What we do
Full-service assurance, tax, and advisory.
From statutory audit to strategic advisory, our engagements are built on rigor, ethics, and a genuine understanding of your business.
Audit & Assurance
- Financial statements audit
- Internal audit
- Review of historical financial statements
- Review of prospective financial statements
Tax Services
- Tax assessment
- Tax compliance health check
- Tax due diligence
- Tax opinions and rulings
- Tax planning and structuring
- Estate and donor’s tax compliance
Accounting Services
- Bookkeeping
- Compilation of financial statements
- Account reconciliations
- Internal accounting
Advisory & Business Consultancy
- Business policy making
- Financial due diligence
- Risk management
- Strategic management
Corporate Services
- Business registration
- Corporate structuring
- Corporate secretarial
- Payroll processing and compliance
Other Services
- Agreed-upon procedures
- Company profiling & loan application assistance
- Estate planning · Retirement planning and funding
- Contract review · Collection services
- Real estate services and other allied services
Who we serve
Industries we serve.
The reporting framework, the controls, and the regulator differ by sector. Our engagements cover twelve.
Beyond Tacloban City
Engagements run from wherever you are.
Clients elsewhere in Eastern Visayas, in Metro Manila and in other regions work with us without travelling to our office.
Documents turned over online
Records, schedules and supporting documents are exchanged through shared online folders, and reports are delivered the same way.
Meetings by video call
Planning, status and closing meetings are held by video call. Visits are scheduled where the work requires them, such as an inventory count.
Electronic filing
Returns and reports are filed through the online systems of the BIR, the SEC and the other agencies that accept them.
Our Partners
Led by credentialed professionals.
Four partners with national distinctions, international practice, and deep roots in the academe.
Placed 2nd in the May 2018 CPA licensure examination. Trained in assurance and taxation at one of the largest professional services firms in the world before returning to Region VIII, and has since audited MSMEs through to large corporations. Assists taxpayers through BIR audits and assessments. Teaches audit, assurance, and taxation, and authored a CPA reviewer book on auditing.
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Audit and Professional Practice Director at one of the world’s Top 4 professional services firms, serving in its London, New York, and Philippine offices. Sat three consecutive terms on the Audit and Assurance Standards Council, served as National President of PICPA for FY 22-23, and sits on the council of the ASEAN Federation of Accountants. Led Saint Paul School of Professional Studies as President for more than a decade.
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Placed 1st in the May 2018 CPA licensure examination and 10th in the December 2023 Bar. Practice centres on tax compliance and health checks, assistance with tax audits, corporate structuring, and tariff and customs compliance. Began his career as a risk and compliance officer, internal auditor, and data privacy officer. Lectures on taxation and commercial law and reviews for the CPA board examinations.
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More than half a decade in the public practice of accountancy, auditing MSMEs and large corporations across retail and trade, educational institutions, non-profits, importation, and services. Began as an audit associate at a Manila firm. Works in full-cycle accounting and financial reporting with variance and ratio analysis. School accountant and part-time lecturer at SPSPS, and treasurer of PICPA–Tacloban Chapter.
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AAC Tax Code.
The National Internal Revenue Code of 1997 as it currently stands — consolidated by the firm to carry the TRAIN Law, the CREATE Act, the Ease of Paying Taxes Act, the VAT on Digital Services Act, CREATE MORE, the CMEPA and the amendatory laws in force to 1 August 2026, with a footnote at every provision naming the law that changed it.
The printed edition runs to 240 pages and carries the same text, footnotes and references as the browser below. Every section here shows the page it sits on in that PDF, so a citation taken from the screen matches the one taken from the book.
TITLE III — ESTATE AND DONOR’S TAXES › CHAPTER I. ESTATE TAX
SEC. 85. Gross Estate
The value of the gross estate of the decedent shall be determined by including the value at the time of his death of all property, real or personal, tangible or intangible, wherever situated: Provided, however, That in the case of a nonresident decedent who at the time of his death was not a citizen of the Philippines, only that part of the entire gross estate which is situated in the Philippines shall be included in his taxable estate.
