Center for Global Best Practices

Update yourself and your organization with the latest Supreme Court decisions, all recent BIR revenue regulations, memorandum orders and circulars relevant to business owners and taxpayers covering the period from January to December 2019! The Center for Global Best Practices will be holding a one-day training entitled, “ New Year Tax Updates and Remedies ” on Friday, January 10, 2020 at the Marriott Grand Ballroom, Resorts World Complex, Pasay City, Philippines. Be in the know and take advantage of the wealth of information in this once-a-year event! This training will teach you and your organization all the best practices to maximize the benefits granted by law – ensuring compliance, minimizing and avoiding unnecessary tax exposures, assessments and penalties from the taxing authorities. This program will also give you a refresher on TRAIN Law. Knowledge of this will help you find better ways to build your strategies on tax minimization or optimization of savings. Whet

Who inherits what and how much? What needs to be done to disinherit someone entitled to a share of the family’s wealth? How do you know a will is valid? How much share can extended family relatives inherit when the giver doesn’t have children?    To answer these and other questions about inheritance, the Center for Global Best Practices is launching a pioneering program entitled, Inheritance and Disinheritance Law of the Philippines to be held on Thursday, December 5, 2019 at the Marriott Grand Ballroom, Resorts World Complex, Pasay City, Philippines. This one-day training will provide you and your family a comprehensive understanding of the general principles as well as solutions to specific cases and issues faced by grandparents, parents, children (legitimate, illegitimate, adopted), immediate family members, other relatives and stakeholders who will benefit from an inheritance. This special lecture will also include relevant and recent Philippine Supreme Court rulings on

The Science of Developing Mental Toughness in Your Health, Work, and Life Have you ever wondered what makes someone a good athlete? Or a good leader? Or a good parent? Why do some people accomplish their goals while others fail? What makes the difference? Usually we answer these questions by talking about the talent of top performers. He must be the smartest scientist in the lab. She’s faster than everyone else on the team. He is a brilliant business strategist. But I think we all know there is more to the story than that. In fact, when you start looking into it, your talent and your intelligence don’t play nearly as big of a role as you might think. The research studies that I have found say that intelligence only accounts for 30% of your achievement — and that’s at the extreme upper end. What makes a bigger impact than talent or intelligence? Mental toughness. Research is starting to reveal that your mental toughness — or “ grit ” as they call it — plays a more i

Many boards tend to meet one or twice a year only for ensuring paper compliance to the Securities and Exchange Commission’s mandated requirements. Time has come to transform and activate your “paper board” into a highly functional and effective board that can bring value to your organization!  The Center for Global Best Practices is launching an SEC-accredited program entitled, Best Practices on How to Build a Working Board to be held on Wednesday, December 4, 2019 at the Marriott Grand Ballroom, Resorts World Complex, Pasay City, Philippines. This program is highly recommended for founders, businessowners, board directors who would like to have a dynamic and highly effective board. Many start-up founders and families in business are often at a loss as to how their corporate boards can truly add value to their businesses. This one-day program will guide participants on how to run their board and be effective in their participation in board meetings and other board-led in

Joint Ventures (JVs) are increasingly becoming popular as a faster and easier approach towards implementing infrastructure, development and social service-related projects at the national and local government levels. To guide the private sector on how to JV with the government and vice versa, the Center for Global Best Practices will host its yearly training entitled, “ Business and Public Officials’ Guide on Howto Joint Venture Effectively with the Government ” to be held Friday, November 29, 2019 at the Manila Marriott Hotel, Pasay City Philippines.  To accelerate more economic growth through Public-Private Partnerships, the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) released the 2013 revised JV Guidelines applicable for government-owned and controlled corporations, government instrumentalities, government financial institutions, and state universities and colleges.  For local government units (LGUs), they are governed by their own JV ordinances. The authority of LGUs

In today’s complex and competitive business environment, analyzing financial statements are not enough. Oftentimes, business managers and executives need to determine the key financial performance metrics to make important decisions for their businesses.  While financial analysis makes sense, the data may still be insufficient for the management and for the board of directors to afford the value-adding attributes that are required to strategically position a business and to take advantage of the opportunities for growth. With this, the Center for Global Best Practices (CGBP) will host a pioneering program entitled, " Going Beyond Financial Analysis: Best Practices in Managing Financial Performance" to be held on Wednesday & Thursday, November 27 & 28, 2019 at the Marriott Grand Ballroom, Resorts World Complex, Pasay City, Philippines. This two-day program will go beyond the technical and routine financial analytical ratios that can be easily derived