• Sold all lines of Promotional Products including apparel to corporate and owner operated businesses.  Sales increased by 100% during my tenure.

• Advised new and former customers on the benefits of new or used automobiles that met their needs.

• Prepared monthly estimated Federal Income Tax Projections for six corporations with assets in excess of 16 billion dollars.  Two life and four non-life corporations.
• Prepared monthly estimated financial tax reports based on Statutory, GAAP, FAS 109 and Tax basis.
• Prepared quarterly estimated Federal Income Tax projections for corporations noted above.
• Make payments to the Internal Revenue Service based on these estimates.
• Prepared and filed annual extensions for Federal Income Tax returns for five corporations.
• Prepared and filed annual insurance corporate Income Tax Returns for four corporations.
• Prepared and filed quarterly state income tax estimates for approximately ten states for the six corporations noted above.
• Prepared and filed annual insurance state corporate income tax returns for all states.
• Prepared and filed premium tax returns annually.
• Provided research for management on past/current/proposed local, state and federal tax issues.

• Prepared and filed corporate state tax and various other businesses tax returns.
• Identified on-going changes in registration and filings requirements due to growth.
• Researched income and sales tax issues that saved the company tax dollars.
• Researched international tax issues to ensure compliance with international contracts.
• Proposed and implemented changes in record keeping that eased record retrieval.
• Maintained all the tax rates for the various taxing jurisdictions.

Senior Auditor

• Lead auditor on numerous sales, use and excise tax audits on retailers, manufacturers, wholesalers, distributors and contractors doing business in South Dakota.
• Selected and planned complex audits.
• Conducted interviews with officers, managers, supervisors and employees.
• Advised management on established audit policies and procedures.
• Explained current and impending tax laws, regulations, rulings and decisions affecting audits.
• Cross-referenced working papers.
• Wrote reports that explained the condition, cause and affect of findings.
• Trained new employees on audit techniques.
• Testified at hearings on contested audits.

Auditor

• Assisted Federal Bureau of Investigation on criminal investigations.
• Audited contract procurement policies, validity of obligations and expenditures, inventory requirements and controls, reliability of financial statements, payroll and general ledger accounting and internal controls for safeguarding of funds and assets.
• Independently gathered and analyzed information to satisfy specific objectives.
• Surveyed and analyzed audit prospects.
• Researched applicable laws, regulations and directives.
• Drafted concise, clear, factual, legible and well-organized findings and recommendations.
• Prepared cross-referenced working papers.