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Audit approach overview
Our audit approach will allow our client's accounting personnel to make the maximum contribution to the audit effort without compromising their ongoing responsibilities
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Annual and short period audit
At P&A Grant Thornton, we provide annual and short period financial statement audit services that go beyond the normal expectations of our clients. We believe strongly that our best work comes from combining outstanding technical expertise, knowledge and ability with exceptional client-focused service.
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Review engagement
A review involves limited investigation with a narrower scope than an audit, and is undertaken for the purpose of providing limited assurance that the management’s representations are in accordance with identified financial reporting standards. Our professionals recognize that in order to conduct a quality financial statement review, it is important to look beyond the accounting entries to the underlying activities and operations that give rise to them.
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Other Related Services
We make it a point to keep our clients abreast of the developments and updates relating to the growing complexities in the accounting world. We offer seminars and trainings on audit- and tax-related matters, such as updates on Accounting Standards, new pronouncements and Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) issuances, as well as other developments that affect our clients’ businesses.
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Tax advisory
With our knowledge of tax laws and audit procedures, we help safeguard the substantive and procedural rights of taxpayers and prevent unwarranted assessments.
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Tax compliance
We aim to minimize the impact of taxation, enabling you to maximize your potential savings and to expand your business.
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Corporate services
For clients that want to do business in the Philippines, we assist in determining the appropriate and tax-efficient operating business or investment vehicle and structure to address the objectives of the investor, as well as related incorporation issues.
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Tax education and advocacy
Our advocacy work focuses on clarifying the interpretation of laws and regulations, suggesting measures to increasingly ease tax compliance, and protecting taxpayer’s rights.
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Business risk services
Our business risk services cover a wide range of solutions that assist you in identifying, addressing and monitoring risks in your business. Such solutions include external quality assessments of your Internal Audit activities' conformance with standards as well as evaluating its readiness for such an external assessment.
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Business consulting services
Our business consulting services are aimed at addressing concerns in your operations, processes and systems. Using our extensive knowledge of various industries, we can take a close look at your business processes as we create solutions that can help you mitigate risks to meet your objectives, promote efficiency, and beef up controls.
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Transaction services
Transaction advisory includes all of our services specifically directed at assisting in investment, mergers and acquisitions, and financing transactions between and among businesses, lenders and governments. Such services include, among others, due diligence reviews, project feasibility studies, financial modelling, model audits and valuation.
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Forensic advisory
Our forensic advisory services include assessing your vulnerability to fraud and identifying fraud risk factors, and recommending practical solutions to eliminate the gaps. We also provide investigative services to detect and quantify fraud and corruption and to trace assets and data that may have been lost in a fraud event.
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Cyber advisory
Our focus is to help you identify and manage the cyber risks you might be facing within your organization. Our team can provide detailed, actionable insight that incorporates industry best practices and standards to strengthen your cybersecurity position and help you make informed decisions.
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ProActive Hotline
Providing support in preventing and detecting fraud by creating a safe and secure whistleblowing system to promote integrity and honesty in the organisation.
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Accounting services
At P&A Grant Thornton, we handle accounting services for several companies from a wide range of industries. Our approach is highly flexible. You may opt to outsource all your accounting functions, or pass on to us choice activities.
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Staff augmentation services
We offer Staff Augmentation services where our staff, under the direction and supervision of the company’s officers, perform accounting and accounting-related work.
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Payroll Processing
Payroll processing services are provided by P&A Grant Thornton Outsourcing Inc. More and more companies are beginning to realize the benefits of outsourcing their noncore activities, and the first to be outsourced is usually the payroll function. Payroll is easy to carve out from the rest of the business since it is usually independent of the other activities or functions within the Accounting Department.
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Our values
Grant Thornton prides itself on being a values-driven organisation and we have more than 38,500 people in over 130 countries who are passionately committed to these values.
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Global culture
Our people tell us that our global culture is one of the biggest attractions of a career with Grant Thornton.
