Dr. Loretta L. Higgins, Cpa, Mim Email & Phone Number

Texas

Houston, Texas Area

Houston, Texas Area

Independent CPA specializing in Mergers and Acquisitions, High Conflict Businesses, Financial Expert Witness, Forensic Accounting, Civil and Family Mediation, and Civil Arbitration.

Houston Tx

Burgers so good they should be illegal.

Houston, Texas Area

Transportation and logistics company covering lower 48 states. Specializations of company included moving refrigerated full truckloads of commodity quickly.ControllerSupervision of accounting department of 5 staff members responsible for providing all receivables, payables, data analysis, financial statements, tax return support, period end closing and human resource functions.• Develop and prepare period end consolidated financial statement reports in accordance with US GAAP to meet banking and external accounting needs.• Develop all accounting process and procedures including monthly reconciliations for all balance sheet related items, reconciliation of agent accounts, and verification of unbilled revenue.• Develop and prepare detailed analysis of profitability based on owners’ request.• Research and resolve errors by prior controller resulting in over $70,000 in tax penalty recoveries.• Revise human resource process for all driver hires including the issuance of new hire packages consistent with current TWC and DOT regulations.• Review, advise on, and maintain all contracts received and sent from company.• Representation of company before the IRS, TWC, and in all small claims court cases.• Mentoring and training of accounting staff.

Retail natural gas and electricity provider to 17 state de-regulated markets covering the Eastern half of the United States. Operations include gas / electric trading group.Senior Reporting AnalystMember of 17 person Finance and Accounting Department responsible for providing all data analysis, financial statements and reporting for general operational accounting, purchase accounting, FAS 133 accounting, US GAAP Research and SEC Reporting.• Develop supporting documentation for all footnotes, financial statements and MD & A disclosures, in addition to coordinating with external auditors for quarterly / year-end SEC filings.• Preparation of period / year end journal entries and management reports for FAS 133 accounting relating to Gas / Electric Derivatives and Interest Rate Swaps.• Preparation of period end consolidated financial statements for 5 entity company including Canadian operation requiring foreign currency translation• Propose / implement purchase accounting and regulatory reporting procedures for acquired businesses.• Provide software support and training for Solomon Accounting and FRX Reporting Module.• Development contributor to the SOX Implementation Process.

Mid-size regional accounting firm Senior Accountant – Tax / Specialized Projects Group Member of accounting group within the tax department specializing in litigation support, financial statement reconstructions, audits, reviews, and agreed upon procedures.• Work closely with firm partners, attorneys and clients to provide re-constructed financial statements in a post fraud setting.• Tax research and return preparation involving complicated international and domestic tax issues.• Development, implementation and maintenance of Access database system used for document retrieval and report preparation of 70,000+ documents utilized in litigation support.

Research Phd Biblically Based Accounting

Master Of Arts (M.A.), Intercession Mediation

Bas, Accounting

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