Services

Audit and Assurance Services

Drawing on our extensive industry knowledge our audit approach is at the leading edge of best practice. Our experts tailor that approach to suit the size and nature of your organisation and our deep understanding of regulation and legislation means we can help with complex business issues, such as Sarbanes-Oxley and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS).

We are leaders in the development of non-financial reporting, helping our clients respond to the drive for better corporate governance and sustainability.

Tax

As one of the UK's leading tax planning practices, and with approximately 2,800 tax experts around the country, we are renowned for the depth and quality of our expertise. Our approach embraces many aspects of tax problem solving from ideas to implementation, blending the skills of financial and tax specialists with economists and our other in-house experts as necessary; for example we provide legal services through our associate law firm, PricewaterhouseCoopers Legal.

Develops and applies best practices combining all aspects of tax planning and problem solving from ideas to implementation, blending the skills of financial and tax specialists with economists, lawyers and other in-house experts as necessary.

Business recovery services

Provides advisory and insolvency services to lenders, creditors, companies and individuals in troubled financial situations. Our services include turnaround implementation, financial, operational and strategic advice, optimised exit services, accelerated mergers and acquisitions, solvent reconstructions, insurance company run-off, receivables management, receiverships, administrations and liquidations.

Corporate Finance - Infrastructure and Government

It's our job to understand, advise on and solve the complexities involved in transactions, financing and policy at the interface between the public and private sectors in Scotland; whether it's raising funding for infrastructure projects or procuring private sector partners for our public sector clients. We work with governments, shaping their policy, developing frameworks and helping them to implement PPPs, industry by industry. We reconcile investors' need for profit with the requirements of Government for political and financial transparency. As an independent adviser, we engineer a truly competitive bidding process. And when advising private sector bidders, we help them to develop structures that allow them to access local and international funds.

Forensic services

Helps organisations tackle the major financial and reputational risks associated with economic crime. Our forensic experts identify financial irregularities, recover stolen assets and introduce controls to mitigate the future risk of fraud. The team also has a long-established litigation support practice, helping businesses resolve complex financial disputes arising from corporate transactions, insurance claims, intellectual property and licensing contracts, and construction projects.

Human resource services

Advises companies on all aspects of people management, helping them create value for their businesses through people. Key issues are executive reward schemes, negotiating Inland Revenue agreements, dispensations and annual PAYE settlement agreements.

Consulting

Helps companies react with agility to opportunities and threats by delivering performance improvements that allow them to gain and protect competitive advantage and government and public sector bodies to improve performance and efficiency and deliver successful and enduring benefits from major change programmes.