Experience & Skills

GFRDEAN.COM

Graham F R Dean CPA

Management Accounting Marketing Operations

Independent Business Consultant

Entertainment, Travel, Hospitality, Transport, Retail, Wholesale, Manufacturing, Wellness Industries

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Experience & Skills Summary

QUALIFIED CURRENT MEMBER OF THE AUSTRALIAN SOCIETY OF CPA’S

Financial Control & Management of organizations of order of $ 5-20 million T/O and $ 5-10 million Assets including financial & management accounting, short & long term planning, budgeting, cash-flow reporting & management, payables, receivables, inventory, fixed assets, HR, payroll & IT.

Statutory Financial & Taxation Accounting of Companies both audited & non audited including Consolidations & Group Reconstructions, Trusts Joint Ventures & Partnerships

Direct negotiation in arranging Bank, Mortgage & other finance sources including Bills of exchange L/C’s leasing & hire purchase & off shore funding , negotiation & admin of various functions incl. all types of insurance, import & export documentation, foreign exchange transactions, leasing of premises & equip. etc.

Management Accounting & variance reporting of multi divisional & varied businesses including wholesale , retail, manufacturing, import, export, transport, farming, entertainment, hospitality & service activities

All Company Secretarial functions including statutory reporting, companies & trustees statutory minutes, boardroom minutes, ASIC & Corporate Affairs matters registers & lodgements

Budgeting, profit & cash flow planning & control, costing & pricing for both imported & manufactured products & service sales organization

All H/R, payroll & personnel functions including employment contracts

Company Director and/or Secretarial ability & experience

General Management of organizations of order of $ 5-10 million T/O and $ 5 million Assets including total responsibility for bottom line profit, & appropriate staff control of order of 100 staff levels, sales, marketing, operations, finance & accounting, short & long term strategic planning, budgeting & cash-flow management, debtors, creditors, inventory, fixed assets, payroll & IT.

Sales & Marketing experience, retail & wholesale customer relationships, planning & implementation of programs for sales, promotions, pricing & rate setting for position. etc, direct marketing experience, incl. cold calling, telemarketing, leadership & team building

Event Management experience incl. conference & music festival organization, complete logistics mgt.

Complete control of IT & implementation of business computer systems including system design, programming , staff training & management of computer systems including personal , PCs , small, mini & medium business computer systems, extensive personal experience & expertise in programming & systems analysis of PC computer systems for use in sales management, pricing, accounting, costing, planning, budgets, word processing, modeling, spreadsheets etc and website & music applications

Extensive knowledge of Computer & IT installation, operations & staff training of extensive range of business computer software including Windows XP, 2000, 98, 95, Dos, MS Word, Office, Excel, Access, Power-point, Publisher, Outlook, Lotus 123, Dbase , Organizer, Tracker , & many & varied Accounting Packages especially Quick books, MYOB & Premier multi-user & other accounting systems

Public Accounting experience including statutory accounts & preparation of a range of Income Tax Returns

Extensive experience and capabilities in all forms of manual bookkeeping accounting systems, ledgers & books of entry & reconciliations

Current Professional Partner for both Quicken (Quick Books) and MYOB (Mind Your Own Business) Accounting Software.

Advanced to Quickbooks Accredited Consultant – Accountant (July 2007)

Successful Self Employment/Consultancy experience in various forms including Business Services Consulting, Marketing, Accounting, IT &Computer Systems Consulting, Entertainment Artist Management , Entertainment Artist Tour & Venue Promotion

Extensive experience in Entertainment & Hospitality Industry as Performer, Musician Director, Artist Management, Recording Production, Promotion & Distribution, Event Venue & Room Management, Theatre Restaurant production, & even Bar & Table Waiting.