Accounting Manager
Resume:
THERESA MAINS, JD, MACC, CFE
**** *. ******* *********, ***** 102/ Las Vegas, Nevada 89128
Mobile: 954-***-****/ E-Mail: acqg92@r.postjobfree.com
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
A multi-faceted, educated, and skilled Forensic Accountant with outstanding communication,
client service, and problem solving skills. Success in assessing, advising, and implementing
innovative consultation in litigation involving IRS tax dispute, employee and fiduciary theft,
fraud, and complex business issues. Provide practical business solutions and forensic accounting
services for clients. Recognized for work ethic, loyalty, and having passion in serving clients
needs.
Core competencies include:
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Tax Preparation Receiverships – Accounting
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IRS Tax Disputes and Audits New Business Development
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Financial Statements and Reporting Development of Internal Controls
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General Ledger Accounting Audit Review Procedures
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Period End Reconciliations Nevada Dept of Taxation Audits
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& Analysis Fraud and Embezzlement
EDUCATION
Florida International University College of Law, Miami, Florida
Juris Doctorate, December, 2012
Florida Atlantic University College of Accounting, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Masters Degree in Accounting (with a concentration in Forensic Accounting), August 2006
CERTIFICATIONS & LICENSES
• Member of Nevada Bar - Bar License Number 13373
• Candidate for Nevada Licensure of Certified Public Accountant (CPA). Deemed
eligible from Nevada Board of Accountancy to take CPA exam and on track to complete all
four sections of exam by or before December 2015.
• Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), #138363, December 2007 – present
• Member of Advisory Council - Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Theresa Mains, P.A., Las Vegas, Nevada and Florida 2009-Present
Forensic Accounting and Advisory Services
Highly accomplished Forensic Accountant and Advisor that offers a broad spectrum of forensic
accounting and advisory services to individuals and multiple industries.
Provide litigation consultation and forensic accounting for multiple areas of law including
Divorce, Bankruptcy, Asset Recovery, Tax, Receiverships. Consultation includes all phases of
the case strategy; analysis and discovery, including the case theories, economic merits, discovery
requests, document organization and control, and exhibits; and damages and recovery.
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Selected Accomplishments
• After examination of contracts and financial records I testified on behalf of the Florida
Attorney General my findings that greatly supported allegations of a multi-million dollar
consumer scam resulting in court granting the Florida Attorney General the injunction.
• Successfully led Client to equitable settlement of eighteen million dollars after examining ex-
spouse’s Executive Equity Agreement, and its subsequent resolutions, with a multi-billion
dollar privately held company. Opposition insisted the shares had no value, however I traced
the shares and drafted the discovery requests for the specific documents to confirm my
findings and estimated valuation.
• Represented Client in the medical industry through IRS audit. While complying with the
Revenue Agent, I simultaneously reviewed all financials and found errors made by the
client’s CPA. Working with the Revenue Agent, made the corrections and amended the
returns resulting in over $30,000 credited to my client for overpaid taxes.
• Restructured over 4 years of accounting due to employee theft of all paper and electronic
accounting records and millions of dollars resulting in the ability to document the accurate
accounting for all amended state and federal tax returns which resulted in close to $400,000
credited for overpaid taxes due to the fraudulent accounting.
• Acted as Controller and liaison between Company and CPA as I revamped entire accounting
system and created internal controls after loss of millions due to employee theft.
• Provided problem solving, insight and direction to a non-profit Recovery Center for their
response to a performance and compliance audit and their answers to the questions from the
county commission as the Center was faced with many challenges involving a county budget
cut as well as other decisions that were to be made affecting the Center due to the audit.
Florida Atlantic University Accounting Department, Boca Raton, Florida 2013
Adjunct Professor-Part Time. Fraud Examination - ACG 4682
Rachlin, LLC, (Public Accounting Firm), Fort Lauderdale, Florida 2005 – 2009
Advisory Department - Senior Forensic Accountant
Fully responsible for recreating financial activity of businesses and individuals due to or
suspicious of financial theft, insolvency, fraudulent transfers or conveyances. Methods of
recreating financial activity include the examination and full understanding all financial records
and statements, due diligence and cash flow analysis. Also responsible for supervising and
maintaining the accounting and financial reporting and safeguarding assets for turnaround
companies or companies under receivership.
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Selected Accomplishments
• Senior Forensic Accountant for Receivership. Managed all accounting and business affairs
of multiple forfeited businesses to be maintained as going concern and eventually sold as
well as asset liquidation. Identified close to 40 million dollars of undisclosed assets.
Drafted 30-day financial reports to be filed in Federal Court. Facilitated the negotiations,
bidding process, due diligence, asset recovery process, and assisted in the sale of multi-
million dollar pharmaceutical business and the liquidation of forfeited personal, residential,
and commercial property.
• Through analyses of financial statements, emails, other documentations identified
misappropriations of funds by officers of Publically Traded Company including purchase of
multi-million dollar real estate under a shell Nevis LLC incorporated offshore.
• Assisted in the review of suspicious accounts and investigated suspicious transactions.
Prepared due diligence, money flow charts, account and link analyses, and other back up
documentation for Suspicious Activity Reports for Banks under Cease and Desist Orders.
REFERENCES
Robert J. Kuntz Jr., Esq.
Devine Goodman Rasco Watts-FitzGerald & Wells PA
777 Brickell Avenue, Suite 850
Miami, Florida 33131
acqg92@r.postjobfree.com
Theresa Turner, CPA, MST
Tax Happens, LLC
10018 Park Place Avenue
Riverview, Florida 33578
Robert A. Engler, C.P.A.
Weinstein & Engler, C.P.A.'s P.C.
7805 NW Beacon Square Blvd, Suite 203
Boca Raton, Florida 33487
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