The financial statement audit evolved for your changing business needs—helping you build trust in what matters
Financial Statement Audit services
Experience beyond numbers
The PwC audit revolves around you—anticipating the complex issues that matter most to your business.
As industry specialists, we bring your full business into view, making meaningful connections and sharing insights so you can move forward with clarity and confidence.
At PwC, we embrace change and continuously evolve to stay ahead and deliver exceptional client experiences. Our commitment to quality is unwavering, embedded in a culture of care.
Where quality meets an enhanced experience
We deliver more than a quality audit. Your audit experience is driven by people that care and powered by technology that enables.
Listening carefully to engage knowledgeably
For us, business is personal—so you can count on us. We’ll answer the call and bring the top of our network to address your unique challenges—and opportunities.
Big-picture thinking with industry depth
We start with the audit but work with your full business in mind. We make connections and surface insights across assurance, your industry and beyond so you can evolve your business.
Innovative technology powering PwC’s financial statement audit
We enhance the financial statement audit via our ongoing commitment to technology—continually reinventing and revolutionising.
PwC’s Aura
Driving quality and consistency through a risk-based approach.
Aura, our global ERP system, makes sure work gets done one way - the right way - globally and locally. It is used by over 100,000 auditors worldwide, on every PwC audit. Aura ensures our teams take a consistent, focused and efficient approach to audit risk. This means:
- A better understanding of your business due to end-to-end visibility of the audit process.
- A greater focus on the things that matter thanks to a systematic risk-based approach.
- Our pre-loaded risk software helps teams to identify the relevant risks and perform the right work to address them.
- Consistency and quality of audit delivery across our entire client base.
- Real-time monitoring of engagement quality and progress is available securely on mobile devices, anytime, anywhere.
PwC’s Halo
Understanding your business and gaining deeper insights
Halo, our data auditing technology, tests huge volumes of business-critical data, analysing whole populations, improving risk assessment, analysis and testing, and unlocking a wealth of insight. Halo is revolutionising our audits by harnessing the power of data.
- Enables a greater understanding of your business to enhance audit quality.
- A combined trend and ratio analysis provides you with insights using information we already receive as part of the audit.
- Visualisations highlight patterns and potentially higher risk transactions instantly, enabling a deeper understanding of your business and supporting more relevant conversations.
- Automation of manual tasks leading to greater efficiency.
PwC’s Connect
Connecting people in real time.
Connect, our global coordination tool, provides fast, efficient and secure information sharing at every stage of the audit. It streamlines, standardises and automates real-time communication between your teams and ours, 24/7, wherever you are in the world. This means:
- Better information exchange and document management using a secure, web-based tool.
- Process efficiencies through consolidation and automation of notifications.
- Safe and secure communication for your teams and ours.
- Scalability - globally available for clients, small or large.
- Significantly reduced document management effort.
- Fast and efficient issue resolution due to real-time tracking.
PwC Confirmations
Confirmation
- Integrates with Thomson Reuters’ Confirmation Platform (Confirmation.com) allowing us and those who respond to confirmations to use its network of thousands of responding companies, financial institutions, and law firms
- Responses provided directly in the platform simplify the experience for your teams and ours
- Real-time visibility of the status confirmations process
- Protects your data, providing for a safe and secure confirmation process
- Provides an intuitive and consistent experience
What we bring to your audit
Compliance with regulations / Accountants reports
Advice on controls and processing system weaknesses
Confirmation of accounting treatments with respect to complex transactions
Increased monitoring of prospective accounting and regulatory changes
Independent review of externally reported information
