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[edit] Name Change
Didn't PwC change their name to "Monday" or something equally amusing a while ago (and then change it back when everybody laughed at them)? Or was that just a weird dream I had? --Camembert
- They almost did. PWC Consulting planned to change its name to Monday before its IPO, but IBM offered to buy it out not long after the decision, which scrapped the name-change plans. See [1] (BBC), [2] (InformationWeek). --Geoffrey
[edit] Sam Piazza age??
The site says Sam Piazza is 45 years old (ie born in 1959/1960).... The article also says he joined the firm in 1973 and made partner in '79. He joined the firm at 13 and made partner at 19??? Just what kind of hotshot are we talking about here?
[edit] neutrality
Some of this article currently reads like an advert for PwC. Case in point:
"The Advisory Service offerings are woven around creating exceptional value for clients."
Articles on Wikipedia are supposed to be NPOV.--Zoso Jade 13:22, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] incorrect sentence
"Because its only products are the outputs of its personnel, the firm has a competitive recruiting program."
As there are few companies that have products that aren't the output of the company's personnel, it is likely the author of this line meant "Because its major asset is the expertise of its personnel..." --Zoso Jade 15:17, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Academia
--I am going to remove the claim that Binghamton is #1 public university in the Northeast. USNWR ranks several northeast public universities (including Penn State, UConn, Rutgers and Pitt) higher than Binghamton; moreover, this is an NPOV/verifiability issue.
Bhess 04:22, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Headquarters
I've changed "headquarters: New York" to "headquarters: London" here - this still isn't entirely accurate, as the London-based international limited company does co-ordination between member firms rather than overall management, but is more accurate than suggesting that the US partnership's HQ is the HQ for the international firm --Stalinism 10:46, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
The Chairman's office is based at 300 Madison Avenue in New York. Housed here are at least two Line of Service Leaders and the Global Chief Executive. Probably fair to say that New York is the global headquarters. I would view the London office as secondary, but its probably worthwhile noting that the associated legal firm, Landwell, is HQ'd in London. Matt.hatton 07:56, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Clients
I noticed on the EY page that they list their audit clients by industry. I think it would be worthwhile including this information, because I have often thought about this myself, and its hard to come by a definitive list. (15:12, 19 October 2006 (UTC))
Here is the PwC list of industries (please add any companies you can find):
* Aerospace & Defence * Automotive: Ford Motor Company * Banking & Capital Markets * Chemicals * Education & Nonprofit * Energy, Utilities & Mining: ExxonMobil, ChevronTexaco, Royal Dutch Shell * Engineering & Construction * Entertainment & Media: Verisign, Paramount, Yahoo!, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences * Financial Services: Westpac, JPMorganChase, Barclays, Lloyds TSB, Bank of America * Forest, Paper & Packaging * Government/Public Services * Healthcare * Hospitality & Leisure * Industrial Manufacturing * Insurance * Investment Management & Real Estate * Metals * Pharmaceuticals * Retail & Consumer: Nike * Technology: IBM * Telecommunications: Hutchinson Wapora (Orange/Three) * Transportation & Logistics
[edit] At Binghamton
I go to Binghamton (check the IP if you want). The academia tab violates NPOV and was shameless self-promotion, probably by another Binghamton student. What can I say? We do love our self-promotion :^) --149.125.200.78 07:38, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Doesn't Honor Its Commitments
About once a week when I go to work in downtown Vancouver I see this older guy walking around with this sign in front of PWC with a sign saying something like "PWC doesn't honor its commitments". And then on the other side of the sign it says something about its older employees. I couldn't find anything about this on google or google news. Anyone know anything about this?
[edit] Moved "working mothers" award
I hope no one minds. In the "Staff" section I moved the bit about PwC being in the top 10 companies for working mothers to the end of the awards listed there. My reasoning for this is that of all the awards it is the one that is relevant to the least number of staff (I feel being in Fortune's 100 best companies to work for, or The Times no 1. place to work for graduates is far more relevant as it covers all staff). This is not to diminish the importance of the working mother award, but most PwC staff aren't working mothers and I don't believe that an award that relates to a minority of staff probably shouldn't be the second line in the section.--Zoso Jade 19:12, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Philanthropy
"PwC is known for a large investment in various philanthropic activities". The firm's website and annual report does not seem to make that claim. The article refers to the sponsorship of the Binghamton University School of Management PricewaterhouseCoopers Honors Program, but does not indicate how much that costs. Is it "philanthropy" to sponsor a program if you are trying to recruit its graduates? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Swinnow16 (talk • contribs) 09:13, 8 April 2007 (UTC). Swinnow16 09:13, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
