Business confidence in Asia Pacific remains high
Business leaders across Asia Pacific remain confident their companies’ revenues will grow over the next 12 months despite increasing trade frictions.
Catherine H. Santos
Assurance Partner, PwC Philippines
Cathy is an Assurance Partner and the firm's Assurance Transformation Leader who has over 12 years of sound and extensive experience in auditing, design of internal control system and internal control attestation audits in accordance with the Sarbanes- Oxley Act (US SOX). She has expanded her expertise in a wide variety of industries including oil and gas, pharmaceutical products, business process outsourcing services and consumer & industrial products. Cathy is experienced in audits of subsidiaries of large multinational corporations from North America, South Africa and Europe.
She has attended various PwC-sponsored training programs conducted in Turkey, Thailand, Malaysia and China. She has likewise participated in the PwC Global quality review conducted in the Canada firm. She lectures on auditing, accounting, SOX and related business subject matters on seminars and in-house trainings organized by the firm as well as external organizations. She is one of the firm’s key resource people in audit methodology and has been deeply involved in training program design and facilitation.
Cathy graduated Cum Laude from the University of the Philippines - Diliman with degrees in Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and Accountancy.
She is a Certified Public Accountant.
Experience
- Oil and gas
- Pharmaceutical
- Consumer and industrial products and services
- Business process outsourcing
- Not-for-profit organizations
Specialty
- Audits of financial statements
- Review of internal control system
- Sarbanes Oxley-related engagements
- Audit methodology
Education
- University of the Philippines- Diliman (Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and Accountancy
- Ateneo de Manila University (Building Value Program)
- Asian Institute of Management (Management Development Program)
More on Cathy
Human touch in customer experience
In an age of chatbots, digital payments, AI, IoT, and Big Data, companies need to work harder to strike the right customer experience (CX) balance. PwC Philippines Assurance Partner Cathy Santos writes about PwC's new CX survey in "Human touch in customer experience".
More women call for greater transparency in the workplace
To mark yesterday's International Women's Day, PwC Philippines Assurance Partner Cathy Santos talks about the PwC report "Time to talk: what has to change for women at work". Learn about women's career development experiences and aspirations in "More women call for greater transparency in the workplace".
Asia-Pacific business leaders’ confidence at 3-year high
Get the highlights of PwC's 2017 APEC CEO Survey, which was unveiled in last week's APEC CEO Summit in Viet Nam, in our firm's "PwC's Needles in a Haystack" column. Assurance Partner Catherine H. Santos writes "Asia-Pacific business leaders’ confidence at 3-year high".