The multinational professional services PwC (PricewaterhouseCoopers) has recently launched PwC’s Academy in India, the firm’s new educational business. The Academy will be offering a variety of training courses which will be inspired from the best practices of PwC’s global network of firms.
The academy will be working not only to empower students but organisations across the region as well so as to grow and efficiently use their talent. The academy will be imparting knowledge, competence and expertise of people in finance and business through these course. The training programmes will be customised so as to bring real life business experiences into the classroom.
The growth of professionals and students in the areas of finance and accounting will be the first focus point of PwC’s Academy in India. Provided the rapidly changing regulatory and financial reporting landscape of corporate India, this will help organisations in fighting the resulting challenges head on.
Sanjay Tolia, the partner & leader – markets, PwC India commented on the launch of the PwC’s Academy in India, “India has a large talent pool which needs the relevant training to be employable. Within the field of corporate reporting and regulations, we have seen many important changes resulting in India adopting global best practices. The recent adoption of substantially converged global IFRS standards in India, i.e. Indian Accounting Standards (Ind AS) is a significant change. Therefore, we decided to start with offering related courses.”
He continued, “Over the next couple of years, we aim to diversify the course offerings to include other areas of business.”
For starters, the programmes will be launched in Delhi, Mumbai and Bengaluru and in umbrella will bloom further with time.
PwC is a London-based multinational professional services network which imparts services like Assurance, Advisory, Tax Advisory, Strategy Consulting, Data & Analytics, Management Consulting, Financial Advisory. Actuarial and Legal services. In fact, it is one of the Big Four auditors, along with Deloitte, EY and KPMG.
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