(A) Decedent’s Interest. — To the extent of the interest therein of the decedent at the time of his death;
(B) Transfer in Contemplation of Death. — To the extent of any interest therein of which the decedent has at any time made a transfer, by trust or otherwise, in contemplation of or intended to take effect in possession or enjoyment at or after death, or of which he has at any time made a transfer, by trust or otherwise, under which he has retained for his life or for any period which does not in fact end before his death (1) the possession or enjoyment of, or the right to the income from the property, or (2) the right, either alone or in conjunction with any person, to designate the person who shall possess or enjoy the property or the income therefrom; except in case of a bona fide sale for an adequate and full consideration in money or money’s worth.
(C) Revocable Transfer. —
(1) To the extent of any interest therein, of which the decedent has at any time made a transfer (except in case of bona fide sale for an adequate and full consideration in money or money’s worth) by trust or otherwise, where the enjoyment thereof was subject at the date of his death to any change through the exercise of a power (in whatever capacity exercisable) by the decedent alone or by the decedent in conjunction with any other person (without regard to when or from what source the decedent acquired such power), to alter, amend, revoke or terminate, or where any such power is relinquished in contemplation of the decedent’s death.
(2) For the purpose of this Subsection, the power to alter, amend or revoke shall be considered to exist on the date of the decedent’s death even though the exercise of the power is subject to a precedent giving of notice or even though the alteration, amendment or revocation takes effect only on the expiration of a stated period after the exercise of the power, whether or not on or before the date of the decedent’s death notice has been given or the power has been exercised. In such cases, proper adjustment shall be made representing the interests which would have been excluded from the power if the decedent had lived, and for such purpose if the notice has not been given or the power has not been exercised on or before the date of his death, such notice shall be considered to have been given, or the power exercised, on the date of his death.
(D) Property Passing Under General Power of Appointment. — To the extent of any property passing under a general power of appointment exercised by the decedent: (1) by will, or (2) by deed executed in contemplation of, or intended to take effect in possession or enjoyment at, or after his death, or (3) by deed under which he has retained for his life or any period not ascertainable without reference to his death or for any period which does not in fact end before his death (a) the possession or enjoyment of, or the right to the income from, the property, or (b) the right, either
alone or in conjunction with any person, to designate the persons who shall possess or enjoy the property or the income therefrom; except in case of a bona fide sale for an adequate and full consideration in money or money’s worth.
(E) Proceeds of Life Insurance. — To the extent of the amount receivable by the estate of the deceased, his executor, or administrator, as insurance under policies taken out by the decedent upon his own life, irrespective of whether or not the insured retained the power of revocation, or to the extent of the amount receivable by any beneficiary designated in the policy of insurance, except when it is expressly stipulated that the designation of the beneficiary is irrevocable.
(F) Prior Interests. — Except as otherwise specifically provided therein, Subsections (B), (C) and (E) of this Section shall apply to the transfers, trusts, estates, interests, rights, powers and relinquishment of powers, as severally enumerated and described therein, whether made, created, arising, existing, exercised or relinquished before or after the effectivity of this Code.
(G) Transfers for Insufficient Consideration. — If any one of the transfers, trusts, interests, rights or powers enumerated and described in Subsections (B), (C) and (D) of this Section is made, created, exercised or relinquished for a consideration in money or money’s worth, but is not a bona fide sale for an adequate and full consideration in money or money’s worth, there shall be included in the gross estate only the excess of the fair market value, at the time of death, of the property otherwise to be included on account of such transaction, over the value of the consideration received therefor by the decedent.
(H) Capital of the Surviving Spouse. — The capital of the surviving spouse of a decedent shall not, for the purpose of this Chapter, be deemed a part of his or her gross estate.