Accounting Management

Benjamin T. Harper, CPA Huntington Beach, CA 949-***-**** ablo1p@r.postjobfree.com

Executive Summary

Accountant with a background in financial statement auditing for publicly (SEC) and privately held companies skilled at:

• Managing the timely completion of multiple financial reporting and analysis projects

• Supervising, evaluating, and training support staff

• Providing recommendations for improvement of internal control processes and business objectives

License

Current CPA Licensee (License# 98798), State of California

Experience

KMJ Corbin & Company LLP Costa Mesa, CA

Senior Accountant 2004 - 2010

Planned, managed, and conducted annual audits of SEC/Public corporations and privately held corporations with

annual revenues ranging from $100 million to $170 million in a variety of industries including inventory manufacturing

and inventory distribution

Maintained responsibility for creating and adhering to audit engagement budgets, completing engagements up to

$10,000 below budgeted engagement costs and up to 2 weeks prior to agreed-upon deadlines

Prepared and presented trainings for an audit department comprised of 20 professionals helping the Firm to achieve a

Best of the Best rating from the Platt Consulting Group in 2008

Monitored, supervised and evaluated job performance of a staff of 5 accounting professionals

Maintained client relations while balancing up to 6 multiple engagements and assignments

Prepared technical memorandums involving complex GAAP accounting issues and summarized proposed alternative

accounting treatment and accounting entries for various controllers and CFO's

Analyzed financial data, including income, expense and balance sheet fluctuations and trends, payroll head count,

and inventory movement

Prepared billings for clients

Prepared and reviewed SEC filings, including forms 10K, 10Q, and various other public company filings and reports

for management and audit committees of public corporations

Drafted financial statements and disclosures for controllers and CFO's

Audited and examined many complex revenue transactions, consolidations, inventory cost accounting, judgmental

reserves, multiple element arrangements, leasing contract provisions, and very complex equity transactions

Planned and performed examinations of internal control systems, including walkthroughs of client's process

documentation and evaluating and reporting control deficiencies

Brigham Young University Provo, UT

Staff Accountant 2001 - 2004

Prepared account reconciliations, journal entries, and other reports for management

Researched and resolved discrepancies on account reconciliations

Education

Brigham Young University Provo, UT

Master of Accountancy and B.S. Accounting 2004

References

Available upon request

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