PricewaterhouseCoopers provides industry-focused services for public and private clients in order to build public trust and enhance value through the application of what we call Connected Thinking. PricewaterhouseCoopers is a truly global organisation of more than 155,000 people in 150 countries.

At PricewaterhouseCoopers, we measure our success by yours. Every day our partners and staffs go to work to help our clients succeed. From Dublin to Durban, from Minneapolis to Manila, our job is channelling knowledge and value through our lines of service and 22 industry-specialised practices.

Our Global Annual Review details how our industry-focused services in the fields of assurance, tax, human resources, transactions, performance improvement and crisis management have helped address client and stakeholder issues. Our success in meeting today's business challenges rests on the way we approach our work. We call that approach Connected Thinking.

Sound governance and transparency form the bedrock of leadership. We are committed to serving as a force for integrity, good sense and wise solutions to the problems facing businesses and the capital markets today. Transparency and good standards of corporate governance—both in our clients' businesses and in our own—are central to our ability to achieve those objectives. And we aim to continue to achieve them from our position of strength and professional leadership.

• Excellence
• Teamwork
• Leadership

These are expressed in our Code of Conduct, which constitutes the DNA of our firm, helping us achieve that extra dimension of performance that makes our company and employees stand out by being outstanding. From the moment they are recruited and throughout their professional life, our staff are provided with the right tools and training on how to integrate our values into their behaviour. In this way our values are not just something we adopt, but something we live.