PricewaterhouseCoopers Sustainability Services

I chose Pricewaterhouse Coopers to provide research services for sustainability reporting. Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PwC) began merging Price Waterhouse and Coopers & Lybrand in 1998. Both accounting organizations are from London. PwC focuses on warranty, taxation, performance improvement and crisis management services. The philosophy of PricewaterhouseCoopers is that sustainable development is not just an environmental problem. Through sustainable development efforts, the company actively engages in sustainability related business issues to implement factors like cost control and to reduce risk.

PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) 2014 Global Survey presented views on the importance of business sustainability to 1,344 CEOs in 68 countries. 74% of respondents said that measuring and reporting the overall impact (both financial and non-financial) will contribute to long-term success. 63% of Chief Executive Officers expressed concern about the availability of key skills within the team and 64% stated that the creation of excellent workforce is a top priority. Tostan, a non-profit organization in Dakar, Senegal, provides human rights education and states that RLI can organize leadership, improve operations, and diversify income. Molly Melching, founder of Tostan, says:

The organization chosen for this study is Pricewaterhouse Coopers. Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PwC) is a multinational professional services company headquartered in London, England. It is the world's largest professional services company and is the biggest "Big 4" accounting firm in 2012 (Wikipedia, 2012). The four major companies are Pricewaterhouse Coopers, Deloitte, Ernst & Young, and KPMG. Politics - There are several laws governing the activities of the company. PwC provides services such as tax advice and warranty service, but these are very important parts of business. They should be handled with extreme caution or they should get a tough penalty. For example, they have recently been fined 1.4 million pounds for failures reported in JP Morgan Chase's customer funds account (Moshinsky, 2012). In addition, these rules are changed or updated from time to time, so PricewaterhouseCoopers must always be in compliance with the law.