Want to put up your own business but don’t know how to start? Then Manila Workshop’s upcoming workshop under its Entrepreneurship series is perfect for you.
The How to Start a Business: Business Registration and Legal Strategies workshop, participants can learn about the policies and procedures regarding the legal requirements in registering a business. Also, participants will have an opportunity to learn how they can use these laws to protect and improve their business.
The workshop will be held on Saturday, February 8, 2014, from 9:30 AM to 4:30 PM at the Ortigas Foundation Library, 2nd Floor Ortigas Building, Ortigas Ave. Pasig City (Beside Shell gasoline station with a McDonalds store).
Here are a few more information about the workshop:
Objectives
1. Enable the participants to understand the fundamental legal requirements in starting a business.
2. Help the participants decide on the best type of business ownership.
3. Educate the participants of their rights as business applicants.
4. Teach participants on how to use the laws to expedite and fast track business applications and other transactions.
5. Help participants identify redress options in case of legal violations by government frontline services.
Who Should Participate
- People thinking of starting a business
- Existing business owners
- Home-based entrepreneurs
- Mompreneurs
- Technopreneurs
- Managers
- Business teachers and students
Key Topics:
1. Overview
2. Forms of business ownership and their advantages and disadvantages (single proprietorship, partnership, corporation)
3. Step-by-step procedure in filing business applications with appropriate government agencies
4. Highlights of Republic Act 9485 or the Anti-Red Tape Act (ARTA) of 2007
5. Complaint procedures in case of violations
6. Preparing a letter of complaint
7. Securing services of lawyers if necessary
About the Speaker:
The speaker, Atty. Marie Joy M. Payumo-Salgado, is currently the Dean of the College of Law of St. Mary’ University in Bayombong, Nueva Vizcaya. She is also the Legal Counsel and the Corporate Secretary of the Board of Trustees of St. Mary’s University. She was a former Senior Partner of MENDOZA, PADILLA AND PAYUMO LAW OFFICE which handles civil and criminal cases and was a Lecturer of Constitutional Law and Legal Studies at St. Louis University in Baguio City. She finished her Masters of Laws (LL.M) at the University of Melbourne, in Victoria, Australia and has completed academic requirements and public lecture for Master in Educational Management (MA E.M.). She took her Bachelor of Laws at St. Louis University.
Fees:
Regular Rate: Php 2500
Early Bird Rate: Php 2000 (Pay on or before January 27, 2014)
Group rate of Php 5000 (Group of 3 participants)
Pay via BPI, UnionBank or Paypal
Includes handouts, snacks (lunch not included) and Certificate of Attendance
To register for this workshop, just fill up the registration form here.