PricewaterhouseCoopers offers industry-focused services in the fields of audit and assurance, crisis management, human resources, performance improvement, tax and transactions. Transparency and goods standards of corporate governance are central to PricewaterhouseCoopers ability to achieve solutions to the problems that face businesses and capital markets. It focuses on the challenges that a chief executive officer might perceive, such as managing people, reducing costs, reporting performance, managing risk, doing deals, strengthening governance, regulatory compliance, managing assets, improving business performance, global operations and responding to change. The company has more than 23,000 professionals in approximately 85 cities throughout the United States. PricewaterhouseCoopers maintains a location in Birmingham, Ala.