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As business practices evolve and transactions become more complex, the world of financial reporting continuously changes to address the increasing needs of the business community.

Christmas is generally a time spent with family. Everywhere we go – restaurants, parks, cinemas, even cemeteries – we see families spending time together.

Traveling back and forth between Manila and Davao City has become a routine for me during the period we, external auditors, normally consider the busy season. From November to May, I earned a lot of airline miles that enabled me to attend various client meetings down south. My trip to Davao City last November 26 was different.

While queueing at immigration upon my arrival at Terminal 3 of Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) recently, I found it sad that Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) — our “modern day heroes” — coming home for Christmas are not getting the heroes’ welcome they deserve.

Mom, if God does not want Adam and Eve to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, why did God put that tree in the Garden of Eden?”

Three Pinoy friends are waiting to catch a jeepney for a ride home. |A jeepney stops in front of them, but only two seats are vacant. What do you think will happen next? They will either give this a miss and wait for the next one, or get on board, with one of them having to sit on another’s lap. Is this a familiar story?

Today is the fourth Corporate Governance forum organized by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE) at the PICC.

For this very long weekend due to the 2017 Asean Summit, I decided to move out of the house and stay someplace else with my two girls.