Arnold Apdua, Managing Partner
Practice Areas
- Accounting & bookkeeping
- Audit & assurance
- Business law
- Business & strategic planning
- Business tax
- Global compensation & benefits
- Payroll outsourcing
- Personal taxation
- Tax planning & preparation
- Tax structuring for international groups
Sectors
- Business services
- Construction
- Food & beverage
- Professional services
- Retail & wholesale
Biography
Arnold Apdua is a certified public accountant and lawyer in the Philippines. He has seventeen years of experience in audit and accounting practice, including seven years as Revenue Officer of the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) and ten years as practitioner. He is the Managing Partner of AAA and Co CPA's and Managing Owner of Bizmaker Tax and Accounting Consultancy Services. He was a lawyer of Quasha Ancheta Pena Nolasco Law Office.
He began his professional career as an associate auditor of Sycip Gorres Velayo and Co. (SGV & Co.) in 2004. In May 2004, he entered the BIR as Revenue Officer where he performed audit and investigations including regular and special investigations.
He is a resource person and speaker for various Continuing Professional Development (CPD) seminars conducted by the Philippine Institute of Certified Public Accountants (PICPA), Asian Institute of Taxation (AIT) and other professional organizations. He was also invited in several conferences, including Philippine Business and Entrepreneur's (BPE) Expo and Chambers of Customs Brokers General Assembly. He also took a professorial post at the University of Asia and the Pacific, University of the East and Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila, where he taught accounting and taxation.