Profile of the Firm

The Quilab & Garsuta, CPAs (Q&G, CPAs) is a regional organization of Certified Public Accountants with Head Office in Cagayan de Oro City and a Branch Office in General Santos City, organized in July 2017 by practitioners in public accounting that have accumulated a total of 66 years of practice experience.  The Firm is composed of four (4) founding partners, with two partners operating in the Head Office and the other two partners operating in the Branch.  The more senior of the partners are active practitioners in public accountancy and have common bond being once senior audit staffs of SyCip Gorres Velayo & Co., CPAs having about five (5) years of working experience each.  Each of them embarked in public accounting practice which saw them undertake the audits and related engagements for various industries, organizations and NGOs.

Brief Resumé of Partners

Mr. Rico P. Quilab, the Managing Partner, has had 25 years practice experience as the founding partner of Quilab, Cabilin, Bato & Co., CPAs, a general professional partnership founded in 1992 and dissolving by September 30, 2017 after more than 25 years of operation. Prior to his public practice, he had joined SGV in 1980 and left in 1985 to join Xavier University as its Internal Audit Officer. While at Xavier, he was also involved as Accountant of certain projects undertaken by the Xavier Science Foundation, Inc. in partnership with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). In 1988, he left Xavier to join Pryce Gases, Inc., an industrial gas manufacturing company as the Finance and Administration Manager, until February 1991. After that, he joined MASS-SPECC Cooperative Development Center, Inc., a regional development NGO also as its Finance and Administration Manager and, concurrently, as Auditing Department Consultant.  During his various employments he also undertook the practice of management consultancy and auditing services having retained clients such as an educational institution, nonstock, nonprofit foundations, a trucking company, a hotel and various other entities.

Mr. Felix H. Garsuta, Jr. is a practitioner in public accounting based in General Santos City covering SOCSARGEN and Central Mindanao since the year 2000 having audited and provided consulting services to clients in various industries such as in fishing, tuna canning, export, cooperatives, NGOs, manufacturing, lending, schools, distribution and retailing, appliance stores, group of companies with diversified interests, etc.  He joined SGV in 1991 and left in 1995 to join a multi-national company engaged in bio-seed production as the Head of its Finance Department. He left this company in 2000 to engage in public practice as a sole practitioner for 17 years before joining forces with Mr. Quilab and other partners to form this new Partnership.

Ms. Ana Mariae Michelle D. Quilab worked for 10 years with QCB & Co., CPAs and has held a position of Senior Audit Manager when that firm was dissolving by September 30, 2017.  She is a founding partner of Quilab & Garsuta, CPAs.  Ms. Quilab is a graduate of Xavier University for her Baccalaureate degree in 2006, as well as her MBA degree in 2015.  While at QCB & Co., CPAs, she has handled audit engagements of various companies, including banks, cooperatives, NGOs, electric cooperatives and others.

Ms. Rita Zenaida M. Garsuta is the wife of Mr. Felix H. Garsuta, Jr. and who is working closely as an Associate (on a part-time capacity) of his practice in public accountancy.  She is presently employed as the Vice President & Administration Head of an agri-ventures corporation located in South Cotabato. She had been a full-time partner of Miguel Dizon & Co., CPAs for 8 years during the 1990s and had worked in accounting, finance and internal auditing with a group of companies that is engaged in fishing, food processing, lending and pawnshops, and hardware and fishing supplies.