Therefore in true British Culture may over decades the various local member firms of PwC India and maybe outside would have evolved a Gentlemen's code of honour of how they will continue to benefit using the PwC name in various parts of the country without having to bear the liability arising from each others actions at a financial level ( i think they call this a network of firms that is why and not one firm). Also as regards Sam's visit to India did it occur to you that he was probably in India because probably this audit failure has some implications for PwC US LLP.

It may also be that for the concept of the Network concept to work on a day to day basis it is important for all the firms who carry the common name to have some designated touch points at the country level like say Thomas and at a global level Sam to make the network more managable. Therefore probably their is an expectation gap between how integrated the various network firms really are and what people at large really think..