Thought leadership
In this section you can browse through our publications and regularly updated materials intended to bring you useful information about emerging issues and possible solutions to your business needs. If you are a foreign investor interested to do business in the Philippines, you will find our business guides highly informative.
Featured titles
Current issues
Accounting Buzz
2013 Illustrative PFRS Financial Statements
This publication provides an illustrative set of consolidated financial statements, prepared in accordance with Philippine Financial Reporting Standards (PFRS), for a fictional manufacturing, wholesale and retail publicly-listed company, Moonwalk Corporation.
Industry issues
Mine 2013: A confidence crisisPwC’s 10th annual global mining report analyses mining trends by looking into the performance of the 40 largest mining companies and discusses the sector’s prospects moving forward.
Client Advisory letter
Seizing the innovation edge (CAL November 2013)The most innovative TMT companies expect 90% growth rate over the next five years. PwC study demonstrates how technology, media and telecom companies can harness breakthrough innovation to grow revenue
Taxwise or Otherwise
Where are we in the integration of the ASEAN capital markets? (Taxwise, 13 February 2014)On Aug. 8, 1967, over 46 years ago, the foreign ministers of five small countries in Southeast Asia -- the Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore and Malaysia -- signed a document in Bangkok, Thailand which led to the establishment of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. The ASEAN has since expanded to include the Kingdom of Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Lao People’s Democratic Republic (formerly Laos), Myanmar (formerly Burma) and Vietnam.
Tax Alerts
Tax Alert No. 8 (20 February 2014)Amending Section 10 of Revenue Regulations No. 10-2010
Business guides
Finding your way: Doing business and investing in the Philippines (2013)
This guidebook will help you find easy answers to seemingly difficult questions on what to do under specific Philippine business conditions.
Explore opportunities: How to invest in the Philippines (2013)
This business guide aims to answer commonly-asked questions of prospective foreign investors interested in doing business in the Philippines.
More value for your business: Investment Incentives in the Philippines (2013)
These are basic and bite-size yet valuable information that will assist investors in deciding on which incentive option is best in starting and growing their business.
Explore opportunities: Investment Incentives in the Philippines (2013) Japanese
Industry
Mining
Mine 2013: A confidence crisisTelecomm
Making Waves Southeast Asia (SEA) Series, Spotlight on the PhilippinesRead all industry issues
Tax
Client Advisory Letters
A publication about developments in Philippine taxation. It includes the latest BIR, legislative and admnistrative issuances. As well as court decisons and opinions.
Taxwise or Otherwise
Columns that discus the latest developments in tax, business law and current issues affecting the business community, including policy development.
2014 Tax calendar
This calendar has been prepared by Isla Lipana & Co. based on relevant laws, rules and regulations issued as of 30 November 2013 by various government agencies.
National Internal Revenue Code of 1997 (First edition, 2009)
A comprehensive and updated reference material to tax practitioners and tax administrators alike.
Consolidated Withholding Tax (CWT) and Fringe Benefits Tax (FBT) Regulations Handbook: Philippines 2006
Easy reference in determining the various withholding tax and FBT requirements.
Advisory
Think Tank
PwC Think Tank provides expertise to the public and the private sectors, questioning and monitoring strategies and structures. Let us grow with you and work hand in hand as you build a more dynamic business or economy.
Riding the waves of change: PwC expertise in Business & Climate Change
PwC's Sustainability and Climate Change (S&CC) group helps clients address the specific and immediate issues relating to sustainability, as well as helping with longer- term strategic thinking.
Special titles
Philippine Resiliency: A Gem Uncovered (2009)
Insights from top CEOs in the country
Delivering Trust and Quality
This book is a compilation of the partners' thought leadership in various subjects relevant to the practice today.
PwC's 17th Annual Global CEO Survey
How are CEOs capitalising on global trends as they prepare for the future?
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