The Gazprom headquarters hosted today a working meeting between Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Company's Management Committee and Dennis Nally, Chairman of the PricewaterhouseCoopers International Network.

The parties addressed pressing issues of the bilateral cooperation placing an emphasis on furthering the consultation services for transfer pricing and risk management enhancement at Gazprom.

It was highlighted that for 19 years of the cooperation PricewaterhouseCoopers had maintained a high quality of services.

Background

PricewaterhouseCoopers International Group of Companies is a global leader in auditing and consulting services. Through a network of its international representative offices, the PricewaterhouseCoopers Group provides professional services in many locations worldwide including Russia (via PricewaterhouseCoopers Audit and affiliated company PricewaterhouseCoopers Russia).

Gazprom and PricewaterhouseCoopers Audit started cooperation in 1995. Currently, PricewaterhouseCoopers Audit renders the following services to Gazprom:

• auditing annual accounting statements of Gazprom (parent company) filed pursuant to the requirements of the Russian legislation;
• auditing annual consolidated accounting statements of Gazprom Group filed in accordance with the requirements of the Russian legislation;
• auditing consolidated financial statements of Gazprom Group filed under the International Financial Reporting Standards.

PricewaterhouseCoopers Audit also serves as the auditor for a range of prominent subsidiaries of Gazprom.