PwC Australia partners are now judged on a range of measures that go beyond billings, a back-to-the-future change part of a suite of reforms that the firm’s inaugural independent chairman says is designed to prevent a repeat of the tax leaks scandal.

John Green, who took up the role in August, conceded that the firm had a long way to go before it had fixed a culture that had been described in a damning report into the scandal as having a “growth at all costs” focus, where rainmakers were seen as “untouchables” to whom “the rules [didn’t] always apply”.