Jo-Anne K. Hickey, CPA

PO Box ******

Dallas, TX 75374

214-***-****

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

Accomplished Certified Public Accountant with 15+ years of extensive accounting and tax compliance experience in the following areas:

Big 4 projects

Non-profit operations exceeding $700,000

Partnership, C-Corporation and S-Corporation Income Tax and State Income Tax

Individual, Trust and International Income Tax

Multi-jurisdiction Sales Tax

Medical & Business Consulting

Oil & Gas, Real Estate, & Manufacturing

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Consultant Robert Half; Jan 2018 - Oct 2018

CornerStone Staffing

●Audited 4 yrs Partnership and individual tax returns

●Researched tax-related questions and issues, and responded to clients

●Responsible for the preparation of federal and state corporate, S-corporations, partnerships and individual returns

●Financial planning for businesses

●Reviewed federal and state returns and helped lower level accountants.

Senior Tax Accountant Turner, Stone & Company, LLP Feb 2017 - July 2017

Public Accounting Firm

●Researched tax-related questions and issues, and responded to clients

●Responsible for the preparation of federal and state individual, trust, gift, partnership, corporate and S-corporation tax returns

●Prepared quarterly estimates, provisions, projections, special reports and projects

Tax Consultant 1880 International Jan 2012 - Dec 2016

●Researched tax-related questions and prepared audits of books

●Responsible for the preparation of federal and state corporate, S-corporations, partnerships and individual returns

●Prepared quarterly estimates, projections,

●Maintained inventory, accounts receivable, and accounts payable

●Sales and use tax filings

●Property tax

●Prepared FAS 109 and FIN 48 schedules

Senior Business Systems Analyst Thomson Reuters – Tax & Accounting May 2009 - Dec 2011

●Integral part of leading online tax software and services business, guiding and managed a team of programmers and developers in testing and launching GoSystems new tax products

●Responsible for the design, development and testing of partnership tax compliance software products

●Research, analyze and implement 1065 related tax law on federal and state levels.

●Prepared corporate forms 1120, 5471 & 5472 along with State Income tax

Tax Consultant Ericsson Inc., Sonoran Energy Inc. Oct 2007 - May 2009

●Prepared status insurance, financial plans & business tax returns

●Prepared corporate forms 5471 & 5472 (100’s per form)

●Prepared state unitary, combined & separate company tax returns

●Updated and adjusted apportionment information

●Organized fixed asset project for Texas sales & use audit

●Responsible for preparing 7 years of delinquent tax returns

●Maintained oil and gas property basis, tax allocation and depletion/depreciation schedules

Senior Tax Analyst RSR Corporation Jan 2007 - Oct 2007

●Managed state tax audits, monthly & quarterly state sales tax returns, UK VAT returns and related research

●Managed consolidated and separate company returns, forms 5471 & 5472 and state returns with CorpTax

●Supervised accounting employees

●Developed tax procedures for plant purchasing managers

Senior Tax Accountant II Weaver and Tidwell, LLP Oct 2005 - Sept 2006

Public Accounting Firm

●Manager in charge of client projects prepared by Associate and Senior I Staff with ProSystems, including return review, budgeting and billing

●Prepared IRS correspondence

●Accounted for FAS109 provisions, 263A calculations, Production tax credits, and prepare Cash to Accrual conversions

Senior Tax Accountant Auerbach Albert & Gold, LLC Aug 2001 - Oct 2005 Public Accounting Firm

●Responsible for the preparation of ProSystems individual, trust, gift, partnership, corporate and S-corporation tax returns in the areas of Oil & Gas, Real Estate, High Tech, Consumer Products & High Wealth Individuals – Federal, State and Local, and International

●Managed staff, answering technical, software, and training questions

●Accounted for FAS109 provisions, 263A calculations, and prepared Cash to Accrual conversions

●Firms liaison in charge of marketing services to Chamber of Commerce

●Client bookkeeping with QuickBooks and GoSystem Audit

Associate PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP Feb 1999 - July 2001

Public Accounting Firm

●Managed other tax preparers

●Responsible for the preparation of GoSystems corporate, S-corporation, partnership, trust and individual federal and state tax returns in the areas of Oil & Gas, Natural Gas Pipeline, International, Real Estate, High Tech and Consumer Products

●Participated in ad hoc projects, FAS 109 provision calculations, 263A calculations and Cash to Accrual conversions

●Served as a Mentor to new Associates assisting in training and corporate acclimation

●Participated in engagement budgeting and collection processes

●Officer of the inaugural year of Work Environment Committee, working to promote positive moral of group

●Member of TLS Associates Committee, working with Tax Managing Partner to retain good staff and address issues among the associates

Pro Bono Accounting Achievement Center of Texas 2002 - 2005

●Served as Accountant for Charity service

●Audited their books and filed their 990 Return

●Financial planning and grant money allocations

EDUCATION/CERTIFICATION

Certified Public Accountant 1998

Keller Graduate School of Management 2010 - 2012

Bachelor of Business Administration 1987 - 1992

Stephen F. Austin State University

Graduated May 1992 with Double Major in Accounting & Human Resource Management

Software; GoSystems, ProSeries, ProSystems, OneSource, Lacert, CorpTax, QuickBooks, Oracle and SAP

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