Austin Lauck CPA (Inactive)
Modern Builders, Inc.
Cedar Falls,IA
1
Certification
9
years of professional experience
Accounting professional looking for a stable career for the next 30 years. I have comprehensive experience in financial management and team leadership in both public and private accounting. Proven expertise in streamlining accounting processes and enhancing financial reporting accuracy. Known for fostering collaborative environments and adapting to evolving business needs while maintaining high standards with creative accounting concepts.
Work History
Accounting Manager
2 Years- Prepare weekly payroll
- Enter time cards and send to project managers or supervisors for approval
- Alter data to proper rates of overtime, half time, prevailing wages, vacation, PTO, holiday, and regular
- Enter reimbursements from approved receipts
- Deduct Janesville Lumber bills charged to employee accounts
- Review payroll with last week for reasonableness and enter corrections
- Create direct deposit files and upload to the bank
- Print paper checks for employees who opted out of direct deposit
- Schedule payments of payroll deductions (taxes, 401k, garnishments, child support, HSA)
- Prepare certified payroll report for prevailing wage jobs
- Manage Accounts Payable department
- Process invoices using pVault by coding to jobs and accounts
- Send invoices to project managers for approval
- Import processed invoices into Sage 300 and ensure proper cutoff
- Write checks timely before discount date or due date
- Time payments to lump multiple invoices into 1 check to mitigate NSF charges
- Inform decision makers on invoices outstanding with collected revenue from jobs
- Write checks for invoices decision makers approve for payment
- Prepare month end financial statements for 5 departments
- Prepare journal entries to tie out balance sheet accounts at the end of the month
- Reconcile 5 bank accounts about 20 notes with the bank
- Ensure accounts receivable reports tie to financial statements
- Record intercompany transactions and tie out accounts between departments
- Ensure accounts payable reports tie to financial statements
- Ensure other liability accounts reconcile to tax returns or supporting documents
- Review financials for reasonableness, investigate discrepancies
- Close jobs once all revenue has been collected and invoices have been paid
- File Iowa sales tax return
- Record Stensland Bros LLC rental business cash basis transactions
- Record and deposit rental checks
- Record and pay invoices
- Track rental income and expense per rental unit
- Reconcile check register weekly
- Prepare partnership 1065 income tax return and distribute to owners
- Miscellaneous tasks
- Prepare quarterly 941 payroll tax returns
- Prepare annual FUTA and SUTA tax returns
- Prepare W-2s and 1099s
- Keep track of owners’ personal accounts
- Assist colleagues with personal finance questions (taxes, investments, 401k)
Senior Accountant
8 Months- Prepare month end journal entries for accurate financial reporting
- Prepare journal entries from information gathered via system or colleague in Peoplesoft and OAC
- Review and investigate information for accuracy and reasonableness
- Tie out balance sheet accounts with documentation
- Review trial balance for accounts with variances out of targeted budget on the financial statements
- Prepare stat page using information from different sources to submit with the monthly financial statements
- Bill out miscellaneous billing
- Gather information from colleagues or systems for accurate billing amounts
- Create invoices for nonmedical services with information
- Answer questions from customers about bills
- Reconcile accounts receivable to the trial balance using new invoices and collected invoices
- Prepare monthly financial statements for the Foundation
- Create excel financial statements using trial balance from Peoplesoft and OAC
- Ensure accurate financial reporting
- Tie out fund balance accounting to OAC
- Assist in preparation of tax forms for 7 different entities
- Gather information for 7 business entities 990s and 990-T
- Consolidate and summarize information to submit to Corporate
- Gather information for annual 1099 filing and electronically submit
Senior Accountant
3 Years- Prepare business tax returns including LLC’s, S Corporations, C Corporations, and Nonprofit tax returns using CCH Axcess
- Business tax returns include rentals, farms, and other for-profit entities
- Nonprofit tax returns include organizations with required annual tax return filings
- Prepare balance sheet workpapers established by support provided by client as well as in-house documentation
