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...

Delays in construction permits and clearances arise due to the conflicting interpretation of the Building Code of the Philippines among the government authoriti es, technical professionals, property owners and developers. It is time set the records straight! The Center for Global Best Practices will host a training entitled, “ Property Developers’ Guide to the Building Code IRR of the Philippines ” to be held on Wednesday & Thursday, March 20 & 21, 2019 at the EDSA Shangri-La Hotel, Mandaluyong City, Philippines. This two-day program is designed to provide a clear guideline to the 2005 IRR of the Building Code of the Philippines. This training is to help different stakeholders align their referral codes in architecture, structure, plumbing, electronics, sanitation, electrical, mechanical and interior design to the building code. Attendees will learn valuable insights on how to fast track building permits, updates on the latest government issuances, memoranda, and decided...

"Filipinos are no stranger to the English language." In 2016, Philippines ranked 13 th on the list of the best non-native English speakers in the world.  However, based on the British Councils’ International English Language Testing System (IELTS), there is still a massive need to work on the way Filipinos express themselves on paper. Poor writing skills can take a toll in all forms of business transactions which requires written communication. To enhance one’s writing skills, the Center for Global Best Practices will host a one-day training entitled, Write Right for Positive Results: Best Practices Guide to One-Page Business Letters, Memos and Reports to be held on Thursday, November 29, 2018 at the Manila Marriott Hotel, Pasay City, Philippines. There is no second chance in making a first impression in business writing! Expand your business writing skills by learning and re-learning what makes an outstanding business letter, memo, proposal or report that wi...

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...