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Fact Sheet PricewaterhouseCoopers AG

Core Company Information
Company Name PricewaterhouseCoopers AG
Company UID CHE-106.839.438
Alternative / previous Names PricewaterhouseCoopers SA, PricewaterhouseCoopers Ltd
Domicile Zürich
Canton ZH
Legal Form Limited corporation
Firm Inscription Date 22.06.1998
Takeovers: Controllexpert AG (ADM-137.181.853), per 24.09.2001
Revisuisse Price Waterhouse AG (ADM-271.016.843), per 25.01.2001
Price Waterhouse AG (ADM-315.960.011), per 25.01.2001
STG-Coopers & Lybrand Consulting AG (ADM-405.109.008), per 19.03.2001
Ofor Révision Bancaire SA (CHE-100.093.893), per 30.04.2012
Coopers & Lybrand, Revisa, Revisuisse AG (CHE-101.269.060)
Willy Bühler & Co Treuhand und Revisions AG (CHE-101.271.602), per 19.07.2005
Trewi Treuhand- und Revisions-AG (CHE-103.390.270), per 19.07.2005
Ofor (CHE-103.852.431), per 22.12.2005
Frei + Kläui Treuhand AG (CHE-107.159.412), per 19.07.2005
FAOA Information
FAOA ID 500003
RAB Permission state-regulated audit firm
FAOA License active
Link to FAOA website View auditor profile at FAOA
Branch offices (13) PricewaterhouseCoopers AG (CHE-251.833.951) in Aarau (AG)   [+]
PricewaterhouseCoopers AG (CHE-393.441.652) in Basel (BS)
PricewaterhouseCoopers AG (CHE-308.775.052) in Bern (BE)
PricewaterhouseCoopers AG (CHE-421.817.078) in Chur (GR)
PricewaterhouseCoopers SA (CHE-390.062.005) in Genève (GE)
PricewaterhouseCoopers SA (CHE-478.378.975) in Lugano (TI)
PricewaterhouseCoopers AG (CHE-434.873.063) in Luzern (LU)
PricewaterhouseCoopers AG (CHE-346.954.590) in Münchenstein (BL)
PricewaterhouseCoopers SA (CHE-291.782.389) in Neuchâtel (NE)
PricewaterhouseCoopers SA (CHE-497.306.752) in Pully (VD)
PricewaterhouseCoopers SA (CHE-140.989.034) in Sion (VS)
PricewaterhouseCoopers AG (CHE-364.598.872) in St. Gallen (SG)
PricewaterhouseCoopers AG (CHE-289.904.602) in Thun (BE)
PricewaterhouseCoopers AG (CHE-151.657.932) in Winterthur (ZH)
PricewaterhouseCoopers AG (CHE-254.525.813) in Zug (ZG)
Membership in Associations EXPERTsuisse
Number of auditors with permission 351  (17.58 audit engagements per employee on average)
Auditor Statistics

Average engagement duration: 10.7 years (max.: 32.3 years)

Total number of statutory audit engagements: 6'172 (Ranked #1 in Switzerland)

Change in number of audit engagements: -179 (since 31.12.2020), -258 (over the last 12 months)

Number of audit clients listed on a Swiss stock exchange: 86 (thereof 9 in the SMI, 8 in the SMI Expanded and 64 in the SPI)

Details regarding the distribution of the audit engagements across legal forms and cantons are depicted in the table below.

