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Sycip, Gorres, Velayo
SyCip Gorres Velayo & Company (branded as SGV & Company) is a Philippine multidisciplinary professional services firm. As of 2014, SGV & Company has employed over 3,000 professionals from various disciplines, including Certified Public Accountants, lawyer, legal professionals, economists, human resources, human resource professionals, engineers, statisticians, financial analysts, and other business and technical experts. Since 1996, it has been the only ISO 9002-certified professional services firm in the country and became a member firm of Ernst & Young International on June 6, 2002. History Early years SyCip, Gorres, Velayo, and Company was founded in 1946 by Washington SyCip in Manila, providing services to businesses recovering from the World War II in the Philippines, Second World War. SyCip's childhood friend, Alfredo M. Velayo, and Vicente O. Jose, Vicente O. José, an accountant with experience in tax work, were taken in as partners in 1947 to form SyCip, Velayo, José & ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Professional Services
Professional services are occupations in the service sector requiring special training in the arts or sciences. Some professional services, such as architects, accountants, engineers, doctors, and lawyers require the practitioner to hold professional degrees or licenses and possess specific skills. Other professional services involve providing specialist business support to businesses of all sizes and in all sectors; this can include tax advice, supporting a company with accounting, IT services, public relations services or providing management services. Definition Many industry groups have been used for academic research, while looking at professional services firms, making a clear definition hard to attain. Some work has been directed at better defining professional service firms (PSF). In particular, Von Nordenflycht generated a taxonomy of professional service firms, defining four types: # Classic PSFs (e.g. law and accounting firms): characterized by a high knowledge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |