliers. Opportunities for contract renegotiations and appropriate use of substitutes will be possible.
  7. Analyse the supply chain. Focus on optimising spend on both inbound and outbound.
  8. Review the appropriateness and effectiveness of the administrative, operations and technology functions.
  9. Review the merits of insourcing versus outsourcing with a goal of identifying the best options for the long-term health of the business.
  10. Significant opportunities for cost cutting will probably lie in areas including legal, tax structuring, corporate real estate, travel and entertainment.

This is just an initial sample of suggestions for how PwC can help you cut costs in your organisation. We welcome the opportunity to talk through our other 90-plus suggestions in much greater depth with you.

Raising finance

PwC's award winning corporate finance practice provides independent financial advice to companies, institutional investors and governments seeking to buy or sell businesses, raise new finance or improve the efficiency of the funding in their balance sheets.

Our culture is significantly influenced by the heritage of the firm and, as such, we focus on building long client relationships rather than closing a deal whether or not it is in the best interest of our client. We are independent to the source of capital and so we differentiate ourselves through intellectual not finance capital. These factors, together with our deep sector knowledge and international network, combine to make great deals better.