PricewaterhouseCoopers

PwC A global accounting, auditing, and professional services firm. One of the *Big Four firms, PwC was established in its current form by the merger of Price Waterhouse and Coopers & Lybrand in 1998. (The merger was an important stage in the ongoing consolidation of the large accounting firms, and at the time it reduced the Big Six to the *Big Five.) The origins of both Price Waterhouse and Coopers & Lybrand are traced to the United Kingdom in the nineteenth century. Further reading: Allen (1990); Jones (1995); Matthews et al. (1998) Web site: www.pwcglobal.com