Accounting Management

HARRY KAUNDA

November ****

Contents: work experience,Duties undertaken, education background, computer experience and references.

CURRICULUM VITAE

HARRY MWABA KAUNDA

Objective Achieving the very best in the Accounting profession.

Date of birth 20th August 1978.

Address Box 37845 Lusaka.

Telephone 097-*-******

Nationality Zambian.

Marital status married with two children.

E-mail **************@*****.*** /***********@*****.***

Registration card number: 650959/11/1

Driving Licence number : 104576/1/1

ACCA Student number : 0867283

ZICA Membership number: T002480

WORKING EXPERIENCE

THE LUSAKA HOTEL

The Lusaka Hotel is a centrally located hotel situated right in the middle of Lusaka city. It has 77 rooms,3 conference rooms, Two restaurants and one bar.

2013 to October 2017 – Chief Accountant

Chief Accountant at The Lusaka Hotel. My Duties included:

Preparation of Financial statements

Preparation of Management Accounts

Staff Supervision

Review of Internal Audit reports

2005 to 2012 –Senior Financial Accountant

My duties included:

1.Preparation of complete set of Financial Statements

Extended Trail Balance

Income Statement

Cash Flow

Statement of Financial Position (Balance Sheet)

2.Internal audit checks

3.Payable Accounts reconciliations

4.Receivable accounts reconciliations.

5.Bank Reconcliations

6.Preparation of Projected Cash flow statements

7.PAYE computations

8.NAPSA Contribution Computations

9.Terminal benefit Computation

10.VAT Computations

11.Duty Manger (once a week)

12.Payroll preparation

The Central stores is part of the Lusaka Hotel whose duties are to handle food and beverage suppliers. In addition central stores also handles the issuing of foods and beverages to departments and other companies that are in the hotel industry. Foods and beverages supplied are mainly meats and Soft drinks. My duties are handling the Lusaka hotel central stores books of accounts which include:

1.Payable Accounts

2.Receivable Accounts

3.Bank accounts, Reconciliation’s and deposits

2001-2005 KAINGO HOSPITALITY LIMITED

Kaingo Hospitality Limited is an organisation that runs lodges and restaurants around Lusaka. Some of the restaurants that have been successfully run by this organisation include The ZCAS restaurant, the Zesco head office restaurants and the Bank of Zambia head office restaurants. I was the head of the Accounts Department. Duties and responsibilities included:

1.supervision of support service staff.

2.Office management

3.Preparation of Bank Reconciliation Statements

4.Wages & Salary administration, including preparation.

5.Preparation of Financial Statements

6.Preparation of payment vouchers and raising cheques for payment.

7.Preparation of Vat and other statutory returns.

8.Cost control.

2004 FIRST PROPERTY AND HOSPITALITY PROPERTY INVESTMENTS.

First property and Hospitality property investments whose Head offices are in South Africa are leasing companies and have properties along the Cairo road in Lusaka. I was working in the administration department of these property leasing companies. My duties included:

1.Preparing of the tenants invoices

2.Preparing statements for the tenants

3.Collecting and depositing cheques

4.Preparing and computing Value added tax (vat)

5.Preparing and computing Withholding tax.

Companies who were our tenants included Ellerines, Telecel, Cloride (Z) ltd Pep Store etc.

1997-1998 CENTRAL STATISTICAL OFFICE

Living conditions and monitoring department, Lusaka Province. Duties involved collecting and analysing data for statistical purposes.

PROFESSIONAL STRENGTHS

FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

Preparation of complete set of financial statements i.e.:

Income Statement

Cash flow

Statement of Financial Position

Interpretation of the Financial statements

Financial Management

Bank reconciliations

Writing up cash books

Final posting of all main books of entry

Extracting trial balances

All accounting journal entries

Preparation of Management accounts and final accounts

Preparation of cash flows and statutory returns (NAPSA,VAT,PAYE)

Preparation of monthly Trade payables and Trade Receivables reports and reconciling the respective accounts

Taxation

Tax computation

Submission of accounts to the Tax office

Attending to tax assessments

Value added Tax (VAT)computations

Attending and carrying out VAT and PAYE audits

Preparing WHT certificates

Preparing PAYE annual returns

Liaising with ZRA on various tax matters.

Other Duties

Preparing variance analyses

Responsible for banking and cashing.

Handling petty cash

Debt collection

EDUCATION

2002 - Association of Chartered Certified Accountants ( ACCA)- United Kingdom.

Student and member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants and the Zambia institute of certified accountants. Courses attained include:

Professional Part one

Financial Accounting

Topics covered Financial statements, accounting concepts and principles.

Financial Information for Management

Topics covered Accounting for management, Elements of cost, costing methods and techniques, decision making, performance management and budgeting.

Managing people

Topics covered management and team development, training, motivation, leadership and effective communication.

Professional Part Two

Information systems

Topics covered managing, designing and evaluating information systems.

Corporate and business law

Topics covered company formation, capital and financing of companies, management and administration of companies, insolvency and employment.

Business Taxation

Taxation for individuals, pensions, property income and national insurance contributions. Other areas covered include: Taxation of chargeable gains, taxation of companies, PAYE and Value added tax.

Financial Reporting( International)

Presentation of published accounts, reporting financial performance, Consolidated balance sheets and income statements, accounting for associates, analysis and interpretation of financial statements, Cash flow statements.

Audit and Assurance

Assurance, Cooperate governance, internal audit, systems and control. Audit evidence and procedures.

Complete review and reporting.

Financial Management

Topic covered include: Investment appraisal, asset investment decisions, Capital Rotation, working capital management, Inventory control and interest rate risk.

Professional Part Three

Governance, risk and ethics

Corporate Reporting

Business analysis

1998 - 2000: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION – Lusaka, Zambia.

ACCOUNTING TECHNICIANS DIPLOMA

Obtained a diploma at level three.

Course contents:

1.Business Administration

2.Basic Accounting

3.Business Communication

4.Numeracy and Statistics

5.Computer Application in accounting

6.Business Law

7.Economics and Statistics

8.Advanced Accounting

9.Elements of information Systems

10.Cost Accounting and Budgeting

11.Auditing and Taxation

12.Financial Accounting

13. Analysis and Design of Information systems

1994 -1996 St Mark's Secondary School.

Obtained "O" Level School Certificate.

COMPUTER EXPERIENCE

1.Pastel 5.1

2.Innkey Version 21(Hotel Software)

3.Microsoft Office

Microsoft Outlook

Microsoft Power point

Microsoft Publisher

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Word

REFEREES

Mr Clement Chasha

Lusaka Trades

Tel 097-*******

Lusaka, Zambia

Renate Wright

Financial and Property investments

188 Loop Street

pietersburg, kwa Zulu Natal

South Africa.

The headmaster

St Marks secondary school

Choma,Zambia.

Mr John Kalumbi

Central Statistical Office

Tel: 097*******

Lusaka

Zambia.

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