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Consultant & Permanent Employee: all levels of accounting responsibilities, and parallel audits of Sales Tax (a $250,000 claw back for Mattel! ), Work Comp, Payroll, insurance coverage, banking expenses, and organizational operations. Capital and operations budgets, cash forecasts, and financial analyses were also designed and initiated, using MS Office, and a wide variety of custom and standard commercial accounting and asset software, including QuickBooks, Sage, MS Dynamics, Oracle, and FAS.Clients were acquired directly and by agencies, and they included American Girl (Mattel), Fiskars, McGladrey Outsourcing, and Cardinal Health, and Pizza Hut franchises.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Accounting & Finance Contracts - Various clients during which I was tasked with every level of standard accounting, from AP and AR, payroll and related taxes, accruals, account reconciliations, journal entries, amortizations, cash forecasts, revenue recognition, consolidations, multi-state sales tax, through multi-period Financial Reports and Analysis, Budgeting and Forecasting. The variety of industries required almost instant education in a wide range of custom and commercial accounting software, including MS Dynamics, SAGE, and QuickBooks. Responsibilities and successes were as (sole) corporate accountant, Financial Analyst, Internal Auditor, Assistant Controller, and Controller.

St. Paul, Mn

Taught three semesters of Introductory Marketing, Accounting I, and Business Law.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Software Measurement IT & Manufacturing Start-Up: Re-designed the Chart of Accounts, brought aged accounts to zero, reduced WC by 90%, learned the process and assisted building light manufacturing measuring devices.

Bachelor Of Business Administration (Bba), Accounting And Finance

Post Grad - Accounting And Economics

Post Grad - Business, Psychology And Journalism

Activities and Societies: Feature Articles Writer for the Daily Cardinal; Member of Chi Psi FraternityFreelance photographer

Fraud Prevention And Detection, Forensic Accounting