Count on him

When he was denied an accounting partnership after seven years of straightening clients’ records and finances to comply with government reporting, Danny Alas quit because as he said at the time: “I would be earning more money selling vegetables.”

Instead, Alas, “Donnies” to his family and friends, founded as chairman and chief executive officer, his very own company, with his second wife, Marycris S. Oplas, as managing partner. Twenty-eight years later, Alas Oplas & Co., CPAs is one of the country’s leading audit, assurance and consultancy firms for the mid-tier market. The original 30 staff in 1990 in Makati has grown today to 150 people and five branches.