Discover the P&A Grant Thornton Difference.
P&A Grant Thornton is a leading professional services firm that helps dynamic organisations go beyond industry standards. Our brand is respected globally as one of the major accounting organisations recognised by capital markets, regulators, and international standards setting bodies.
With over 35 years of deep technical expertise and experience, we have helped dynamic organisations realize their strategic ambitions. Whether you’re looking for finance growth, manage risk and regulation, optimise your operations, or realise stakeholder value, we’re here to help.
Punongbayan & Araullo (P&A) is the Philippine member firm of Grant Thornton International Ltd (GTIL), one of the world’s leading organisations of independently owned and managed accounting and consulting firms.
Our Philippine Team
1,500+ people and 30 partners in 5 locations, empowering enterprises and nurturing talent.
A Global Network
76,000 professionals in 156 markets, offering insights and global capabilities.
Local Roots, Global Reach
Global scale meets local knowledge, supporting you wherever you are and where you aim to grow.
Why P&A Grant Thornton
We believe that P&A Grant Thornton offers a powerful combination of true scale, excellent service, and effective relationships to deliver added value to your business.
Going beyond is what makes us different, and that is what clients value the most.
Year after year, our global Net Promoter Score rates us as world class (average score based on surveying 10,000-member firm clients in 40 countries), more than twice the average for business-to-business service providers.
We make business personal.
We invest in listening, building relationships, and understanding your concerns. Our team focuses on challenging you constructively and collaboratively engages and offers solutions that are both illuminating and actionable.
We work at the pace that matters. Yours.
We aren’t limited by geographical borders. We’ve replaced silos with relationships. We simplify the complex, making the technical accessible. You’ll always be ready to react at the speed of today’s business. Our flatter structure and agile approach quickly adapt to your way of working.
We value diverse perspectives.
We celebrate fresh thinking, combining deep industry expertise with newly uncovered insights. And we leave no stone unturned until you see the whole picture so you can make decisions with confidence.
We don’t predict the future. We help you shape it.
A brighter tomorrow starts with a clear eye on the horizon and compass to guide you. This fuels us to match proactive insights with practical applications. Creating sustainable growth through positive progress. No matter how challenging the road ahead is, you’ll be confident that you’re moving forward.
We are committed to delivering consistently high quality of work.
Every time you work with Grant Thornton, no matter which member firm in our network, you’ll find the same rigorous approach, professional standards and commitment to excellence. And we’re constantly leveraging our technical expertise and technological innovations to set the bar even higher.
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Our heritage
P&A Grant Thornton was born in 1988, headed by two prominent leaders in the accounting profession in the Philippines, Benjamin R. Punongbayan and Jose G. Araullo.
Punongbayan & Araullo (P&A) is the Philippine member firm of Grant Thornton International Ltd, one of the world’s leading organisations of independently owned and managed accounting and consulting firms.
Vision
To be the preferred business advisor of dynamic organisations.
Mission
As a leading professional services firm, we deliver to our clients the highest quality work and value added services responsive to their needs and expectations. We attract, develop and retain high-performance people, and commit to make continuous improvement in all that we do.
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Benjamin R. Punongbayan
Ben is a pillar of the Philippine accounting profession, with over 60 years of experience in public accounting. As the esteemed founder of P&A Grant Thornton, Ben’s guidance allowed the Firm to position itself as one of the largest public accounting firms in the Philippines.

Jose G. Araullo
Joe's professional experience includes top management positions held over 14 years in a group of companies that includes the country’s largest commercial bank. Prior to his role as Chairman Emeritus of P&A Grant Thornton, he held CEO- and COO-level positions in the network’s various companies.
Culture and Values
Grant Thornton’s culture is one of our most valuable assets and has steered us in the right direction for more than 100 years. Across the globe, we have more than 76,000 people committed to bringing our values to life every day and striving for excellence so that your business can flourish and go beyond expectations.
Beyond business as usual
At Grant Thornton, we maintain a mindset that advocates for going beyond in everything that we do – this promotes our culture that steers away from the norm. This distinctive approach combines genuine care for your business, increased agility, diverse perspectives, high quality service, and fresh solutions. We believe this combination results in stronger collaboration, a deeper understanding of our clients’ agendas and ultimately, more valuable and meaningful advice.
Working with dynamic businesses
As the fastest-growing global accounting organisation in 2012 and 2013, we work with dynamic, ambitious organisations. This means we must be dynamic ourselves. Every day, we make a difference for our clients and genuinely care about helping them achieve their goals and thrive.
A culture of collaboration
With more than 76,000 people across more than 156 countries, we have a huge global reach and scale across the organisation. This enables us to think outside the silo to give you the bigger picture, as our network is your network. With diverse ideas coming from all around the world, we will make sure to provide you with every single insight. This means you’ll receive consistent world-class solutions from Grant Thornton from wherever you are in the world.
Our CLEARR Values
As well as a distinctive global culture, we have developed six core principles, known as our CLEARR values.
- Collaboration: ask for help, give help – we work well together
- Leadership: have courage and inspire others – we challenge each other to be the best we can be
- Excellence: find a better way every time – we never get complacent
- Agility: think broadly, act quickly – we thrive in change
- Respect: listen and understand, be forthright – we create honest relationships
- Responsibility: use influence wisely – we own our actions

Corporate Social Responsibility
We don’t just go beyond in the office: we go beyond in serving our communities as well. Our Corporate Social Responsibility initiatives seek to give back through working with charities, supporting education, healthcare and the environment.