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Learning & development
At Grant Thornton we believe learning and development opportunities allow you to perform at your best every day. And when you are at your best, we are the best at serving our clients
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Global talent mobility
One of the biggest attractions of a career with Grant Thornton is the opportunity to work on cross-border projects all over the world.
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Diversity
Diversity helps us meet the demands of a changing world. We value the fact that our people come from all walks of life and that this diversity of experience and perspective makes our organisation stronger as a result.
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In the community
Many Grant Thornton member firms provide a range of inspirational and generous services to the communities they serve.
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Fresh Graduates
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Students
Whether you are starting your career as a graduate or school leaver, P&A Grant Thornton can give you a flying start. We are ambitious. Take the fact that we’re the world’s fastest-growing global accountancy organisation. For our people, that means access to a global organisation and the chance to collaborate with more than 40,000 colleagues around the world. And potentially work in different countries and experience other cultures.
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Experienced hires
P&A Grant Thornton offers something you can't find anywhere else. This is the opportunity to develop your ideas and thinking while having your efforts recognised from day one. We value the skills and knowledge you bring to Grant Thornton as an experienced professional and look forward to supporting you as you grow you career with our organisation.
WASH SYCIP was a very well known person, not only in the Philippines, but also in the whole world. He had a huge network which he persistently, untiringly, and continuously created and developed until the very end. He worked very hard and read very widely to make himself knowledgeable about practically everything in business. He was not a commercial or industrial entrepreneur, but he saw himself as the professional adviser to the entrepreneur and he did it exceedingly well. I don’t think we will see the likes of Wash for a very long time.
I consider him my mentor, not in the sense of the relationship between a principal and an apprentice in developing a skill. He was my mentor in the way I saw he conducted himself in business and social gatherings, small and large; sought and acquired knowledge; developed people; made things happen; pursued excellence; entertained guests and friends; and many more. He did these things outstandingly well. I tried to learn from him and emulate him, but I never reached his level of excellence. Wash Sycip is unique; he is one of a kind.
It was Wash who interviewed me for a job at SGV when I was 20. He advised me then to get married soon. I wondered about that. He probably wanted me to become more responsible at that young age. When I was leaving for the US to study as an SGV scholar, I saw him one day in his office to say goodbye. During our brief conversation, he was correcting my English pronunciation.
In one of his visits to SGV Malaysia where I was then assigned, on leaving the office for a client visit, he saw a paper clip lying on the office corridor floor. He picked it up and gave it to me and said that such a stray clip may be a very small thing but such a loss accumulates and therefore I should save it.
Even when Wash was no longer actively participating in the operations of SGV, he still wanted all completed audited financial statements routed to him, but at that time each bundle came to me first. One day, he came to my room clutching a bundle and complaining that I was delaying the movement of the bundles as he noticed from the dates recorded on the routing slip. Of course, he told me to get the thing going quickly.
I am sure that many others at SGV had similar experiences with him. I don’t think I need to characterize these experiences any further. These illustrate clearly his strong, tenacious, persistent passion to achieve utmost excellence.
Wash’s strong desire to maintain and develop further his network continued at the same tempo up to the very end. Almost always, I saw Wash on business gatherings and receptions that I attended. And I didn’t go to many.
When Wash turned 96, we met at a dinner reception hosted by Bobby Ongpin on July 31. And behold, I saw him again at the Swiss Confederation reception the following evening. The last time I saw him was during the SGV Alumni Homecoming last month. We had a brief chat and he was telling me in a faint voice that he just met someone who had worked with me at P&A. Amazing!
I wish I was good at superlatives so I can describe Wash as he deserves and truly was. He was sublime, singular, quintessential, full of grit, a truly great man.
Goodbye, Wash. You left to many of us very wonderful and everlasting memories. May you rest in peace.
Benjamin R. Punongbayan is the founder of Punongbayan and Araullo, one of the Philippines’ leading auditing firms.
As published in BusinessWorld, dated 09 October 2017