PwC Zimbabwe is a member of the PwC network of firms found in 157 countries with more than 208,000 employees. The objectives of PwC's service offering are to build trust and enhance value for clients and stakeholders. To meet the requirements of their clients, as well as regulators, their services are grouped into three distinct service lines, namely; Assurance, Advisory and Tax. Appreciating the importance of agriculture in the southern Africa region, Price Waterhouse merged, in 1990, with PTA Consulting Services, a consulting company that had been involved in agricultural and rural development consultancy throughout the region. This resulted in the firm having a unique capacity in agriculture and rural development issues through its Agriculture and Rural Development (ARD) unit. The ARD unit has been operational in Southern Africa since 1990.