Manager Sales

Don Q. Nguyen

***** ******** **** ***. * Huntington Beach, CA 92647

Cellular phone: 714-***-**** **************@*****.***

EDUCATION:

University of California in Los Angeles - Los Angeles, California

Bachelor of Arts in Business Economics

Courses: Intermediate Accounting; Cost Accounting; Computer Accounting;

Business & Individual Income Tax; Finance; Macro/Micro-Economics; Labor

Economics; Pricing & Strategy; Monopoly & Competition; Money & Banking

CPA Status - Passed all parts of CPA exam as of 1/1/2009.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

Consultant 2007-2009

CB Richard Ellis, Inc., El Segundo, CA

. Public corporation with $5billion in revenue and 30,000 employees.

. Trained and guided a group of six members to file tax returns for

business personal properties located at over 3,000 locations in 50

states.

. Designed standard reports, and developed macros for automation of the

reconciliation and analysis of tax returns.

. Reconciled tax accrual and prepaid accounts at month-end closes.

. Prepared cases for tax-court hearings, negotiated tax abatements,

handled questions, and resolved audit issues with various county tax

assessors.

. Worked closely with the fixed assets department and on-site managers to

resolve tax issues, relating to the treatment of business properties

brought onto the company's books.

. Performed ad hoc projects as directed by the Senior Accounting Manager.

Corinthian Colleges, Inc., Santa Ana, CA

. One-billion-dollar public company with branches in the U.S. and Canada.

. Developed macros, embedded with pivot-tables, to reconcile and analyze

payroll and related accounts for over 2,000 employees at a newly

acquired group of Canadian business units.

. Wrote procedures for, and performed, the reconciliation and analysis of

various accounts at month-end closes.

. Developed macros that increased productivity for an eight-member-G/L

team, and saved, on average, an estimated amount of 40 hours per week

in terms of total team workload.

. Reviewed lease contracts and readjusted rent schedules for over 100

locations.

. Researched FASB and AICPA statements for the treatment of stock option

plan in accordance to GAAP.

. Handled additional duties and responsibilities as directed by the G/L

manager.

Vue Technology, Inc., Lake Forest, CA

. Managed accounts payable and accounts receivable.

. Reconciled the general ledger and bank statements at moth-end closes.

. Prepared corporate monthly sales and use tax returns (BOE-401-A2).

. Helped setup and manage the inventory system from the point of the

sales order to the point of the final delivery, while utilizing a

network of third-party manufacturing and shipping services.

. Assisted external auditors with paper supports, filled out internal

control questionnaires, and sat in interviews in conformance to

Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX).

. Administered other duties, oriented toward costs and benefits

optimization, as directed by the VP of Finance (financial analysis,

facility maintenance, and purchasing).

Rock and Waterscape, Irvine, CA

. Assisted in recreating two fiscal years of accounting record that was

incinerated through a fire.

. Performed heavy data-entry for over 2,000 invoices, payments, deposits,

and journal entries.

. Reconciled general bank account, and payroll bank account.

. Setup tax accounts on the chart of accounts.

COMPUTER SKILLS:

. Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel (Program Macros & Run PivotTables),

Word, Outlook, Access, PowerPoint, QuickBooks, Oracle's PeopleSoft,

nVision, NetSuite, Windows 95-Vista, and Macintosh.

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