C.P.A.

Laurie L. Dickenson, C.P.A.

Address: Apt. **, 6218 Schooler Hill Rd, Radford, Virginia 24143;

Telephone: 615-***-****

Email: *********@*****.***

Software Experience: Excel, Access, QuickBooks, Lawson, Macola, Great Plains, Word, Oracle, Best, PrenticeHall

Experience:

02/07 – 01/10 Harpeth Financial Services, LLC (Nashville, TN) Position: Accounting Manager

Duties: Prepared Monthly Financial Statements using Generally Accepted Accounting Principles. Created “from scratch” a Balance Sheet in the Company’s Accounting software,

QuickBooks. Set-up General Ledger Interface between ADP (Payroll software) and QuickBooks. Prepared annual reports to the State of TN for each product line. Prepared personal property tax returns for 22 store locations. Singularly, worked on the Company’s first Sales Tax Audit by the State of TN, covering 4 years. Reduced the tax liability to the State, from approximately $300K to $18K.

06/02 – 01/07 Vanderbilt University Medical Center (Nashville, TN)

04/06 thru 01/07 – Administrative Officer: Developed spreadsheets for the following items where none had existed before: Center Number Listing of 250 Clinical Trial Studies, cumulative income and expenses for more than 15 Principal Investigators, monthly financial reports comparing Actual to Budgeted expenses for the Operating Centers. Review Budgets and Contracts for accuracy. Vouch source documents to the Ledgers for both the Operating Centers and the Clinical Trial Study Centers. Research and clear all Deficits. Prepare journal entries, transmittal forms, center number requests, 1275’s, P.O’s, check requests, etc.

10/05 thru 04/06 – Grants Manager (Pediatrics): Working with Federal Grants and Contracts, Non-Federal Contracts, Foundations and Gifts. Process includes submitting grants, setting-up center numbers and budgets. Monitor spending for all restricted centers on a monthly basis. Work with Finance to finalize FSR’s for submission to NIH and other regulatory agencies. Approve journal entries, monitor and minimize deficits and cost-share variances.

08/03 thru 10/05 – Accountant (Finance / Pediatrics): Work with Departments to prepare FSR’s for federal grants. Approve journal entries, monitor and minimize deficits and cost-share variances.

11/02 thru 08/03 -- Staff Accountant (Finance): In charge of disseminating Cash Deposits. Made two major improvements to the system. First, worked with Treasurer to have Lockbox Deposits overnighted daily rather than just last 3 days of month, with no additional cost. Second, worked with programmer to enhance access database to utilize queries, replacing manual research.

06/02 thru 11/02 Temporary in Finance

08/00 - 06/01 Quebecor World (Dickson, TN) Position: Financial Analyst

Duties: Prepared Monthly Financial Statements, Journal Entries, and Account Analyses. Prepared annual budget and forecast. Reviewed procedures in various departments and made recommendations for improvement.

03/99 - 03/00 Comalloy International Inc. (Nashville, TN) Position: Accounting Manager

Duties: Prepared Monthly Financial Statements, Journal Entries and Cost Statements.

Supervised Payroll, Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable. Prepared annual Budget. Formatted CGS financial statement in the Report Writing section of the Macola Accounting Software, which had previously been manually entered into an Excel spreadsheet.

11/94 - 09/98 Alliant Techsystems Inc. (Radford, VA; Kenvil, NJ) Position: Cost Accountant

Duties: Prepared Monthly Financial Statements, Journal Entries and Cost Statements.

Assisted in Payroll, Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable. Set-up Fixed Asset Register from scratch when the company was moved from NJ to VA in 6/96. Prepared annual Budget.

12/88 - 03/94 Foti, Flynn, Lowen & Co., CPA’s (Roanoke, VA) Position: Senior Accountant

Brown, Edwards & Co., CPA’s (Roanoke, VA)

Salyer & Co., CPA’s (Roanoke, VA)

Duties: Worked with various C.P.A. firms performing audits, reviews and individual, partnership and corporate income tax returns on a part-time basis.

11/84 - 05/88 Young & Prickitt, P.C., CPA’s (Roanoke, VA) Position: Accounting Manager

Duties: Managed various Audits and prepared and reviewed Individual, Partnership and

Corporate Income Tax Returns. (Note: Began as a Senior Accountant and was promoted to Accounting Manager in 1987.)

05/80 - 11/84 Blue Cross and Blue Shield -S.W. VA (Roanoke, VA) Position: Accounting Supervisor

Duties: Prepared Monthly Financial Statements. Reconciled all account balances. Supervised

Payroll and Accounts Receivable. Set-up various internal controls. Performed Internal Audits of various departments including Payroll and Purchasing. (Note: Began as an Internal Auditor and was promoted to Accounting Supervisor in 1981.)

06/79 - 05/80 Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co., CPA’s (Roanoke, VA) Position: Accountant

Duties: Performed Audits and prepared Individual, Partnership and Corporate Tax Returns.

Education: (CPA Certification in 1982)

University of Richmond Richmond, VA (9/75-5/79)

• Degree: Bachelor of Science in Business Administration

• Major: Accounting

• Grade Point Average: 3.64

• Honoraria’s: Beta Gamma Sigma; Phi Eta Sigma

• Graduated Magna Cum Laude

• Treasurer of Accounting Society

References:

1. Mike Hodges, President, Harpeth Financial Services, LLC 615-***-****

2. Debbie Lawrence, Admin. Officer, Vanderbilt Univ Medical Center: 615-***-****

3. Jay Sutherland, Accounting Manager, Alliant Techsystems: 540-***-****

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