Services
We deliver value-added audit and assurance services to our clients, helping them manage their fiscal responsibilities with prudence and foresight.
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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.
We believe there is an optimal solution to every business challenge.
Using our Firm's breadth and depth of specialized expertise, we work with you to find...
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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.
We provide solid, first-rate support for your key accounting and administrative activities, such as outsourced accounting, payroll, and accounting-related...
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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.
Japan Desk
With our unique culture and opportunities, our organisation is a place where you can grow. Wherever you are in your career, we help you to make a difference...
We value each of the 50,000 people in our member firms equally and appreciate every contribution across Grant Thornton.
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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.
If you wish to develop your talents to the fullest and build a fulfilling career, join P&A Grant Thornton, where you will be part of a dynamic...
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Fresh Graduates
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.
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Now that the festivities of Christmas and New Year’s have come to pass, let us start reminding ourselves of some of the filing requirements for January 2017. Below chronological are due dates of these filing requirements.
1. January 10
- Monthly Remittance Return of Value Added Tax and Other Percentage Taxes Withheld (BIR Form No. 1600) for the month of December 2016 -- This return shall be filed, whether manual filing or thru electronic filing and payment system (EFPS) by the following: (a) all government offices, bureaus, agencies or instrumentalities, local government units, government owned and controlled corporation on money payments made to private individuals, corporations, partnerships, associations and other juridical/artificial entities as required under RA Nos. 1051, 7649, 8241, 8424 and 9337; (b) payors to non-residents receiving income subject to value-added tax; (c) payors to VAT registered taxpayers receiving income subject to value-added tax; and (d) payors to persons, natural or juridical, subject to percentage tax under Sec. 116 of the Tax Code, if the taxpayer-payee opts to remit his percentage tax through the withholding and remittance of the same by the withholding agent-payor which option is manifested by filing the “Notice of Availment of the Option to Pay the Tax through the Withholding Process”, copy-furnished the withholding agent-payor and the Revenue District Offices of both the payor and payee.
- Quarterly Remittance Return of Final Income Taxes Withheld on Fringe Benefits Paid to Employees Other than Rank and File (BIR Form No. 1603) for the 4th quarter of 2016 -- This return shall be filed and paid on or before Jan. 10 for non-EFPS filers.
2. January 11, 12, 13, 14 and 15
- Monthly Remittance Return of Income Taxes Withheld on Compensation (BIR Form No. 1601-C);
- Monthly Remittance Returns of Creditable Income taxes Withheld/Expanded (BIR Form No. 1601-E);
- Monthly remittance Return of Final Income Taxes Withheld (BIR Form No. 1601-F); and
- Monthly Remittance Return of Final Income Taxes Withheld on Interest Paid on Deposits and Yield on Deposit Substitutes (BIR Form No. 1602) for the month of December 2016
For EFPS filers, the due date of filing these returns is based on their respective industry groupings but the payment is on or before Jan. 20. On the other hand, for non-EFPS filer, these returns shall be filed and paid on or before Jan. 15.
- Quarterly Remittance Return of Final Income Taxes Withheld on Fringe Benefits Paid to Employees Other than rank and File (BIR Form No. 1603) for the 4th quarter of 2016 -- This return should be filed and paid on or before Jan. 15 for EFPS filers.
- Submission of Loose-leaf books of accounts -- The deadline for submission of loose-leaf bound books of accounts for taxable year ended Dec. 31, 2016 is on Jan. 15.
3. January 20
- Renewal of Local Government Unit (LGU) registration -- The annual renewal of business registration with the LGU include, among others, payments of local business tax (LBT), mayor’s permit fee, sanitary inspection fee, garbage fee, building inspection fee, electrical inspection fee, mechanical inspection fee, plumbing inspection fee, fire inspection fee, personnel fee, business plate registration fee, and other charges imposed by the different LGUs.
This renewal is due on or before Jan. 20. However, companies may opt to pay this on instalment basis within the first 20 days of each quarter.
- Monthly Value Added Tax Declaration (BIR Form No. 2550M) and Monthly Percentage Tax Return (BIR Form No. 2551M) -- for non-EFPS filers, this return shall be filed and paid on or before Jan. 20. However, for EFPS filers, the filing is due depending on the industry groupings but the payment is due on Jan. 25.
4. January 25
Quarterly VAT Return (BIR Form No. 255Q) -- this return shall be filed and paid on or before Jan. 25, whether EFPS or non-EFPS filer.
5. January 30
- Submission of computerized books of account -- The deadline for submission of computerized books of accounts and other accounting records in CD-R, DVD-R, or other optical media for the year ended Dec. 31, 2016 is on Jan. 30.
- Submission of enhanced inventory list -- The submission of the annual inventory list shall cover companies maintaining inventory of stock-in-trade, raw materials, goods in process, supplies and other goods such as manufacturing, wholesaling, distributing/retailing sectors including real estate dealers/developers, service companies, e.g., construction companies, building contractors, etc. This is due on Jan. 30. The annual inventory list shall be submitted in hard and soft copies using the prescribed format illustrated in Revenue Memorandum Circular (RMC) No. 57-2015.
It is important to ensure that the amount of ending inventory declared in the list can be reconciled with the amount reported in the annual income tax return.
6. January 31
- Annual Information Return of Income Taxes Withheld on Compensation and Final Withholding Taxes (BIR Form No. 1604-CF) -- this annual information return and alphabetical list must be submitted on or before Jan. 31 in which the compensation payment and other income payments subject to final withholding taxes were paid or accrued. The alphalist is required to be attached as an integral part of BIR Form 1604-CF under certain prescribed modes.
- BIR Annual Registration Fee (BIR Form No. 0605) -- this annual registration fee should be paid on or before Jan. 31, whether manual filing, eBIR Form, or EFPS.
- Employer’s Certificate of Compensation/Tax Withheld For Compensation Payment With or Without Tax Withheld (BIR Form No. 2316) -- Employees must be provided a copy of their corresponding BIR Form 2316 on or before Jan. 31.
In addition, in cases covered by substituted filing, the employer shall furnish each employee with original copy of BIR Form 2316 and file/submit to the BIR the duplicate copy not later than Feb. 28.
- List of regular suppliers of goods and services by the Top 20,000 private corporations for the 2nd semester of 2016 -- the filing of this 2nd semestral list of regular suppliers of goods and services, using the prescribed format, is due on Jan. 31.
The date for filing and payment shall be the exact dates stated in the law or regulations. If the deadline falls on a Saturday, Sunday or a holiday, the appropriate deadline for the filing and payment shall fall on the next business day.
The above listed details are just some of the common filing requirements for this month. Needless to say, failure to meet the due dates shall result in unwelcome New Year’s penalties. Let us start the taxable year 2017 compliant and wishing everyone a penalty-free 2017.
Nikkolai F. Canceran is a senior manager of the Tax Advisory and Compliance division of Punongbayan & Araullo.
As published in BusinessWorld dated 03 January 2017
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