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Allan has diversified eleven (11) years of experience with the top professional firms.  His passion for teaching and developing seminar courses led to the conduct of best-selling seminars on various topics and is a highly sought after speaker by various organizations such as PICPA, ISACA Manila, IIAP, Center for Global Best Practices, Grant Thornton Vietnam and Cambodia, ACCA Vietnam, and IDG Cambodia.

 

Allan recently served as the Professional Development Manager of IIA Philippines.  Prior to this, he was with Grant Thornton Vietnam as Senior Manager for Advisory Services where he established the firm’s Business Risk Services practice focusing on enterprise risk management, IT services, fraud and forensic, internal audit and consulting. He was also with Grant Thornton Philippines (Punongbayan and Araullo) as Managing Consultant and with Arthur Anderson Philippines (Sycip Gorres & Velayo) as Audit Associate.  His diversified experience in delivering advisory services to various companies in USA, Cambodia, West Bank Gaza, Afghanistan, Bolivia, Haiti, Angola, Vietnam, Lao, Diego Garcia and Philippines, and in different industries, provided him with a unique perspective that he can share with the seminar participants.

 

Allan is also a board topnotcher (6th place in the May 2003 CPA exams) and continues to keep in touch with the academe by being a CPA review lecturer at Philippine School of Business Administration – Quezon City. 

 

Alejandro "Allan" Palacio, CPA

Vice-President of CIASP

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Sector Experience

  • Professional development (IIAP, PICPA, CISA, ACFE, CGBP)

  • Internal audit (audit of grants and A133 Audit, internal audit and control services, IT audit and control services, Internal audit transformation)

  • Business intelligence & analytics (dashboard reporting)

  • Operational improvement (finance function improvement, business process reengineering, fraud and forensic, agreed-upon procedures)

  • IT management (IT due diligence, IT security assessment, application controls review, IT project management, post-implementation review, network penetration testing, business continuity planning)

  • Change and program management (project management and organization)

  • Fraud and forensic (fraud and forensic investigation, e-discovery)

  • Transaction advisory/corporate finance (valuation, feasibility study)

  • Governance, risk and compliance (SOX consulting, ERM, AMLA/OFAC)

  • Financial audit (annual audit, SEC short form reporting, agreed-upon procedures)

  • Academe (lecturer of undergraduate studies and reviewer for the Philippine CPA Board Examinations)

 

Training Modules

  • Basic Internal Audit Course

    • Internal Audit Workpapers

  • Advance Internal Audit Courses

    • Internal Audit & Fraud

    • Enterprise Risk Management

  • Industry Specific Seminar

    • Financial Controls & Internal Audit of Non-Governmental Organizations

  • Excel Seminar Series

    • Computer Assisted Auditing Techniques (CAATs) Using Excel

    • Applying CAATs in Financial Reporting

    • Applying CAATs in Inventory Count & Reconciliation Process

    • Applying CAATs in Procurement

    • Applying CAATs in Payroll

    • Applying CAATs in Budgeting

  • Other Courses

    • Basic Financial Management

    • Advance Financial Managent

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