VATICAN CITY
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ROME – In the latest twist to the saga of Pope Francis’s financial reform, the Vatican announced Friday it has entered into a new contract for auditing and consulting services with the global firm of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), this time as a resource for its own in-house auditing agency as well as other departments.
“PwC will play an assisting role, and will also be available to those [departments] that wish to avail themselves of its support and consulting services,” a Vatican statement released Friday said.
The new contract, according to the statement, “provides for a broader collaboration with PwC that is adaptable to the Holy See’s needs,” and means the Vatican will “promptly resume its collaboration with PwC.”
The statement also says that by law, primary responsibility for performing the Vatican’s annual audits “is entrusted to the Office of the Auditor General (URG), as is normally the case for every sovereign state.”
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