The Latest Breaking News from PwC

How does Oscars voting work? This is how winners are decided

The road to an Oscar winds through a long awards season, which finally culminates Sunday at the Academy Awards

The Independent UK · Mar 12, 2023

PwC finds South West now second best place in the UK for women in the workplace

The region had been ranked as the best place in the country for women to work by the accounting firm for three consecutive years

Birmingham Post · Mar 8, 2023

PwC fined £5.6m over ‘serious breaches’ in audits of defence firm Babcock

The accounting regulator has severely reprimanded two former partners at the firm

Birmingham Post · Mar 8, 2023

Gender pay gap increases as men now earn 14.4% more than women in UK

It will now take more than 50 years to reach gender pay parity

Wales Online · Mar 7, 2023

UK women priced out of work by lack of affordable childcare, PwC finds

Pressure builds for childcare help in budget as Britain slips down global league table for women in work

The Guardian - UK · Mar 7, 2023

UK gender pay gap widens as childcare costs worsen ‘motherhood penalty’

The nation’s average pay gap widened by 2.4 percentage points to 14.4% in 2021, accountancy giant PwC found in its Women in Work index.

The Independent UK · Mar 7, 2023

West Midlands retail closures highest in Britain

But a new report by PwC also says that last year the actual rate of shutdowns in the region was its lowest since 2018.

Birmingham Post · Mar 6, 2023

Leicester, Nottingham and Derby shop closures slowing

Sector partly helped by a bounce-back in businesses such as takeaways, convenience stores, DIY and pet stores

Birmingham Post · Mar 2, 2023

Decline in North East retail slows with lowest shop closures for six years

Data from PwC and the Local Data Company a net closure rate of 122 in 2022

Birmingham Post · Mar 1, 2023

Lowest rate of store closures since 2014 as post-Covid physical retail recovery picks up

In greater London last year there were 1208 store openings, compared with 1857 closures, which is an improvement on each of the prior two years

Evening Standard · Mar 1, 2023