Center for Global Best Practices

According to Ellis Davison, entrepreneur and regular contributor to Macworld & TidBITS, the three most important factors to determine your business success are COST, REVENUE and PROFIT. Your business may show a high revenue, but if your costs are higher, there will be no profit. If capital runs out, your business is destined to declare bankruptcy. Achieve competitive advantage for your organization through cost leadership! The Center for Global Best Practices is launching a two-day training entitled, Best Practices in Managing Cost and Profit to be held on Wednesday and Thursday, March 27 & 28, 2019 at the Manila Marriott Hotel, Pasay City, Philippines. This two-day training seeks to enhance knowledge and skills of CEOs, CFOs, finance directors and managers, comptrollers, financial analysts, budget officers, bookkeepers, entrepreneurs and anyone dealing with managing cost and profit across the value chain of a business. This program will teach you the process of ...

With the intensified campaign of both the National Government and the Commission on Audit (COA) in their thrust towards good governance, there has been a clamor  for a program to address the issue of COA disallowances and to find solutions for those encountering such problems. To help solve your most pressing challenges regarding these, the Center for Global Best Practices is hosting a one-day special program entitled, " Best Practices and Remedies to AvoidCOA Disallowances ", scheduled on Friday, March 22, 2019 at the EDSA Shangri-La Hotel, Mandaluyong City. This program will greatly benefit employees, and public officials of local and national government agencies, government-owned and controlled corporations, public utility companies, as well as private entities dealing with the government. Private entities will learn how to package a project or supply goods and services to ensure that their business deals will not fall under illegal, extravagant, unnecessary and u...

In a survey conducted by the largest accounting firm in the world, PricewaterhouseCoopers, 54% of Philippine companies experienced economic crimes and fraud in the last two years. According to the 2018 Global Economic Crime and Fraud Survey, asset misappropriation (53%) ranked one on the list of economic crimes experienced by companies, followed by business misconduct (38%), procurement fraud (35%) and accounting fraud (29%). Don’t let any of these happen to your organization! To save your companies from millions of preventable losses, the Center for Global Best Practices will host a program entitled, “ Best Practices in Implementing Effective Business Controls ” scheduled on Thursday, August 16, 2018 at the Manila Marriott Hotel, Pasay City, Philippines. This one-day training will teach you the best practices of setting up, maintaining and managing internal control as part of company risk management strategy. Determine how you can improve internal control to boost sustainab...

When do you know it’s time to set an internal audit function for your business? An internal audit group or a person is essential as soon as you start delegating key functions to other people such as finance, cash disbursements and receipts, procurement of inventories, maintenance, and even marketing. Someone has to review if the work is done right and complying with policies and procedures to ensure that no cheating, fraud or abuse is happening.  The Center for Global Best Practices is launching this special CPD-accredited program entitled, “ Best Practices on How to Set Up an Internal Audit System ” on Thursday and Friday, May 19 & 20, 2016 at the EDSA Shangri-La Hotel, Mandaluyong City, Philippines.  For details and a complete list of seminars including Best Practices for Audit Committees, you may log on to www.cgbp.org or contact program leader Lara Magnait via email lara@cgbp.org; Manila landlines 842-7148/ 59 & 556-8968/ 69 or Cebu lines: (032) 512-3106/ 0...