Building stakeholder trust

Society needs to be able trust the organisations on which it depends. High-quality financial and non-financial reporting is essential for building it.

Because trust is also important to you and your stakeholders, every aspect of our audit process is designed to deliver the highest quality and ensure robust, reliable outcomes.

We bring deep expertise in assurance alongside data-powered auditing techniques to enhance audit quality and enable us to look beyond the financials. We provide insights that will enable you to protect and strengthen your business, from people and performance to business resilience, strategy and more.

Explore how you can increase trust and transparency through our external audits and audit-related services.

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Delivering trust through quality and excellence

Our Transparency Report explains how the firm and audit practice is governed, as well as providing more detail on our approach to quality, independence, the challenges we face and how we are responding to them.

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Every aspect of our audit is designed to deliver the highest quality, ensuring that every opinion we sign is one you can trust.

From ensuring we understand your organisation and its key systems and processes, to extracting data, concluding and signing the report, our auditing, experts and robust approach will enable your stakeholders to have trust in your organisation.

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“As society’s expectations change and stakeholder demands for information evolve, building and maintaining trust remains at the very heart of our role as auditors. Through our deep technical knowledge, multidisciplinary expertise and cutting edge technology, we ensure the quality, integrity and transparency of our work continues to build trust in what matters most.”

Andy HammondHead of Audit, PwC UK

Today organisations are being judged on more than just financial performance. Information on ESG, regulation and technology play an important role helping stakeholders understand full enterprise value.

With formal assurance, you can demonstrate that you meet the standards you say you do, ensuring that investors, regulators and customers can trust your reporting.

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“Once seen as a nice to have, non-financial reporting is now driving access to capital and cost of funding, reputation with customers, suppliers and society, attraction and retention of talent and ultimately enterprise value. Reporting must be transparent, stand up to scrutiny from all stakeholders and be trusted.”

Paolo TauraeUK Sustainability Assurance Leader, PwC UK

The PwC Audit Committee Network supports audit committee chairs and members in an ever-changing market landscape.

We offer a series of workshops designed for FTSE 350 (and equivalent) organisations, which include updates on regulatory, accounting and corporate reporting developments, as well as other topics high on the audit committee agenda.

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“I find the PwC Audit Committee updates and workshops the best amongst the accounting firms.”

FTSE350 Audit Committee Chair

How we build trust in society

Our purpose is to build trust in society and solve important problems, in audit and beyond. Here, you can explore ways in which we are looking to build trust in these areas.

The Path to Controls Assurance

A controls report is significant for building your credibility. Learn how we can help

The Resilience Statement

We look at how a Resilience Statement could be developed, including providing a full illustrative example spanning three successive annual reports.

An Audit and Assurance Policy

Trust and confidence are critical to enhancing the business environment and making the UK an attractive destination for foreign investment and a world leading capital market.

Viewpoint UK

Global accounting and reporting insights, personalised for you, with real-time updates and a variety of format options.

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Accounting and Reporting Updates: Join the April webcast

A series of live webcasts for those involved in accounting and reporting. This series will provide you with technical and accounting knowledge in a flexible and interactive manner.

Five trends shaping the sustainability agenda in 2025, and the actions you can take now

From climate and nature, to reporting and ESG tech, we look at five key sustainability trends and how they can be a driver for innovation, growth and value.

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Upcoming ESG ratings regulation

Learn how to stay ahead of upcoming ESG ratings regulations in the UK and EU. Discover key compliance areas and strategies for transparency, independence, and robust governance to demonstrate leadership in the evolving ESG landscape.

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A window of opportunity

PwC’s annual FTSE 350 reporting review finds a year of relative calm in reporting disclosures but clear recognition of the myriad of regulations to come.

Leaning into regulatory compliance

Explore the impact of compliance audits for the financial services sector and how they can boost transparency, trust, and sustainability in a dynamic regulatory landscape.