Accounting Accounts Payable
Resume:
Patrick D. Smith
Tuskegee, Alabama 36083
(334) 332- 2651
OBJECTIVE: To obtain a responsible and challenging position with an
organization that will utilize my knowledge, skills and training as an
accountant and afford me the opportunity for advancement.
STRENGTHS/ABILITIES: Management skills, Auditing skills, General Accounting
skills, and Computer Literacy.
Management skills: Served as a Senior Accountant for a local CPA firm.
Duties
included assisting in the planning and
preparing fiscal budgets;
managing accounts receivables;
developing accounting policies
and procedures; assisting auditors
during fiscal audit; G/L posting;
preparing and recording monthly closing
entries; reconciling G/L
accounts;account analysis; managing
capital projects and fixed
assets; managing bond funds; recording
investment income from
CD's; reclassifying, restructuring and
renaming chart of accounts;
preparing various spreadsheets;
analytical review of all gen. ledger
accounts; preparing monthly financial
statements; processing
payroll; preparing reports and related
tax returns relating to payroll;
managing accounts payable; training new
and current accounting
staff.
Auditing skills: Audits of For profit and Nonprofit
Entities(Including
Governmental and Healthcare
organizations)
Served as an auditor for a local CPA
firm. Duties included drafting
engagement letters, management letters,
client representation
letters and attorney's letters;
calculating materiality; performing
analytical review procedures and
substantive testing; evaluate
internal control; assess risk(inherent
and control); compliance
auditing; developing audit programs;
assisting in audit planning;
collecting evidence, data and documents
for working papers;
proposing and making audit adjustments;
subsequent events
reporting; audit write up; served as an
auditor for a Day
Habilitation Center in Tuskegee,
Alabama
Audits of Colleges and Universities
Served as an auditor for a local CPA
firm. Duties included
financial audit of student loan funds;
endowment funds; compliance
auditing; financial aid auditing.
General Accounting:Served as a Senior Accountant/Accounting Manager for
multiple
for- profit entities. Duties included
reconciling G/L accounts;
posting to G/L; analyzing balance sheets
and income statements;
investigating variances;monthly closing;
preparing monthly
financials; preparing sales tax reports
and returns; preparing
payroll and related returns; process and
reconcile accounts payable
from authorized and approved
requisitions; process federal and
state tax deposits; reconcile bank
statements timely; assist auditors
during fiscal audit; served as a
temporary accountant for Group
Homes for Children, Inc and Colonial
Bank in Montgomery, AL
Computer Literacy: Sufficient in Peachtree Accounting software; Microsoft
Excel and
Word; Word Perfect; Lotus Smartsuite;
INCODE(software for
public utilities); MIPS Accounting
software; ADP Payroll software;
TM1; ProLaw(software for Law firms);
Quickbooks; ability to learn
any software quickly.
EDUCATION: Troy University( formerly Troy State University);
received B.S.
Accounting; December 1998; GPA 3.60
On track to sit for the Uniform Certified
Public Accountants
Examination in October 2010.
EMPLOYMENT:
Macon-Russell Community Action Agency, Inc
102 Lakeview Road
Tuskegee, Alabama 36083(January 2008 - Current)
Beasley Allen Law Firm(Temporary Employment)
Montgomery, Alabama (December 2007)
Aspire Staffing ( Temporary Employment)
Montgomery, Alabama ( April 2007 - December 2007)
Harvey L. Smith and Associates, CPA (February 1995 - Current)
205 South Main Street
Tuskegee, Alabama 36083
REFERENCES:
George Bulls, President of A.C. Bulls, Inc
2801 Althea Street
Tuskegee, AL 36083
Harvey L. Smith, CPA
2725 County Road 45
Tuskegee, AL 36083
Eric Love, CPA
1101 Anona Street
Tuskegee, AL 36083
Henry L. Kennebrew, Executive Director
405- A Macon Drive
Tuskegee, AL 36083
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