Cecilia Avanceña

Risk Management in T&I

This presentation seeks to impart more comprehensive orientation in managing the more frequent professional risks that T&I service providers encounter in the course of their career. It is divided into:

• Customer ID issues
  • Required customer data
  • Electronic verification
  • Verifying credit risk
  • Objective country risk
• Job specifications
  • Topics and specialisations
  • Calculating deadlines
  • Dealing with urgent jobs
  • Ethical concerns
• Profit parameters
  • Units of productivity and the time factor
  • Minimums
  • Approaches to automation
  • Meeting overheads
  • Accessory expenses
  • Tax margins
• Combatting default
  • National claims procedures
  • Cross-border claims procedures

BIOGRAPHY

Cecilia Avanceña has been translating and interpreting professionally from Spanish, French, German, Tagalog and English into English or Tagalog since 1986. She started as a multilingual conference assistant, and then as translator at the Philippine International Convention Centre. Following two scholarship opportunities in Europe, she settled professionally in Spain in 1990, working for various government agencies. She currently provides services to the WHO, UN, ICJ, various national research agencies and several regional poles of excellence. She was IAPTI representative to the Spanish Vértice T&I network for seven years.