There is a poster on the wall outside the office belonging to new PricewaterhouseCoopers senior partner Ian Powell, which says: 'I would like us all to have more self-belief and confidence-if we realised how good we really were, the firm would be even more powerful.' All this talk of power is slightly disconcerting when you're just about to meet the man who is probably the UK's most powerful accountant in practice. But luckily, in person, 52-year-old Powell does not appear in the slightest bit power-crazed. In fact, he is exactly the kind of man you'd expect from his press photo. Friendly, approachable, his accent peppered with reassuring traces of the Black Country and - perhaps this is the surprising part for a man who has worked his way to the top of such a highly competitive organisation - above all, really normal.
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