To grow and create value, your company must have the trust of its customers, lenders, and investors.
The integrity of your company’s financial information and the reliability and security of your technology are critical components in garnering this trust and gaining access to global capital markets. Whether you are managing issues associated with globalization, addressing technology vulnerabilities in the connected economy, or looking to assure the fairness of your financial information — SGV & Co. can help.
We have invested substantially in innovating and digitalizing our global risk-based methodology and the related technology-based knowledge and enablers. Our auditors are trained on our digital audit methodology, data analytics and documentation tools.
The methodology is supplemented by comprehensive standards and quality controls that are applicable to every client engagement.
We provide independent assurance on financial and non financial information to meet regulatory and other stakeholder requirements utilizing world-class business process-based methodologies and supporting tools. Our Global Audit Methodology and Documentation Approach is a risk-based approach that focuses on the drivers of the business, the associated risks, and the potential effects on financial statements accounts, and delivers a consistent, high-quality audit anywhere in the world.
We perform agreed-upon procedures, in accordance with relevant professional standards, applied to financial or nonfinancial data to which the accountant and the client and any appropriate third parties have agreed, and to report on factual findings. These agreed-upon procedures reports may include: confirmation of customer balances included in a listing of accounts receivable and reporting on the findings; attendance at a physical inventory count and performance of test counts and reporting on the findings; and recalculation of debt covenants and reporting on the findings.
We provide customized assurance services beyond the traditional external audit scope, such as services on branch project audit, audit of a specific account, and inventory and fixed asset count.
Our services are designed to help you build effective and efficient finance functions and address the issues caused by changing regulatory requirements and market conditions. Through the innovative application of technology and data analytics tools, we can support you with regulatory, governance and accounting issues and attest impacts that result from an audit. Our integrated service offerings and focused sector experience can help you determine, monitor and disclose financial and nonfinancial insights to your stakeholders, upholding the CFO agenda and providing you with insights to support compliance with evolving financial reporting requirements.
We provide assistance in every aspect of the consolidation and reporting process, helping businesses achieve faster, higher quality reporting, control risks and develop their financial acumen. Clients achieve this by standardizing internal controls, reducing dependency on individual employees, reorganizing processes and implementing tools for a fast close process.
Restoring confidence in financial reporting can rebuild market confidence, mitigate the risk of future occurrences and signal to investors, regulators and stakeholders that the company is heading in the right direction. Remediation services is about alleviating financial reporting risk areas, identifying root causes, and implementing corrective actions to reveal and preempt possible pitfalls. With our knowledge of accounting and reporting, process standardizing and leading services, our remediation teams can help find ways to reduce deficiencies that might affect the timely production and quality of financial reports.
We support companies in the design and implementation of automated internal control systems, including internal control workflow, which establishes continuous process assurance while increasing efficiency. Dashboarding and reporting are part of this service, together with advanced analytical features, such as data mining, statistical analysis for identification of relationships and statistical correlations, and artificial intelligence.
We help address your complex technical accounting questions. We can help your company navigate large-scale financial reporting changes, from moving to a new accounting framework (e.g., due to regulatory change or as cross-border transaction) to adopting a new accounting policy (e.g., revenue recognition, financial instruments, leasing or insurance contracts).
Managed services are structured as a strategic long-term arrangement to provide a select set of value-added services addressing the client’s most challenging requirements. The services are output-based and give companies access to SGV teams, industrialized processes and technology on a longer-term and non-project basis. We help clients plan the appropriate use of managed services for increased efficiency and continuous improvement. Managed services are broadly categorized to three clusters: Reporting, Transaction accounting and Finance of the future. Certain FAAS services could be offered as managed services with a longer-term, multi-client and non-project-based delivery.
FAAS combines IT capabilities, industry insights, and accounting and reporting knowledge to support you in an efficient, effective and differentiated way. Projects are typically centered on one of these three activities:
FAAS can assist you with industrialized, customized templates or bespoke developments. Industrialized products are tools offered globally which can easily be configured to help your organizations’ finance and accounting departments. Examples of these tools are the Process Mining tool (a technology that analyzes performance data in order to improve process flows), a software application that is an automated end-to-end processing of invoices by applying Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Policy Sphere (a web-based tool that can serve as a multidimensional central repository for policies, other related documents, governance and approval workflows), among others. Bespoke developments are tools that are developed by FAAS professionals as a part of the delivery of specific engagements and are designed for that particular engagement only. We can also assist in management reporting and key performance indicators (KPIs), which include defining an internal reporting framework for your management reporting, business planning and corporate scorecards. This service helps set a clear direction of the path to either minor or significant change to the abovementioned processes, aligning where possible. Internal and external reporting and developing new processes can be further adjusted in the future as required. Amending your KPIs to new measures of performance may also have an indirect implication on segment reporting requirements. In this case, it may also be necessary to amend the perimeter of the business being measured and ascertain the appropriate asset and liability allocations. It is also important to ensure that accepted transfer pricing techniques are applied to income and costs from the new segments.
Experienced in forensic accounting, technology systems and risk management, we investigate areas where clients suspect there is a problem. We also help clients manage risk, investigate alleged misconduct, measure the financial implications when issues arise, and provide support when necessary.
We help companies and their legal counsel prepare the calculations, analyses and strategies required for complex commercial disputes. Ultimately, we help safeguard the value of an organization’s business and help generate legitimate gain from their contracts and transactions.
We help clients identify, manage and deliver sustainability strategies that address nonfinancial matters such as environmental and social risks. We assist our clients in building their resilience to navigate the ever-changing business environment and create long-term value.
We help organizations understand their emerging sustainability, supply chain or environment, social and governance (ESG) risks (e.g., human rights, modern slavery, resource constraints, climate change, conflict minerals). We also help build resilience and strengthen their ‘social license to grow’ so that they can survive and thrive in an increasingly competitive and accountable operating environment. This includes sustainability maturity assessment; stakeholder engagement, prioritization, analysis; materiality assessments and benchmarking; advice on sustainability risks in the value chain; supply chain sustainability management; assisting in identifying human rights risks in the supply chain and advising on risk management and reporting; training, development and capacity building; policy development and research; and portfolio sustainability risk assessment.
We help organizations transition to new ways of communicating their sustainability performance and address the demand of other key stakeholders for greater and more meaningful assurance over nonfinancial disclosures. Advisory services include the development of sustainability, integrated annual reports and other communications, collection and collation of nonfinancial data, report benchmarking, integrated reporting advice and development. Assurance services cover nonfinancial disclosures, reported metrics, principles and information, internal, management and board communications, and product claims.
We assist organizations in making strategic and operational decisions that drive the effective management of environment, health and safety, with an aim to prevent incidents, or in the worst of outcomes – a workplace fatality or environmental catastrophe. This includes statutory, compliance and internal HSE audits; EHS due diligence; gap analysis against legislation or internal policy; developing, implementing and reviewing HSE Management Systems and assurance frameworks; safety culture and behavioral maturity assessment; and resource efficiency, waste and packaging advice.
FSO works with clients in the banking, capital markets, insurance, wealth and asset management sectors. As today’s financial services market is global, constantly changing and highly regulated, we offer a dynamic approach to help manage uncertainties and the opportunities these present. The SGV / EY-Philippines office is one of the key FSO locations in the Asia-Pacific. The Asia-Pacific FSO operates across four markets: ASEAN, Greater China, Korea, and Oceania and four Service Lines: Consulting, Assurance, Tax, and Strategy and Transactions. Our strong global teams, local capabilities and seamless collaboration bring innovative problem-solving, breakthrough performance gains and sustainable value creation to our clients and stakeholders.