PWC research

Question 1

Who are PwC?

Answer 1

A world leading professional services firm and the biggest professional service firm in the UK, with over £4 billion in revenue.

Question 2

In terms of graduates, what did pwC win?

Answer 2

PwC has been voted the UK’s number one graduate employer in The Times Top 100 Graduate Employers for an unprecedented fifteenth consecutive year

Question 3

How was PwC performed?

Answer 3

PricewaterhouseCoopers was created on 1 July 1998 by the merger of two firms - Price Waterhouse and Coopers & Lybrand

Question 4

What do pwC want to be in terms of CSR?

Answer 4

They want to be carbon emission net zero by 2030.

Question 5

What are pwC’s 5 core values?

Answer 5

Act with integrity
Make a difference 
Care 
Work together
Reimagine the possible

Question 6

What does Act with integrity mean in a nutshell?

Answer 6

Speak up for what is right, especially when it feels difficult and deliver high quality outcomes.

Question 7

What does Make a difference mean?

Answer 7

Create an impact with our colleagues, our clients and society through our actions.

Question 8

What does care mean?

Answer 8

Make the effort to understand every individual and what matters to them.

Question 9

What does Reimagine the possible mean?

Answer 9

Speak to challenge the status quo and try new things.

Question 10

What is pwC’s purpose?

Answer 10

s to build trust in society and solve important problems.

Question 11

PwC adopts a purpose led culture which is incorporates what ( 5 things) ?

Answer 11

Leveraging technology

Delivering exceptional client outcomes

Empowering our people

Committed to high quality

Sustainable profitable growth

Question 12

What is PWC client satisfaction and employee engagement score?

Answer 12

Client satisfaction = 8.78/10
8.66/10 2019

83%
75% 2019

Question 13

Why was pwC still able to grow during and after lockdown?

Answer 13

long-term investment in collaborative technologies and a flexible working culture meant the transition to remote working could be made with confidence.

Question 14

What did pWc do in society through technology during lockdown?

Answer 14

Digital fitness app - freely available for anyone to use during the pandemic - and it now has 65,000 downloads globally and nearly 3,000 in the UK.
TechWeCan lesson plans - making resources available for parent and carers of children to teach children at home

Question 15

The pandemic has intensified a catalyst for change, focusing on ways to learn new skills which can boost GDP, what sort of innovations have been made for clients? What is the motto they use too?

Answer 15

Digital academies people have experienced hands-on training in data manipulation and visualisation tools. We are applying these new tech skills to work with our clients and to help solve their important problems. over 5000 employees have attended.

Newworldnewskills

Question 16

What is the percentage of males in pwC as opposed to females and what is the ethnicity distubtion at pwC in 2021?

Answer 16

53% MALES
47% FEMALES.

67% white
25% ethnic minority ( 8% undisclosed)

Question 17

What was pwC’s carbon reduction target and did it surpass it?

Answer 17

This year, we surpassed our 2022 target of a 40% reduction in total carbon emissions, two years early even before the impact of the pandemic, which led to a 60% total drop in line with the reductions needed to achieve the Paris Agreement

Question 18

What are pwC 5 lines of service?

Answer 18

Audit 
Consulting 
Tax 
Risk 
Deals

Question 19

In general what have over 2600+ consultants helped pWC to do?

Answer 19

helped organisations to implement new technologies, map their route to decarbonisation, design and deliver hybrid working strategies. This is done by combining technology, strategy and experience.

Question 20

What did the pandemic stimulate?

Answer 20

accelerated demand for digital and cloud transformation this year.(2021)

Question 21

What award did the management consultants win in 2021?

Answer 21

28 gold and silver medals in the FT’s Leading Management Consultants 2021 ratings

Question 22

Who are PWC’S main compeitiors?

Answer 22

Deloitte, EY and KPMG

Question 23

What is cloud computing?

Answer 23

Rather than managing files and services on a local storage device, you can do the same over the internet, in a cost effieicent manner.

Question 24

To understand cloud computing more lets say imagine you built a new house and need to get electricity for it. You have 2 choices 1) generate your own electricity 2) buy electricity from power company. If you decide to generate your own electricity you will have to spend a lot of time, money space and effort in building and maintaing power sources. This is highly dependent on whether too. If you buy from power company for a monthly fee. The power company ensures you have enough electricity to meet your needs. What are some cloud service providers and how is this example the same as Cloud computing?

Answer 24

Cloud service companies like Amazon web services work in the same way as power company. In the past business used to power their own equipment and maintain infrastructure through IT needs, things like switches fans and cables were maintained by IT department. This is expensive and can be unreliable. SO companies like AWS have the equipment and resources to provide on demand IT infrastructure via cloud.

Question 25

What do you expect your role of a junior/graduate manager consultant to do?

Answer 25

I will be taking notes in meetings with a lot of executives

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Question 26

Do PWC acquire companies to strengthen their service from strategy, technology, operations etc?

Answer 26

Yes

Question 27

What are the different branches of consulting that pWC offer?

Answer 27

Finance consulting
Technology consulting 
Strategy consulting 
Operations consulting
Experience consulting

Question 28

What are some issues that PWC are looking at specifically state a fact about one of the 3 you will talk about?

Answer 28

Cyber security
ESG
Talent and skills (We estimate that closing the skills gap could boost UK GDP by £87bn—equivalent to 3.4%—by 2030.)

Question 29

Due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine what have pwC done?

Answer 29

PwC and KPMG have severed ties with their businesses in Russia and Belarus, becoming the first Big Four accounting firms to exit the countries since the invasion of Ukraine.

Question 30

General news ? why does Russia’s invasion in Ukraine serve a huge risk in global society?

Answer 30

As, we still haven’t recovered from the pandemic fully, where inflation is high and now there is a surge in energy and oil prices, making standards of living even worse. Originally Russia was the largest exporter of oil.

Question 31

What is the new equation?

Answer 31

We’re working to build trust, deliver sustained outcomes and help clients solve their most important problems by combining human ingenuity and understanding with the right technology for real results. It will create new jobs with human ingenuity to solve difficult problems. It is looking to upskill workforce.