To build trust, we commit to delivering high-quality services, thereby building credibility and demonstrating our trustworthiness. Recognising that an ethical culture is vital for delivering excellent services, we uphold our integrity in every facet of our work. We maintain rigorous internal standards, including our network standards, to secure excellence in our operations.
PwC Belgium can only be a trusted advisor to companies, associations, public entities, and individuals if we adhere strictly to all applicable professional standards and regulations. This includes complying with fundamental principles of objectivity and independence, a critical part of our ability to deliver trustworthy assurance reports on financial and non-financial information, and provide credible advisory, compliance, and digital services. It’s also our legal obligation to play a role in combatting money laundering and corruption by applying client acceptance policies and procedures, including a thorough Know Your Customer (KYC) process, and exercising vigilance throughout all our engagements to avoid our services being exploited by criminals to gain legitimacy for their illicit operations. We prioritise an ethical workplace and culture. We adhere to our values and the PwC Code of Conduct.
Our values make us who we are and hold us accountable to do our best. They direct how we make decisions and how we serve clients. It’s the combination of these values that makes PwC unique, that helps us maintain a fair and respectful workplace and make the right choices in a complex world.
We’ve a robust training curriculum in place based on our values and legal obligations. It’s designed in function of a person’s level within the organisation, their role (client facing or internal) and their PwC experience (new hires or experienced staff members). Topics addressed include ethics and business conduct, AML, antitrust/fair competition, anti-corruption, information protection, sanctions laws, independence and insider trading.
Responsible procurement plays an important role in achieving our sustainability ambitions. ESG criteria are integrated into supplier selection and tender processes, while supplier engagement helps drive improvements in sustainability performance and transparency. As purchased goods and services accounted for approximately 42% of our total greenhouse gas emissions in FY26, reducing value-chain emissions remains a key focus area of our net-zero programme.
Operating in Belgium, PwC’s subject to local strict requirements in relation to professional secrecy and the processing and management of data. And we have strict rules about the physical use of data and documents in our offices and when homeworking (including for home printing). A records retention schedule is maintained to register which records are being used when, where and by whom.