  AG AI AR BE BL BS FR GE GL GR JU LU NE NW OW SG SH SO SZ TG TI UR VD VS ZG ZH ∑
Limited corporation 163 6 39 373 152 198 88 408 15 73 29 186 115 23 8 278 45 54 99 87 142 4 318 75 292 1'026 4'296
Limited liability company 11   1 18 17 14 4 49 1 8   43 11 1 2 18 19 11 6 6 14   30   68 112 464
Foundation 31 1 10 85 28 139 7 118 2 21   51 34 11 3 63 15 8 6 6 17 4 70 11 28 281 1'050
Cooperative 14     24 6 5 6 5 1 9 3 12 5     22 2 8 3 9 16 1 13 14 1 19 198
Association 1     13 2 10   11   2   6       7   3 1   1   13     30 100
Branch office of a foreign company               1               1                     2
Special legal forms   1 1 5   2 2 10 2 3 1 3   2   1 1   1 2 1 1 8 3 3 9 62
∑ 220 8 51 518 205 368 107 602 21 116 33 301 165 37 13 390 82 84 116 110 191 10 452 103 392 1'477 6'172

This auditor is recorded as statutory auditor for 4668 deleted entities. These are not included in the table above.

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Audit Engagements by Branch Office

The 6'172 statutory audits are performed by the branch offices as indicated in the table below.

  AG AI AR BE BL BS FR GE GL GR JU LU NE NW OW SG SH SO SZ TG TI UR VD VS ZG ZH ∑
Aarau 58     4 4 7 1 1       1       1   10     1   1 2 5 18 114
Basel 47     28 171 311 8 5 3 3 7 15 14 1 1 5 15 15 3 1 3 2 2 2 23 61 746
Bern 10   1 367 6 7 13 2     1 23 4 1   4   21   2     5 7 5 30 509
Chur       1         1 66           4             1       73
Genève       7   2 15 508     4 3 18   2 1   1 1 2 2   114 12 14 26 732
Lugano 1   1     3   2   2   5       2 1   3   167       3   190
Luzern 13     15 5 2 1 1       201 1 25 6 4 3 4 14   2 4 1 1 22 15 340
Münchenstein           2                                         2
Neuchâtel       28 2   9 10     15   120     1   3     1   17 1 2 6 215
Pully 3     6   4 39 39     2 2 5       2 4 2 1 1   287 19 4 5 425
Sion       1     2 1                             3 54     61
St. Gallen 6 7 43 5   4   2 6 34   4 1     321 5   4 77 1   1   11 63 595
Thun       2                                             2
Winterthur 1     1 1 2 1                 3 15   4 16     1   5 96 146
Zug 9         1 1 1 2     6         4 4 11           116 17 172
Zürich 72 1 6 53 16 23 17 30 9 11 4 41 2 10 4 44 37 22 74 11 13 4 19 5 182 1'140 1'850
∑ 220 8 51 518 205 368 107 602 21 116 33 301 165 37 13 390 82 84 116 110 191 10 452 103 392 1'477 6'172

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Total number of audit engagements across the network: 6'180

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Latest audit engagements
These are this auditor's latest audit engagements.
 
Client Name Client UID Domicile Start Date Type of switch Auditor Branch
HomeCare Nordstern AG CHE-292.886.583 Schaffhausen 14.06.2021 First auditor Winterthur
Swisspeak Resorts SA CHE-148.990.673 Sion 11.06.2021 First auditor Genève
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DentaCore AG CHE-158.592.601 Baar 09.06.2021 First auditor Zug
Frontiers Global Resources SA CHE-279.304.754 Lausanne 08.06.2021 First auditor Pully
Discontinued audit engagements
The following audit engagements were lost recently, either to a competitor, due to auditor resignation or due to an opting out.
 
Client Name Client UID Domicile End Date Reason Auditor Branch
Raiffeisenbank Beromünster Genossenschaft CHE-105.803.159 Beromünster 14.06.2021 Auditor switch Luzern
Raiffeisenbank Frauenfeld Genossenschaft CHE-107.091.487 Frauenfeld 14.06.2021 Auditor switch St. Gallen
Raiffeisenbank Frutigland Genossenschaft CHE-105.756.755 Frutigen 14.06.2021 Auditor switch Bern
Raiffeisenbank Lägern-Baregg Genossenschaft CHE-105.785.099 Wettingen 14.06.2021 Auditor switch Zürich
Raiffeisenbank Pilatus Genossenschaft CHE-107.865.740 Kriens 14.06.2021 Auditor switch Luzern