Center for Global Best Practices

In the light of the "Recent Financial Crisis", some exporters and importers deliberately include discrepancies in their Letters of Credit (LC) documentation to renegotiate the terms and prices of the trade transactions, to the disadvantage of the other party.   To save importers and exporters from falling into pitfalls, tricks, and traps in LC operations, The Center for Global Best Practices is conducting a seminar called “Best Practices in Letters of Credit” on May 5 & 6, 2011 at the New World Hotel in Makati City, Philippines.  This seminar will teach participants the practical steps in issuing proper LCs and how they work, what to do to avoid pitfalls, and actions to take in cases of discrepancies. It will also cover new regulations (and the application of UCP 600) involving Letters of Credit.  This special program will also present easy-to-understand case studies and samples to highlight best practices pointers and tips, including topics such as cost saving areas

Corporate housekeeping refers to the multitude of services that a lawyer and a corporate secretary need to perform for a corporate entity. It is what every corporation needs to do and to know to function well. Since this is a very important aspect that corporations need to understand and apply, the Center for Global Best Practices (CGBP) has come up with a very valuable program to help them perform better. If your goal is to function better as a corporate secretary, you are invited to participate in CGBP's  "Best Practices in Corporate Housekeeping" seminar to be held on April 28 and 29, 2011 at the EDSA Shangri-La Hotel in Mandaluyong, City, Metro Manila. This MCLE-accredited seminar will be a 1.5-day session. The seminar will equip board directors and lawyers the knowledge and professional skills on how to be an effective corporate secretary and how to perform the functions of corporate housekeeping. Whether you are a lawyer servicing a corporate client, a

Are you an aspiring lawyer who wants to make it to the top in law school? Maximize your investment in time, money and effort by learning from the best! To help you move your way to the top, the Center for Global Best Practices will conduct a seminar-workshop titled " How to Excel in Law School " on April 16 and 17, 2011 at the Pearl Manila Hotel in Ermita, Manila.  This pre-law program is uniquely tailored to meet the goal of surviving and excelling in law school as well as topping the bar exam thereafter. This unique course is specially designed to teach you all the proven techniques on how to really excel in class. Have a great start in law school, be ahead of the game and have a real edge by knowing the best kept secrets and study techniques of no. 1 bar topnotchers and valedictorians who will share their rich experiences on how to be the best. The two-day seminar-workshop will showcase the best practices in digesting and analyzing complex laws and

The Center for Global Best Practices will be conducting a seminar on “ Best Practices in Manualization of School HR Policies ” on April 7 and 8, 2011 at the Peninsula Manila in Makati City, Philippines.   This special program is a comprehensive guide for school owners, administrators and HR practitioners on how to create properly and systematically a working manual and handbook of HR policies that is aligned with existing education and labor laws as well as with CHED and DEPED regulations. Designing a manual and a handbook are two of the most difficult and biggest challenges of schools. This program can make it easy for you. Attending this will save you precious money and time to put it together. This seminar will equip you with the right tools, templates and best practices techniques to get it accomplished. For those with existing manuals and handbooks, it’s important to update it with the new regulations. Schools that are serious about institutionalizing and professionalizing their

Are you looking forward to maximize your tax savings? If you are a multinational company doing business in the Philippines  or a Philippine company doing business in another country, there are a lot of ways to do it using tax treaties.   In a seminar called " Maximizing Your Tax Savings Using Tax Treaties " organized by the Center for Global Best Practices, you will learn to use these tax treaties as a way to maximize your tax savings for the benefit of your company and your expatriates assigned overseas. This seminar will be held on March 30 and 31, 2011 at the New World Hotel in Makati. Topics include territories, persons, and taxes covered by the treaties; relief from double taxation; transfer pricing; how to save taxes on your business profits, real and personal properties, investment income including dividends, interest and royalties; employment and personal services income of executives and other top-level officials; and fees of directors, artists, athletes, traine

Good news to all businessmen who really want to succeed in their PPP projects! The Center for Global Best practices is conducting the second series of the seminar in " Public-Private Partnerships in BOT & JV Projects ". This event will take place on March 17 & 18, 2011 at the EDSA Shangri-La Hotel in Mandaluyong City, Philippines. In Series 1 of our PPP (Public-Private Partnerships) seminar, we taught you how to structure your deals effectively. In this 1.5-day seminar (Series 2), our expert practitioners will teach you how to succeed in your PPP deals by learning how to package feasibility studies, craft the right terms of reference in your bid documents, pursue unsolicited proposals the right way, formulate technical bids, compute financial bids, prepare for bidding and negotiations, learn the auditing rules and monitor project implementation. We will provide you with model PPP contract provisions, useful templates and present to you best practices tips, techni

A new set of rules on INCOTERMS  (International Commercial Terms) -  shipping terms used for land, air and sea - in all trade transactions have been effective since January 2011. This will be implemented globally. If you are an exporter, importer, trader, banker, insurer or involved in carriers and freight forwarders, you need to be aware of these changes because they will have a huge impact on trade documentation and critical implications for your business. Especially, this concerns the carriage of goods between seller/buyer, the export and import clearance requirements, the allocation of costs between seller & buyer, the acquisition of cargo insurance, and the assumption of risks for loss and damage. If you are able to understand these rules and incorporate their use in sales contracts, you will avoid uncertainties, errors, and costly mistakes in the interpretations created in a trade transaction. These rules are for those involved in international trade transactions and for

Is your 2010 financial statement already aligned with the new accounting rules for SMEs ? If not, then you should start working on it because the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) will be strictly checking financial reports of SMEs (corporations with assets of P3M to P350M and liabilities of P3M to P250M) for the first time in April 2011. Good news! To help corporations who have not yet adopted the new standards, the Center for Global Best Practices will be conducting the last run of the CPE-accredited seminar entitled "New Accounting  Rules for Small and Medium Entities (SMEs)". This will save you from SEC penalties and costly reworks for your financial report. You can catch the seminar on March 4, 2011, 9 am to 5 pm at the Peninsula Manila. This seminar will feature Atty. Ma. Gracia Casals-Diaz, CPA who is a general accountant of the Securities and Exchange Commission.  Her office is in-charge of reviewing all financial reports of SME corporations to ensure