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Executive Program on Corporate Management, HIDA, Japan
Risk Management for Banking & Financial Services, Indian School
of Business in association with Kellogg School of Management
Leading Professional Services Firms, University of Cambridge
Chartered Doctor of Business Admin., CIMS, USA
Senior Fellow, RIAcc / RIM, Singapore
ASEAN Chartered Professional AccountantCertified Public Accountant, Philippines
Certified Investment Solicitor (Top 1), Philippines
Certified Internal Auditor, IIA, USA
Certified Financial Services Auditor, IIA, USA
Diplomate in International Management, AAEFI
Life & Non-Life Insurance Underwriter, Philippines
Certified Estate/Wealth Planner, Philippines
Alternative Economics & Monetary Systems, Vienna
International Investment Law, Athens
Corporate Credit Analysis, Fitch Learning, Hong Kong
Global Entrepreneurship, Handong Global Univ.
Pohang, South Korea
31st Kankeiren–India–Japan Mgt. Program, Osaka
Program for Quality Mgt., AOTS – HIDA, Tokyo
Ad. Strategic Business Mgt., AF Consult, Sweden
Managing Partner & Chairman, Machica Tan-Cruz & Co
Chief Consultant & Chairman, Machica FIRM, Inc.
Email: chairman@machicagroup.com
Skype: michael.machica
Mobile: +63-917-306-0208
LinkedIn: ph.linkedin.com/pub/michael-machica
Languages: English, Filipino, Cebuano, and Waray
International exposures: Asia, Europe, U.S., the Pacific, Australia
Tax planning and auditing
Transfer pricing
Business and corporate advisory
Wealth planning
Independent directorship
Insurance & risk consulting
Most Outstanding CEO (Business Sector), ACLADEB
Asia Pacific Entrepreneurs Awards, Enterprise Asia
Business Excellence Certificate, World Confederation of Businesses Governance & Finance Management, Elite Leadership Award
Best Filipino Achiever in Business Mgt., Golden Globe Awards
Outstanding Professional Award, Superbrands
Outstanding Tax & Accounting Consultant, People’s Choice Awards
Client’s Choice – Tax Law in the Philippines, Legals Finest 200, U.K.
Outstanding Alumnus, Eastern Visayas State University
Young Achiever in Public Practice, PICPA National Awards
Consistent National Awardee / COT-MDRT, AXA Phils.
Post-doctorate Research in Transfer Pricing (visiting scholar),
Institute for Austrian and International Tax Law, WU Vienna
Transfer Pricing Course, IMF Academy, Netherlands
Advanced Int’l. Tax Law, International Tax Center Leiden, NL
Int’l. Taxation (cum laude), JurGrad School of Tax & Business Law, Universitat Munster, Germany
Credits in U.S. Business Law and Tax, University of Guam
D.B.A. (summa cum laude), American Management University
Ph.D. in Management, with academic and dissertation distinction (summa cum laude equivalent), I.A.M.E.
M.B.A., class valedictorian, outstanding graduate in academics, & with thesis distinction, I.A.M.E.
B.A. major in accounting, cum laude and rank No. 1, E.V.S.U.
Former Accountancy Lecturer, EVSU, 1995-1996
Director, Nat’l. Asso. of CPAs in Public Practice, 2011-2013
Various Capacities, PICPA, 2005 to 2023