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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.
Thriving in transition: Enhancing the role of the modern-day CFO
The world, as we know it today, is evolving rapidly at a pace much faster than we could have imagined decades ago. Shifts in market conditions, coupled with socio-political and economic uncertainties, fueled a flurry of changes with regard to how a business should operate to cushion the blow of these factors. The situation was exacerbated by the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. It drove organizations to accelerate their digital transformation programs. What would have taken months of preparations toward full digitalization was done in a matter of weeks.
P&A Grant Thornton believes that the future continues to look promising, and it is important for businesses to adopt the learnings they gleaned from the past two years. Critical to the recovery and expansion efforts of business is the ability and readiness of the Chief Financial Officer to lead his organizations to face the new challenges ahead.
For this reason, P&A Grant Thornton is, once again, collaborating with FINEX Academy in holding the Senior Leadership Program in Finance. Considered as the Masterclass in Finance, the second offering of the program will start on November 3, 2022.
The role of a CFO today
FINEX Academy has examined and studied what they describe as the four roles of the modern-day CFO, i.e. strategist, catalyst, operator and steward, and, on this basis, developed a program that will reinforce the CFO’s skills and competencies.
As key strategists and catalysts, CFOs’ performance and innovation generate both immediate and long-term value for their organization. As stewards, they preserve an organization's reputation by conforming with laws, safeguarding assets and resources, and providing efficient, fast, and accurate financial services. Finally, as operators, they harness talent and empower others around them to create value and safeguard reputation.
For CFOs to achieve all these and more, leadership and training programs aimed at enhancing the existing capabilities of such leaders are non-negotiables in today’s competitive and evolving business landscape. Learning from the experience of other professionals in the same field enhances understanding of best practices.
Grant Thornton-FINEX Masterclass
The Grant Thornton-Finex Senior Leadership in Finance Program is comprised of 12 sessions and covers six modules. Each session will run for three hours with two hours to be conducted by institutional learning partners and a one-hour presentation by a recognized industry expert /finance practitioner.
The masterclass is highly recommended not just for Chief Financial Officers or their equivalents, but for heads of finance and other C-suites officers with finance roles.
The topics to be discussed vary and are comprehensive to include essential information and technical knowledge that every modern Chief Finance Officer can find useful for their daily dealings at work and with stakeholders and clients. These topics include transformational leadership, being a positive influence from the CFO seat, crisis leadership, driving and sustaining your company’s competitive edge, creating value as a CFO, and the CFO’s people role.
Key takeaway
The world is changing at a rapid pace. It is vital that we participate in continuous learning programs to help steer the organizations where we belong toward growth and continuous recovery.
As leaders, it is paramount that we support and promote continuous learning for employees. Not only is this found effective in expanding employee skill sets, promoting retention of valuable knowledge, and generating innovative ideas, but it also boosts employee satisfaction and overall morale.
The masterclass program will be delivered online, and synchronous sessions will be held via Zoom. For more details about the 2022 Senior Leadership in Finance Program, you may reach out to Michael Vinluan, FINEX Executive Director, at mbvinluan@finex.org.ph, or Sarah Hazel Parapara, FINEX Academy Support Staff, at stparapara.finex@gmail.com.
As published in BusinessWorld and The Manila Times, dated 31 October and 02 November 2022