Bookkeeper / Staff Accounting Position

REBECCA BLAIR WITONSKY

**** ********** ***** *********: 954-***-****

Boca Raton, Florida 33496

E-mail: **********@*******.***

OBJECTIVE To become a staff accountant.

EDUCATION Florida Atlantic University, Masters of Taxation December 2007

GPA: 3.80 / 4.00

CPA Exam Eligible

Brown University, B.A. May 1997

Major: International Relations, Minor: Economics, GPA: 3.72 / 4.00

EXPERIENCE Staff Accountant October 2015 – Pres.

Pompano Beach Holdings LLC Boca Raton, Florida

Perform Quickbooks analysis and staff accounting tasks for commercial real estate

Firm. Use Quickbooks as primary software.

Founder and President July 2014 – Present

Essential Business Planning LLC Boca Raton, Florida

Provide business planning services. Use Excel, Power point, and Word to perform said services.

Instructor, Personal Finance and Entrepreneurship July 2013 – June 2014

Marino Campus Ft. Lauderdale, Florida

Worked as lead classroom teacher in personal finance.

Instructed students in business planning and entrepreneurship.

Business Owner Oct. 2008 – Jun. 2013

Self-Employed Boca Raton, Florida

Prepared tax returns for individual taxpayers using quickbooks.

Brunton McCarthy CPA Firm June 2008 to Aug. 2008

Tax Accountant Boca Raton, Florida

Prepared Tax Returns for Canadian residents in Florida

Used Quickbooks to prepare a 3520 form for a Czech US Firm.

Full-Time Graduate Student Jan. 2006 – Dec. 2007

Economic Development Research Institute Jan. 2007 - Apr. 2007

FAU Semester Fellow Palm Beach Gardens, Florida

Developed models to forecast 3 scenarios for the property tax base of Palm

Beach County through the year 2020. The models incorporated land use trends,

demographic data, and past housing prices.

Prepared research for publication and oral presentation to Board of Directors.

Conducted research and writing on government funding mechanisms for housing

Real Estate Writer and Analyst Sept. 2002 – Dec. 2005

Real Estate Investment Group Boca Raton, Florida

Investors Professional Group New York, New York

Conducted research in national luxury and residential real estate market trends

Gathered information from property appraiser web sites and developed comparables for residential real estate market

Created investment recommendations

Private Equity Research, Inc. Jan. 2000 - Aug. 2002

President and Founder Boca Raton, Florida

Developed models to forecast the number of Internet users, on-line buyers, and ‘

amount of Internet consumer spending by country in Latin America.

Created proprietary formula to identify best countries for investment.

Published and marketed The Private Equity Reporter, an online and

print newsletter covering the Latin American Internet sector.

Recommended investment opportunities in U.S. public and Latin American

private companies

found a successful investment in America Movil and bought it for $31 a share

in 2008 and sold it 2 years later for $50 a share.

dbusiness.com Feb. 1999 - July 1999

Analyst Ft. Lauderdale, Florida

Interviewed executive management about their technology, customer base,

competitors, and strategic partners.

Worked with the Information Technology team to design and manage a national

database of new cutting edge companies.

Evaluated emerging U.S. venture capital-backed technology companies

for an on-line business newspaper.

LANGUAGE Fluency in Spanish; Intermediate Russian-Language Reading Skills;

National Debater;

SKILLS MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Edgar, Word Perfect, Quickbooks, LexisNexis,

Westlaw, HTML.

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