| Details on Professional Experiences and Accomplishments RICHARD TORIAN EXPERIENCES AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS Owner, Informationforaccountants.com, Inc., January 2003 to present Informationforaccountants.com's mission is to provide better and less costly accounting services by taking advantage of the Internet, and what the Internet can offer for increasing efficiencies and effectiveness. Services provided are those of a QuickBooks accountant to businesses needing such a service. Also provided are professional Internet-focused information search, research, and analysis services related to management accounting and business topics. The website, AccountingForBusinessesOnline.com, explains the principles and concepts of the QuickBooks Accountant services that I offer. The website, Business-Research-Services.com, explains the services that I offer as an information professional. The Management Accounting Information Center (MAIC) website at InformationForAccountants.com was conceived of in January 2003, and since then, I have been working to create the site and its success. One purpose of the website is to be a premier Internet site for accountants to access free information, which they can use to do their work as accountants. Another purpose of this website is to market my services of providing information search, research, and analysis to management accountants, and others, needing the services. A third purpose is to post on the website ways in which using the Internet, e.g. through mashups, might increase the Internet's value to the management accountant and the business decision maker. Two other websites, Quickbooks-Answers.com and Answers-For-Business.com, are used to solicit business for the company. Accomplishments include: 1. Creating and maintain a business, which has had dozens of clients, and has increased revenues every year since business began in 2003. 2. Establishing and maintaining five websites that support the business. 3. Writing dozens of articles, which are posted on the MAIC website, on topics related to using the Internet to obtain useful management accounting and business-related information. Controller, Eddie Mercer Agri-Services, Inc., May 2001 to May 2002 Accomplishments included: 1. Identified and pursued solutions to financial problems contributing to poor company financial performance. Problems included pricing, inventory levels, quick vendor payments, credit policy and collections, cash management, a program of granting exorbitantly high credit rates on early money, and a lack of good cost understanding and control. 2. Prepared timely and accurate monthly financial statements and analysis. 3. Established, with an outside attorney, a sound defense against return of payments in a vendor bankruptcy proceeding. 4. Improved the company’s information technology, including the use of a satellite ground positioning mapping system to produce farm field maps. Principle Accountant, Howard F. Payne Construction Co., January 1999 to May 2001 Accomplishments included: 1. Transformed the accounting system from a problem to an asset. 2. Established a strong cash management system. 3. Helped fix the 401(k) program. 4. Improved the use of job cost data for decision making. 5. Filled in for accounts payable specialist while she was on extended leave. 6. Did financial statement preparations, payroll, and other accounting and accounting-related duties. 7. Improved the company’s information technology. Passed CPA exam, 1998 - licensed Maryland CPA Took coursers to qualify to sit for CPA exam, 1996 to 1997. Sat for and passed CMA exam, 1996 - certified by IMA in 2001, after necessary work experience. Student, MBA Program, Hood College, 1994 to 1996. Technical Intelligence (Information) Analyst, 1973 to 1994. In 1994, I retired from the Defense Department after 21 years as a technical intelligence analyst. This 21-year experience gave me an opportunity to develop many skills that I believe are important in work as an information professional and as an accountant. These include listening, presentation, writing, time management, interaction, organizational, information management, and analytical skills. Important accomplishments included: 1. Conducting the Defense Department foreign medical material evaluation program successfully from 1985 to 1994. 2. Four years as a technical reporter on European defense technology, while living in Germany, from 1980 to 1984. Many of my reports were rated of major significance. 3. Writing hundreds of articles, reports, and studies in response to requests, from a large number of Defense Department customers, for analysis and information. Prior to working for the Defense Department, I worked as an analytical chemist and laboratory technologist for five years. EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATIONS Bachelor of Science, Chemistry Master of Arts, Chemistry Master of Business Administration More than 30 hours towards a certificate in Information Science Certified Management Accountant Certified Public Accountant Certified in Financial Management Hundreds of hours of training in a large variety of topics and subjects while a Defense Department employee Certified QuickBooks Advanced Pro-Advisor BROAD-BASED, ANALYTICAL-ORIENTED SKILLS 1. Through the life-long pursuit of education; trying to understand how things work; and the use of research, data, and analysis, I have gained a good ability to achieve correct results. 2. I developed good listening, presentation, writing, time-management, interaction, and organizational skills during my 21-year career with the Defense Department. 3. I have good analytical and quantitative skills developed from several years of accounting and other work experiences, scientific training, my MBA program, and my CPA, CMA, and CFM certifications These broad-based, analytical-oriented skills give me the ability to apply a strategic, large picture perspective on the needs and goals of a project. SPECIFIC-FOCUSED, TECHNICALLY-ORIENTED SKILLS 1. During my 21-year technical intelligence analyst career, I developed an excellent ability to screen out, from large amounts of information, the important aspects of the information, relevant to what is needed from the information. 2. I have developed an excellent ability to write concise and well-written analysis based on discovered relevant information 3. From my federal government career, I have good familiarity with the many important aspects of information handling and use. 4. My many years of education and work experience with information science have facilitated my use of the technical aspects of information handling. These specific-focused, technically-oriented skills give me the ability to efficiently and effectively complete a project. |
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| Richard Torian CPA, CMA, CFM, MBA Advanced Certified QuickBooks/POS Pro-Advisor |
