Author: Bong Corpuz & Co. CPAs

  • Who’s Helping SME’s in the Philippines (another list)

    Here is another list of who are helping  small business / SMEs in the Philippines. These are microfinance institutions that may be of help to you and your businesses.  Here they are: ABS – CBN BAYAN MICROFINANCE FOUNDATION, INC. 2nd floor Calderon Bldg., 827 EDSA Quezon City 1100 9293273 (local 241); 9279365 Contact Raul I.E.

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  • FYI: BIR RR No. 3-2010

    Last last week, I was reading the latest issuance of the BIR’s  Revenue Regualtions (RR) No. 3-2010.  And this is all about an additional taxpayers requirement.  Yep yep, the new regulation is requiring all taxpayers to submit a “Statement of Management Responsibility” using, let me repeat, using the BIR required format.  Wow, and mind you

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  • Eight (8) Steps to creating business plan

    I found this article talking about simple steps in creating a business plan.  The steps are general in perspective but interesting.  So here goes, an addition to your knowledge bank. Your business plan is like a road map to long-term success. Have you ever been in a situation where you didn’t have a map to

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  • Starting a Business: Procedures

    It is a MUST to obtain necessary registrations and permits if you would like to open a business in the Philippines.  While all Local Government Units (LGUs) share the same legal and institutional framework, however interpretation and implementation varies from one city or municipality to another.  Thus, steps or the business application procedure per se

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  • Atchara Business

    Last December 2009, yep, yep, last Christmas season, I accompanied my grandma to her cousin’s house in Project 6, Quezon City.  Inside Tita Cora’s house, I noticed that several bottles of pickled green papaya, carrots, raisins, plus ampalaya stripped were neatly organized atop of a table; yes it’s “atchara”. Other bottles, that size of small ladies

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