PwC's Technology Enabled Audit

A perfect blend of people + technology

In a fast changing, technology-driven world, building and maintaining trust has never been more important or challenging. Providing trust over financial reporting is a big responsibility, and it lies at the heart of everything we do.

Financial statement audit services

When we combine digital know-how and human ingenuity, you get a financial statement audit with deeper insights, analysis and a process that helps reduce disruption and enhances quality. Our community of solvers uses an innovative approach to spot trends and detect anomalies, giving you a fresh perspective on your audit and a clearer window into your business.

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We thrive in providing digitally upskilled audits that put quality first. That’s what drives us and it’s how we’re bringing the audit into the future.

Explore our audit technology solutions

Our approach is fuelled by a blend of people and technology. Led by people who have the passion and skills to make a difference. And enhanced by powerful technology.

Aura Halo Connect Extract

Aura

Our cloud-based platform is the engine that powers the audit providing quality and consistency throughout the audit.

Driving quality and consistency through a risk-based approach.

Aura, our global ERP system, makes sure work gets done one way - the right way - globally and locally. It is used by over 100,000 auditors worldwide, on every PwC audit. Aura ensures our teams take a consistent, focused and efficient approach to audit risk. This means:

A better understanding of your business due to end-to-end visibility of the audit process.
A greater focus on the things that matter thanks to a systematic risk-based approach.
Our pre-loaded risk software helps teams to identify the relevant risks and perform the right work to address them.
Consistency and quality of audit delivery across our entire client base.
Real-time monitoring of engagement quality and progress is available securely on mobile devices, anytime, anywhere.

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Halo

Award-winning, market-leading technology that harnesses the power of data to help teams see what needs to be seen beyond the numbers on the page.

Understanding your business and gaining deeper insights

Halo, our data auditing technology, tests huge volumes of business-critical data, analysing whole populations, improving risk assessment, analysis and testing, and unlocking a wealth of insight. Halo is revolutionising our audits by harnessing the power of data.

Enables a greater understanding of your business to enhance audit quality.
A combined trend and ratio analysis provides you with insights using information we already receive as part of the audit.
Visualisations highlight patterns and potentially higher risk transactions instantly, enabling a deeper understanding of your business and supporting more relevant conversations.
Automation of manual tasks leading to greater efficiency.

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Connect

Our collaboration platform provides fast, efficient and secure information sharing at every stage of the audit - creating a better audit experience for clients.

Connecting people in real time.

Connect, our global coordination tool, provides fast, efficient and secure information sharing at every stage of the audit. It streamlines, standardises and automates real-time communication between your teams and ours, 24/7, wherever you are in the world. This means:

Better information exchange and document management using a secure, web-based tool.
Process efficiencies through consolidation and automation of notifications.
Safe and secure communication for your teams and ours.
Scalability - globally available for clients, small or large.
Significantly reduced document management effort.
Fast and efficient issue resolution due to real-time tracking.

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Extract

Our suite of extraction tools standardises the way we communicate data requests and how we securely extract and transfer your data.

Extract

Extracts large volumes of data with limited impact on your systems.
Returns standard data formats allowing automated transformation ready for analysis by our applications.
Eliminates the need for repeated, manual intervention through the data extraction process.
Encrypts and compresses the data during the extraction and transfer.
Provides end-to-end protection of your data.
An overall more efficient data acquisition process.

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Get tomorrow’s audit, today.

Trust. Quality. Innovation. What does one have to do with the others? Everything. We need confidence in the machines that make our work more efficient, as much as we do in the people who harness them. That’s why we are facing digital disruption head on. To reimagine the audit with equal parts automation and human experience.

The leading platforms that power today’s audit are just the beginning, and we continue to develop the next wave of innovation to drive even higher quality. From exploring new ways of using data to surface strategic insights, to redefining digital collaboration, the combination of tools and how our people work with one another and with clients, helps deliver a greater audit experience.

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Our focus on audit quality

The quality of our work is at the heart of our organisation, and we invest significant and increasing resources in its continuous enhancement across all of our businesses. This investment is targeted into many different areas, including training (technical, ethical, and behavioural), methodologies, adding resources in key areas, and exploring new ways of delivering our work. Each investment reflects a common determination to understand the factors that drive quality and identify opportunities for enhancement.

Embracing your ESG reporting narrative

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