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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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Behind the Numbers: People of P&A Grant Thornton
Discover the inspiring stories of the individuals who make up our vibrant community. From seasoned veterans to fresh faces, the Purple Tribe is a diverse team united by a shared passion.
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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.
Privacy Statement | P&A Grant Thornton
- Table of Contents
- I. Introduction
- II. Definition of Terms
- III. Data Covered in the Policy
- IV. Collection and Processing of Personal Data
- V. Security Measures
- VI. Data Breaches
- VII. Rights of Data Subjects
- VIII. Data Protection Officer; Inquiries and Notices
- IX. Amendments and Supplements
- X. Schedules
Privacy Statement
P&A Grant Thornton
Privacy Statement
Last updated: 30 August 2024
This Privacy statement explains what information we gather about you, what we use it for, and who we give that information to. It also sets out your rights in relation to your information and who you can contact for more information or queries. Click on the links in the Table of Contents for more detailed sections of this Privacy statement.
About P&A Grant Thornton
P&A Grant Thornton is the Philippine member firm of Grant Thornton International Ltd (GTIL). ‘Grant Thornton’ refers to the brand under which the Grant Thornton member firms provide assurance, tax, and advisory services to clients and/or refers to one or more member firms, as the context requires. GTIL and each member firm of GTIL are separate legal entities.
P&A Grant Thornton complies with the Philippine Data Privacy Act of 2012 and is committed to protecting your privacy and to ensuring that you continue to trust P&A Grant Thornton with your personal data. When you interact with us, you may share or provide information with us that allows the identification of you as an individual (e.g., name, email, address, telephone number, etc.). This is known as personal data.
Please read the following statement; it will help you to understand how we use your personal data. We may change our privacy statement at any time without giving you notice, so please check it each time you visit our website.
Why we collect personal data
To improve our services to our various stakeholders—including, but not limited to, media partners, suppliers, internship and job applicants, prospective and existing clients, P&A Grant Thornton Academy seminar participants, and P&A Grant Thornton employees and alumni—it is important that we collect, use, process, and analyze your personal data when it is reasonable and necessary. In particular, we are using your information to:
- Manage your stakeholder/client relationship and provide services timely and efficiently;
- Send client communications, such as tax and accounting alerts, electronic publications, invitations to client networking events, and client satisfaction surveys; and
- Send seminar invitations and updates.
The information you submit will be used to manage your request and to customize and improve this website and related services offered to you. You may at any time request that we discontinue sending you promotional emails or other communications generated in response to your provision of personal information through our website.
What types of personal data do we collect
We log your Internet Protocol (IP) address in order to receive and send information from and to you over the internet. To ensure that this website is well managed and to facilitate improved navigation, we may also use cookies (small text files stored in a user’s browser) to collect aggregate data.
When you visit our website, make an inquiry, order publications, register for an event, or request more information, you may be asked to provide some personal data, such as your name, address, telephone number, and email address. In the event you decide to provide personal data, this policy will apply.
We do not seek sensitive information (e.g., data relating to race or ethnic origin, religious beliefs, criminal record, physical or mental health, or sexual orientation) from visitors.
Where we get these personal data
There are several ways that we may obtain your personal data. Most of the personal data we have are those that you have given us yourself. You provide personal information when you:
- Inquire about our services by filling out our website contact form
- Reserve slots for our seminars through our online registration forms
- Get in touch with us via telephone or email to ask about something
- Apply for a job or internship with us
- Offline interactions with us, including seminar registration sheets.
We also collect information from commercially or publicly available sources like published directories and public documents.
How we store and transmit your personal data
Your personal data will be stored in our customer relationship management system (CRM). This system is primarily located within the jurisdiction of the Philippines. However, to ensure the reliability, stability, and speed of our CRM, our cloud-based servers may be located in countries outside the Philippines, such as Singapore.
We may also store and maintain any consent that you provide, including but not limited to, postings on social media applications and services that we may provide through our website.
How long we keep your personal data
We will store and retain personal data for such period as may be required by applicable law, or as may be needed to enable us to fully and efficiently provide services to you.
How we use your personal data
We use your personal data to provide information to you or your organization.
We may also use your personal data to carry out research about our visitors' demographics, interests, and behavior. We do this to better understand our visitors. This research is compiled and analyzed on an aggregated and anonymous basis.
When you give us personal data, those data may be sent electronically to servers anywhere in the world and may be used, stored, and processed anywhere in the world.
Whenever and wherever we collect, process, or use personal data, we take steps to ensure that it is treated securely and in accordance with the Philippine Data Privacy Act of 2012 and Grant Thornton International privacy policy.
To whom might we disclose or transfer your personal data
We may pass your personal data to anyone who needs the data within P&A Grant Thornton in order to fulfil your request for our services. Your personal data may also be passed on to GTIL, which is based in the United Kingdom, for the purposes of website analytics and global benchmarks.
Except as set out above, we will not disclose your personal information unless we are obliged to do so or allowed to do so, by law, or where we need to do so in order to run our business (for instance where we outsource services or other people to process data for us).
By providing personal information on our website, you consent to this transfer and/or storage of personal information across borders. We ensure that a standard of protection is accorded to your personal information transferred in accordance with applicable laws.
Cookies
Please refer to our Cookie Policy.
How we protect your personal data
The integrity, confidentiality, and security of your information are important to us. We strictly enforce our privacy policy within the Firm and we have implemented technological, organizational, and physical security measures designed to protect your personal data from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. We put in safeguards such as:
- Keeping and protecting your information using a secure server behind a firewall, encryption, and security controls;
- Restricting access to your information only to qualified and authorized personnel who hold your information with strict confidentiality.
We will retain your personal information for as long as the information is reasonably required to fulfill the collection of the information or until you request that we delete that information.
How you can access your personal data
Visitors who would like to request access to their information, to update their details, or unsubscribe from communications should contact the Markets Group using the Contact Us page. In all cases, we will treat requests to access information or change information in accordance with applicable legal requirements.
How you can contact us if you have data privacy concerns
You have rights in relation to your personal data under the Data Privacy Act of 2012, which includes the right to object to the processing, the right to access your data, the right to modify inaccurate data, and the right to the erasure or blocking of data.
If you wish to access your personal information in our records, or you think that such personal information we have of you is incomplete, not updated, or inaccurate, you may get in touch with our Data Privacy Officer through the contact details provided below:
Data Protection Officer
19th Floor Tower 1, The Enterprise Center
6766 Ayala Avenue, Makati City 1200
Philippines
Telephone: +632 8988 2288 extension 360
Read the P&A Grant Thornton Data Privacy Policy:
http://www.grantthornton.com.ph/privacy-policy/
