Center for Global Best Practices

The National Privacy Commission’s (NPC) campaign to inspect the compliance of all companies to the Data Privacy Act (DPA) across industries is now going full blast! With the recent release of the NPC’s Guidelines on Compliance Checks contained in Memorandum Circular No. 18-02 dated September 20, 2018, there is no reason for companies not to comply with this regulation. Ignoring this compliance issue will expose your organization and management to far greater risk! Failure to comply to this regulation can result to criminal prosecution up to 6 years imprisonment and civil liabilities for accountable officers, regulatory sanctions to suspend business transactions, and penalties of up to Php 5 million. With the clamor of many organizations to address their compliance issues, the Center for Global Best Practices will run a training program entitled, Compliance to the IRR of the Data Privacy Act & Implementation Best Practices to be held on Wednesday, December 5, 2018 at ...

Experience has taught many erring public officials that ignorance of the updated procurement law cost them their jobs, perpetual disqualification from holding a government position, forfeiture of retirement pay, damages, jail time and irreparable negative reputation that is painful for them and their families.  This has also led to millions of lost business opportunities for the private-sector due to questionable process after investing huge amount of time, money and effort in winning a government project only to be invalidated afterwards. With the advocacy of educating the general public, the Center for Global Best Practices will have a rerun of its special program entitled, “ What You Must Know About the 2016 Procurement Law IRR ,” to be held Thursday and Friday, September 27 & 28, 2018 at the EDSA Shangri-La Hotel, Mandaluyong City, Philippines. This learning event is accredited by DILG Local Government Academy. The biggest buyer and consumer of infrastructure, go...

There are over 3,780 large taxpayers and many are not compliant to the Bureau of Internal Revenue Regulation 9-2009 requiring large taxpayers to have a Computerized Accounting System (CAS). This becomes relevant also to the top 500 medium-sized provincial taxpayers in every revenue district which has the equivalent classification of a large taxpayer. To help medium and large taxpayers regarding their compliance issues, the Center for Global Best Practices is launching a training entitled, “ BIR Computerized Accounting System Compliance for Medium and Large Taxpayers ,” scheduled on  Thursday, September 20, 2018 at the Quest Hotel Cebu, Cebu City , Philippines. With the activation of the BIR special task force called  Computerized Systems Evaluation Team (CSET)  to monitor medium and large taxpayers, one can expect more active campaigns and stricter enforcement from the tax authorities. The lecture will include discussions on the regulations and rulings, present...

There are over 3,780+ large taxpayers and many are not compliant to the Bureau of Internal Revenue Regulation 9-2009 requiring large taxpayers to have a Computerized Accounting System (CAS). This becomes relevant also to the top 500 medium-sized provincial taxpayers in every revenue district which has the equivalent classification of a large taxpayer.  To help medium and large taxpayers regarding their compliance issues, the Center for Global Best Practices is launching a program entitled, “ BIR Computerized Accounting System Compliance for Medium and Large Taxpayers ” scheduled on Thursday, June 21, 2018 at the EDSA Shangri-La Hotel, Mandaluyong City, Philippines. With the BIR setting up a special task force called Computerized Systems Evaluation Team (CSET) to monitor large taxpayers, one can expect more enforcement from the tax authorities. The lecture will include discussions on the regulations and rulings, presentation of the challenges of getting BIR CAS accredita...