Not only does AGIA conduct trainings and other professional development activities, but also provides Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities annually to the community. For its 1st CSR activity this year, the AGIA conducted an orientation on Internal Auditing (IA) to Grades 11 and 12 students of the Quezon City Science High School on March 29, 2023.
In collaboration with the AGIA Training and Development Committee (TDC), the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Committee considered knowledge-sharing as its 1st giving-back activity for the year, in preparation for the incoming college SY 2023-2024. From the AGIA tradition of giving financial assistance and other forms of aid to those disaster-stricken communities to that of extending help to our less fortunate/indigent but deserving families, the activity is only the 2nd of its kind conducted since AGIA’s inception 1957, the 1st one being in 2018 conducted to incoming college students from various QC schools held at the University of the Philippines. It was aimed to create awareness on IA to ultimately increase enrolment in schools offering it as a course, or stir interest on IA as a career option, specifically in the public sector. Three (3) members of the Board of Directors, TDC Chairperson, Dir. Hideliz Marie A. Laranang of the Department of Trade and Industry, Executive Vice President and TDC member Dir. Liezl F. Entrata-Pangan of the Philippine Guarantee Corporation and Dir. Atty. Irene DT. Alogoc, CSR Vice-Chair and TDC member of the Office of Alternative Dispute Resolution, Department of Justice, delivered their respective brief talks on internal auditing. Dir. Laranang explained to the students the significance of internal auditing and its added value to the organization especially in the government, while Dir. Pangan emphasized the internal auditing profession, its perks and benefits. Finally, Dir Alogoc discussed the organizational structure of internal audit in government and the rank and salaries of Internal Auditors.
The orientation was greatly appreciated by the students as manifested by the questions they raised during the open forum which were responded to by the present AGIA Board of Directors (BODs). The school principal, Ms. Carolyn Simon, deeply expressed her thanks to the AGIA for the successful and very relevant orientation wherein the students gained awareness on internal auditing as a career/profession.
The orientation was joined by the AGIA President, Marissa N. Fabricante, the CSR Chair Dir. Rodelene P. Tan, Vice Chair Dir. Irene D.T. Alogoc and its members, Directors Anthony C. Nuyda, Alexander Alimmudin J. Ali, and Evelyn A. Santos; TDC Chair Dir. Hideliz Marie A. Laranang and its members, Directors Dinah E. Pichay and Liezl F. Entrata-Pangan. Other Directors present were Directors Ma Vene R. Tacuboy, BGen Edgar P. Nigos and Cristina S. Rosario. Assisting the BODs were the ever reliable and hardworking AGIA Secretariat headed by Office Manager (OM) Maureen A. Haduca, Asst. OM Trisha Monica J. Abad, Renelyn Y. Judilla and Kimberleen B. Vergara.
By: Rodelene P. Tan
