This hands-on Finance and Accounting Consultant with a CPA has extensive experience in both corporate and public accounting. Expertise includes SEC reporting, technical accounting research, standards implementations, mergers and acquisitions and revenue recognition. Industry experience includes manufacturing, oil & gas, architectural/engineering, technology services and Big 4. Systems experience includes SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft, Workiva/Desk, Hyperion and Essbase.

Additional qualifications include:

• Researched, analyzed and implemented new accounting pronouncements from FASB, EITF, SEC and AICPA to determine impacts on clients
• Prepared memorandums and presentations to upper management on the accounting treatment of significant transactions such as accounting issues primarily related to acquisitions, divestitures, derivatives, leases, consolidation issues, special purpose entities, variable interest entity issues, debt, revenue recognition, earnings per share, segmentation and accounting for impairment triggers
• Structured transactions from a U.S. GAAP/EITF/DIG/SEC compliance accounting perspective around power assets such as coal-fired and gas-fired cogeneration facilities at an Energy company
• Completed the scoping, gap analysis and implementation of CECL and ASC 326 for a publicly traded financial institution
• Researched and implemented revenue recognition (ASC 606) and lease accounting (ASC 842) for a multi-media firm
• Prepared technical accounting white papers related to cost allocations, basis of financial statement presentation, income taxes, pensions and postretirement benefits, derivatives, leases, consolidation issues, special purpose entities, variable interest entity issues, debt, revenue recognition, earnings per share, segmentation and share-based compensation
• Prepared five years of restatements, including forms 10-K and 10-Q, resulting from the following changes in accounting policy; share-based compensation, discontinued operations, restructuring and disposition of assets