Mcfarlane Accounting Services

Introduction: My name is Michael Mcfarlane. I am located at 509 Randolph Street Camden, NJ 08105. Here's my employment history. I am working for Lawnside Music Studio Inc. It is located at 120 Lapierre Ave. Magnolia, NJ 08049. I work as an accountant consultant, from 07/2010 till present. My duties include the following: - Accounting for federal and state-funded, nonprofit organization - Tax preparation - Financial statement preparation - reconciliations - Budget preparation for grants - Voucher payments preparation for grants - Contractual review for grant renewals - state and federal HUD grants I worked for Camden County Community Development. It is located at 512 Lakeland Rd. Blackwood, NJ 08012. I worked as a senior accountant, from 06/2009 to 07/2010 (temp basis). My duties include the following: - Accounting for CDBG, home, emergency shelter grant and stimulus grants homeless prevention and recovery (CDBG-R) - Programs included - social service, municipalities, rehab, home improvement, Mr. Fix-it, - State and federal reporting - Camden County and HUD budget reconciliation - CDBG, home and receivables reconciliation - Grant accounting - Purchase orders in AS400 - Payroll - Provided budgetary technical support - Voucher payments - Monitored programs for corrections to operations by journalizing, reappropriating and allocating funds and expenses for accounting records - Contractual preparations - Recording to access-database, excel spreadsheet and AS400 I worked for Wall Street Institute. It is located at 1 South Street Baltimore, MD 21202. I worked as a staff accountant, from 8/2007 to 11/2008. My duties include the following: - International account maintenance of 12 entities - countries - Consolidated cash flow for all countries - Prepared and posted all journal entries for Baltimore office - Adjusted entries to the general ledger - Prepared reconciliations for month end closing for financials - BS and P&L for Baltimore office - Analysis balance sheet and P&L monthly for four entities I worked for Baltimore Housing Authority. It is located at 417 E. Fayette Street Baltimore, MD 21202. I worked as a fiscal budget analysis specialist, from 12/2003 to 12/2006 (contractual basis) and as (temp basis) staff accountant, from 9/2000 to 11/2003. My duties include the following: - GL reconciliation and financial analysis - State and federal grant reporting - Grant accounting - Budget preparation for six city agencies - MEAP, human services, head start, weatherization, home program, child care (state and federal funded) - Reconciled CDBG federal funded programs which were operating and capital for ten year period - Provided budgetary technical support - Written and verbal recommendations for procedural efficiency - Monitored programs for corrections to operations by journalizing, reappropriating and allocating funds and expenses for accounting records - Capital accounting I worked for Security Title & Maryland Mortgage. It is located at 6 South Calvert Street Baltimore, MD 21202. I worked as an accountant, from 4/1999 to 8/2000. My duties include the following: - Prepared financial statements - Title Insurance compliance preparation - Developed procedural manual for loan-base software system - Bank reconciliations - Maintained portfolio of stocks and bonds - Prepared occupancy taxes for 16 states - Process mortgage loans setup/payments I worked for Spring Point Corporation. It is located at 225 West 25th street New York, NY 10002. I worked as an accountant manager, from 9/1992 to 8/1993. My duties include the following: - Oversaw all cash management functions - Forecasted future cash flow, which involved preparation of budget figures - Supervised support staff of three in accounting department - Resolved all problems pertaining to receivables, payables and bank accounts - Prepared financials statements - Bank reconciliation - Prepared and posted journal entries to GL I worked for Michael's, Sesholtz & Associates. It is located at 10 East 40th street New York, NY 10010. I worked as a jr. accountant, from 6/1990 to 8/1992. My duties include the following: - Account maintenance of 30 clients - Analyzing brokerage profit and loss statements - Prepared and posted all journal entries - Adjusted entries to the general Ledger - Prepared and calculated quarterly income and payroll tax reports - Generated financial statements for clients I worked for Thompson & McKinnon. It is located at 8 Water Street New York, NY 10001. I worked as a mutual fund accountant, from 5/1987 to 5/1990. My duties include the following: - Calculated the profit and loss on buying, selling and exchanging mutual funds - Transferred money market and tax exempt accounts - Prepared focus reports, which consisted of pricing and fund transactions for initial trading - Recorded daily financial and trading transactions for eight portfolio mutual funds - Performed the dividend interest calculations - Transferred funds to different accounts I am proficient in the following software: - Excel - IDIS - Peachtree - BITS - Outlook - Quicken - Netscape - Internet Explorer - Orion - Microsoft Office - COB - Champion - Access-Database - AS400 - QuickBooks - Sage The following are my educational attainments: * 1987 - BS Western Connecticut State University - major in accounting with 3.0 GPA * 9/1993-12/1999 - University of Maryland at Baltimore Nursing School References and letter of recommendations are available upon request.