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Toronto, ON, CA

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Vaughan, Ontario, Canada

• Assist with operational audit planning and risk assessment
• Execute operational audit on key business processes and examine key internal controls to make recommendations for areas of improvement to corporate management
• Deliver clear presentations to management on key audit findings
• Follow up with issued audit and regulatory recommendations to ensure proper implementation

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Assist with audit planning and risk assessment
• Execute detailed audit or review procedures, including reviewing transactions and supporting documents, conducting audit tests, analyzing variance, and performing recalculations to ensure the fair representation of.
• Assist in the preparation of financial statements, reports, and other analytical reviews
• Develop recommendations for future improvement on audit procedures or working papers
• Prepare corporate tax returns T2 (TaxPrep) and NTR
• Perform on-site audit procedures at clients to collect audit evidence to support the audit opinion

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Prepared over 150+ personal tax returns (TaxPrep)
• Assisted with some corporate, trust, and sales tax returns (FormMaster)
• Researched tax regulations to ensure compliance and documentation correctness
• Implemented tax strategies to identify potential tax savings
• Advised clients on relevant tax documents to keep for future tax returns and planning
• Performed general bookkeeping and other working papers (QuickBooks & CaseWare)

Taichung City, Taiwan

• Took on challenging year-end auditing processes for several clients
• Analyzed and assessed accounting working papers and statements for the audited financial reports
• Prepared and filed clients’ income tax and sale tax returns
• Analyzed accounting documents and contracts to be translated between Chinese and English
• Communicated and built strong relationships with firms’ English-speaking clients
• Prepared and organized day-to-day bookkeeping and other working papers for the clients

Taichung City, Taiwan

• Operated specialized weaponries including several different types of firearms and explosives
• Physically trained to carry out military duties within two different bases

Master Of Management & Professional Accounting, Accounting And Management

GPA: 3.7 Recipient of Philip Leong Graduate Scholarship

Bachelor Of Commerce, Public Accounting

• Final Year GPA: 3.62 • Received A in Canadian Income Taxation (Personal & Corporate), Intermediate & Advanced Financial Accounting.