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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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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.
‘Go beyond tech to fight cyber attacks’
31 Aug 2021Companies must build a “human firewall” to combat internet-related security issues, as cybersecurity is also a people, and not just a technology, issue.
“People are our first line of defense. It is best to upskill their competence and capabilities on cybersecurity and help them reduce the risk of security breaches,” said Mhycke C. Gallego, Advisory Practice Leader of P&A Grant Thornton, one of the country’s leading audit and professional services firms.
In an increasingly digital world, making employees vigilant against real-life cybersecurity attacks demands more than just complying with information, technology and cyber security training requirements.
To strengthen the human firewall, the organization should undergo a change management process “so people will be able to manage the shift brought about by digitalization, as well as understand its impact to the overall IT governance process,” said Gallego, a certified risk and information systems control (CRISC) and risk management assurance (CRMA) professional.
To enable firms to influence employee behavior and reduce information, technology and cyber security risk at every level of the organization, P&A Grant Thornton introduced Vigil@nt Cybersecurity, an online service platform that helps businesses and organizations design, implement, and monitor their internal cybersecurity awareness and training programs.
The company drew on its own years of experience in running information, technology, and cyber security learning and development sessions for its employees to come up with Vigil@nt Cybersecurity and offer it to clients and partner-organizations.
“At P&A Grant Thornton, we are exposed to having conversations with our clients’ board of directors, senior management, and those in operations as part of our regular work. This enables us to understand their needs at various levels and customize the delivery of cybersecurity learning programs,” said Gallego.
While P&A Grant Thornton is known more for its role as an auditor and business adviser, Gallego said it also conducts information, technology, and security audits to clients. “We have also been providing vulnerability assessments, penetration testing, and technology security assessment and other reviews to our clients. This enables us to bring our wealth of experience, as well as tap from resources within Grant Thornton’s global network, in our interaction with clients.”
Through Vigil@nt Cybersecurity, organizations and enterprises receive up-to-date and relevant cybersecurity awareness content delivered through an online learning and phishing-simulation platform that makes learning more fun, interactive and effective. In designing cybersecurity learning and development sessions, P&A Grant Thornton considers the readiness of the client’s organizational structure (e.g., if a separate cybersecurity unit is present within the company), its risk assessment protocols (i.e., identifying areas exposed to cybersecurity and people who hold critical information) and focus on areas that are critical, and identifies appropriate control activities (business, fraud, technology) and learning intervention.
In the Philippines, Gallego said there is still a gap in promoting cybersecurity awareness. “More matured and technology-enabled companies have more advanced cybersecurity awareness programs. On the other hand, small and medium-scale enterprises, considered the economy’s backbone, may be less aware and their existing processes are perhaps more prone to cybersecurity challenges.”
As published in BusinessMirror, dated 31 August 2021