Developing strategies to augment revenue in lean period, mostly winter months, by developing rapport and contacts with the Local Authorities;Pricing the accommodation based on demand;Pricing the accommodation, food and drinks to ensure continued revenue and sustainable profits;~Accounting and Finance functions, annual tax returns, quarterly VAT returns;Fixed Assets Register;Overseeing banking and insurance requirements;sourcing suppliers to ensure best possible prices for all inputs, without compromising on quality;Most important, ensuring customer satisfaction and repeat custom.Increasing the value of goodwill component in the balance sheet.

Was involved in Debtors reconciliation of this multi- billion Dollar Organization to begin with.Moved up the ladder to be part of a team of Management Accountants involved in submitting monthly ManagementAccounts to the Board of Directors using Main Frame Computers in the good old days.Gained insight and experience in the departments of Marketing Finance, Corporate Accounting, Internal Audit thatTook me to various parts of India, exposing me to myriad cultures,Languages, and skills in numbers.

Product costing and pricing for the eggs and chicken manufactured;Weekly Board Meeting submitting cash flows, budgetary analysis with actuals and studying the causes for variances;Fromulating investment strategies for the positive cash flows - main areas that I identified were tuna fishing (after a careful study that food will always be a winner), Australian stocks (ASX), property investments in Sydney.The normal functions of a Financial Controller - Monthly Management Accounts, Annual tax Returns, VAT returns, liasing with PWC, pricing the various chicken portions (legs, breasts, thighs, offal, wings etc), ensuring appropriate overhead allocation to the various manufactured products ensuring turnover of manufactured products, profitability and positive cash flow.

I was recruited by PWC ({PriceWaterHouseCoopers) to head the financial operations of this corporate entity and was responsible for not only turning around the fortunes of the egg and chicken business, had the insight to extend the operations to tuna fishing, Australian Stock Investments, Property Investments

Resurrecting a defunct organization, recruited to install SOP and accounting package by Johor Corporation, Malaysia being the parent company;Ensuring appropriate yield per hectare for both tea and coffee plantations of this vast group spread across the Western Highlands of PNG;Introducing piece meal rates to increase production, employing good honest Managers who have a basic knowledge of the crops in question and are honest enough to report an accurate picking figure, supported by the manufactured tea and coffee.Introducing costing modules (process and marginal);Installing ACCPAC accounting package;Training the local staff in accounting, office administration, educating the importance of SOP (Standard Operating Procedure) to get the optimum synergies.

I was recruited by Johor Corporation, Johor, Malaysia to turn around one of its plantation groups based in Papua New Guinea. Besides installing ACCPAC accounting package that would ensure reliable and accurate monthly accounts being generated, I negotiated with all the financial institutions and creditors to get the group back on track, maximising yield per hectare for both coffee and tea resulting in higher prices for both the commodities exported across the globe.

I ventured in to Southern Africa, pastures unknown, when I was offered the position of Chief Accountant by H J Heinz to head its accounting operations of the only soap manufacturing facility in Botswana.Besides designing the accounting format for the specific industry, working from bottom to top, I was responsible for the cost accounting for the various manufactured products (brands of soaps) and reporting to the African head Office in Harare