20 YEARS EXPERIENCE IN ACCOUNTING AND AUDITING

  • National and international (US-GAAP, IFRS, EU-directives)
  • Business valuation and consolidation
  • Book keeping and cost accounting
  • Business plans and forecasts
  • Budgetary control and financial accountin

Taxation experience:
  • Business taxation
  • International aspects of taxation
  • Business start up and restructuring
  • Direct and indirect taxation


From 1990 onwards experience gained in privatization and restructuring of enterprises in Eastern Germany and Eastern Europe.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE RECORD:
Date: 07/1998 to date
Location:Landau/Rhineland-Palatinate
Company: Self-employed
Position: Chartered Accountant/Consultant
Description: Specialized on assistance for foreign investors in Germany in Matters of Taxes and Accounting, including Reporting and Controlling.
Until May 2004 freelance expert for PwC, Pricewaterhouse Coopers in the field of International Accounting (IFRS/US-GAAP)
   
Date: 1996 to 2003
Location:Eastern Europe/Russia
Company: Self-employed
Position: Chartered Accountant/Consultant
Description: Regularly engaged in Eastern Europe and CIS for projects for the EU (Phare and Tacis), GTZ, World Bank, EBRD etc.
Main field activities: Accounting for restructuring of industrial enterprises, advising government bodies and authorities in matters of taxes and privatization, collaboration in Corporate Finance projects for development of financial markets.

Project examples:
2002: Ukraine: Privatization adviser in a restructuring project of metal processing enterprise,

2000/03 Bosnia-Herzegovina: Privatization advisor in various projects for the German state consulting group GTZ,

1997/98 Russia: Member of a Corporate Finance team; Responsible for financial reviews of large industrial Russianenterprises preparing for the stock exchange market,

1997 Bulgaria: Restructuring of the Rousse Shipyard, Accounting for restructuring, financial analysis,

1996 Ukraine: Consulting of the State Property Fund of Ukraine, Advising of the State Property Fund in matters of taxes and privatization.

   
Date: 04/1993 to 06/1998
Location:Eastern Germany
Company: Self-employed
Position: Chartered Accountant/Consultant
Description: Member of an expert team, comprising Chartered Accountants,
Lawyers and Investment Bankers, on behalf of the German privatization agency Treuhandanstalt in Berlin providing consultancy and support services in the context of privatization and restructuring projects in Eastern Germany, Assignments undertaken in various industrial sectors, including the chemical and energy industries, Participant in negotiations for significant privatization deals in Eastern Germany, e. g. BUNA and Leuna chemical plants.
Also responsible for monitoring privatization agreements and the investigation of cash-flow compensation and investment deals involving EU and other public subsidies. Auditing carried out for companies in the agency's portfolio, carrying out legal balance sheet audits of industrial enterprises (heavy industry, chemistry industry, textile industry, infrastructure industry etc.)
   
Date: 11/88 - 03/93
Location:Mannheim/Frankfurt am Main/Düsseldorf
Company: KPMG, Deutsche Treuhand-Group
Position: Manager
Description: Auditor of balance sheets for companies of different sizes, various industrial sectors and legal type, including DM- opening balance sheets for companies in the former GDR.

Two month spent at KPMG in New York, dealing with group accounts.

Member of due diligence teams on various M & A deals.

Responsibility held for the organization, preparation and subsequent analysis of comprehensive training programs in Eastern Europe as part of the KPMG program "Seminars in Eastern Europe and CIS". These seminars were on behalf of German local and federal government bodies and the EU (Phare and Tacis). The seminars covered the following topics:

Accounting and auditing according to Western standards, Banking business, Privatization and valuation of business enterprises.

Responsibility also held for the maintenance of relations with partner institutions in Eastern Europe, As program manager and lecturer made regular visits to Poland, Czech Republic, Russian Federation and Kazakhstan.

   

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