Introduction PricewaterhouseCoopers is a multinational company that has its headquarters in the United Kingdom.It is renowned worldwide to be the largest accountancy services provider in over 160 countries worldwide.The name was formed by the combination of names Pricewaterhouse and Coopers Lybrand after they decided to have a merger in the year 1998. What they do PricewaterhouseCoopers is known worldwide to be the largest professional services provider. They provide accountancy and consultancy services worldwide in over 160 countries and has offices in over 787 cities worldwide. Their professional services range from management and consultancy services, outsourced business services, financial solutions advice, tax consultancy and legal advice and mostly auditing services. Tax advisory services are aimed at helping companies in planning, ensuring compliance to the local tax laws and adherence to local customs regulations. Other advisory services which are mainly consultancy services cover issues such as strategy management, overall performance improvement, business asset valuation such as the land buildings and other assets. Other services include business recovery services from poor performance, crisis management, corporate financing solutions and transaction services. In the general market, their services aim to target the various broad industries specialties such as the private sector services, government institutions and infrastructure, entertainment and communication industry, financial service providers and the general consumer products and services. Mission and vision PricewaterhouseCoopers’ mission is to provide their customers and clients with solutions to complex business problems that exist in the day to day financial life. They also have a vision in continuing to improve performance in managing risk related issues and being able to estimate their ability to enhance value building and improvement. What made PWC so successful and how they gained the success to become a worldwide company After Pricewaterhouse and Coopers Lybrand merged in the year 1998, they were able to form the largest accounting partnership and business consultancy services provider worldwide. With approximately 180,000 professional employees worldwide, they were able to provide a wide range of services to over 159 countries and 776 cities. This ensured that their services were easily accessible to almost all countries in the world and as a result made people gain trust as the best consultancy business services provider. Being able to have a global outreach and providing services across Europe and various countries worldwide, they were able to put themselves in a different league. Merging also enabled them have a wide base of consultancy services that generate fees which ensured their sustainability in the future. Growth was attributed to factors such the ability to provide and implement a variety of complex services to international corporations. Having seen auditing services being increasingly risky and expensive, they decided to venture deeply into consultancy services. This was to avoid paying huge payments related to the collapse of companies they were accused of auditing. In one instance that in