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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2nd Floor, Rubber Tree Building, Brgy. 77, 611 BLISS – Fatima Diversion Road, Tacloban City, Philippines 6500
Suite 302, F. Mendoza Complex, Sto. Niño St., Brgy. 28, Tacloban City 6500
0995 398 9482
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Services
Advisory & Business Consultancy in Tacloban City
Practical advice for growing and scaling — grounded in numbers, delivered with strategy.
What the service covers
- Business policy making. Drafting and revision of accounting, finance and operating policies and manuals, so that practice is written down and consistently applied.
- Financial due diligence. An examination of a business being acquired, invested in or financed: quality of earnings, working capital, debt, commitments and contingencies.
- Risk management. Identification and assessment of business risks, and the design or evaluation of the internal controls that answer them.
- Strategic management. Business plans, budgets, forecasts and feasibility studies that put figures behind a proposed direction.
Standards that apply
Advisory engagements are governed by the Code of Ethics for Professional Accountants in the Philippines, including its requirements on objectivity and confidentiality. Where an engagement calls for assurance, it is performed under the Philippine Standards on Assurance Engagements. Where the client and a third party need specific procedures performed and the findings reported, it is performed as an agreed-upon procedures engagement under PSRS 4400 (Revised).
Who needs it
- Owners planning an expansion, a new branch or a new line of business.
- Buyers and investors who need an independent view of a target before committing.
- Boards and owners formalising how a growing or family-run business is governed and controlled.
- Borrowers asked by a bank for projections or a feasibility study.
- Regulated entities strengthening their risk management and internal control.
How an engagement runs
- Scoping. We agree the question to be answered, the information available, the deliverable and the timetable, and record them in an engagement letter.
- Fact-finding. Interviews with management, a walk-through of the processes concerned, and a review of the records.
- Analysis. The figures are tested and the findings set against the question the engagement was meant to answer.
- Draft report. Findings and recommendations are discussed with you before they are finalised.
- Final report. The written report is delivered, and where agreed we assist with putting the recommendations into practice.
What a report contains
Every report states the question it was asked to answer, the information it relied on, the work performed and the limits of that work. Findings are separated from recommendations, so that a reader can tell what was observed from what is advised. Figures are traced to their source, and the assumptions behind any forecast or projection are stated so that they can be challenged.
- Policy manuals are delivered as working documents, with the forms and approval limits that go with each policy.
- Due diligence reports set out the adjustments to reported earnings and net assets, with the matters a buyer may want covered in the purchase agreement.
- Risk and control reviews list each risk, the control that answers it, and the gaps found.
- Plans and feasibility studies carry the projected financial statements and the assumptions on which they rest.
Frequently asked questions
What does a financial due diligence report contain?
The scope is set by the transaction. It commonly covers the quality of reported earnings, normal working capital, debt and debt-like items, tax exposures, and commitments and contingencies that do not appear on the balance sheet.
Our bank has asked for a feasibility study. What will it need?
Usually the project description and cost, the market and operating assumptions, projected financial statements over the term of the loan, and the resulting debt service capacity. The bank’s own checklist governs.
How long does an engagement take?
It depends on the scope and on how quickly information is made available. The timetable is fixed in the engagement letter before work begins.
Is the information we provide kept confidential?
Yes. Confidentiality is a requirement of the Code of Ethics, and the engagement letter states who may receive the report.
Can you advise us if you are also our auditor?
Some advisory services are compatible with an audit and some are not. We assess the threat to independence before accepting either engagement.