- Create adjusting journal entries to match the trial balance to workpapers
- Analyze and compare previous years for reasonableness
- Prepare tax return based off of adjusted trial balance
- Reconcile trial balance to the tax return
- Provide tax recommendations to clients for specific tax situations
- Prepare individual and trust tax returns using CCH Axcess
- Organize documentation provided by client into scan and don’t scan folder
- Review documentation provided by client for missing information
- Communicate missing information list with client
- Prepare schedule E, F, or C workpaper for preparer to use on the tax return
- Send completed documentation scan folder to scanning
- Prepare tax return with scanned documents from Sureprep
- Compare previous year to current year for consistency and reasonableness
- Provide tax recommendations to clients for specific tax situations
- Supervise interns preparing tax returns
- Provide monthly bookkeeping services on tax and accrual basis using Quickbooks
- Reconcile all balance sheet accounts using supporting documentation from client
- Analyze and review financials for completeness and reasonableness
- Issue quarterly and monthly compilation and preparation financial statements
- Complete other miscellaneous tasks based on day to day operation
- Prepare sales tax returns
- Prepare amended tax returns
- Provide tax planning services
- Prepare future fixed asset reports
- Conduct accounting research
- Educate coworkers on new systems and new tax laws
- Code new clients in Workpapers CS system
- Implement efficiency improvements for increased production
Staff Accountant
2 Years 4 Months- Provide assurance services to clients including audits, reviews, and compilations
- Prepare audit programs using Checkpoint
- Responsible for completing tests
- Cash, investments, fixed assets, receivables, payables, payroll, income and expenses
- Propose adjusting journal entries to be in compliance with GAAP
- Prepare financial statements to be reviewed by partner
- Prepare individual, trust, corporate, and nonprofit tax returns using UltraTax
- Input tax information using source documents provided by client
- Recommend tax positions to benefit client
- Provide bookkeeping services using QuickBooks and Accounting CS
- Prepare quarterly and year end payroll returns
- Math / proof financial statements and quarterly payroll returns
- Seek out other miscellaneous tasks and timely complete assignments from partners
Staff Accountant
1 Year 1 Month- Prepare month end journal entries for accurate financial reporting
- Responsible for inventory transactions for Watertown, SD plant
- Use excel extensively to manipulate reports used in entries
- Reconcile month end balances between the GL and journal entry files
- Secondarily responsible for intercompany transactions for Watertown, SD plant
- Prepare an array of weekly reports for the business unit
- Create new accounts and add them into HFM and Sage 100
- Review other team member processes for cross training purposes
- Support the business unit with effective and timely communication as needed
Education
Bachelor's Degree - Accounting
Skills
Financial reporting
Payroll processing
Month-end close and internal reporting
Journal entries
Team leadership and process improvements
Solve problems with creative accounting solutions
Bookkeeping
GAAP understanding
Proficient with an array of softwares including : Sage 300 Construction and Real Estate
Thomson Reuters
Wolters Kluwer
Peoplesoft
Microsoft Excel
Quickbooks
Lacerte
creative and effective problem solver with teamwork and collaboration skills
Accomplishments
- Reconciled all bank accounts
- Write off old accounts payable invoices
- Implement direct deposit
- Reallocate intercompany payroll from Modern Builders to Modern Design
- Write off old outstanding “lost” checks
- Write off old Janesville Lumber expired gift cards
- Reverse prior year write off of intercompany invoices
- Pay invoices timely to take advantage of purchase discounts
- Bill Modern Builders capitalized expenditures from Stensland Bros
- Ask vendors for forgiveness on late charges
- Change health insurance from Wellmark to UHC & implement HSA
- Prepare Stensland Bros and Leary Bros 1065 tax returns
- Reduce interest on LOC with cash management implementation
- Assist decision makers with the use of financial statements
- See my attached 2 year review of myself with my goals, accomplishments, and ideas
Increased net income by almost $1.3 million in my first two years at Modern Builders, Inc.
Certification
CPA (inactive)
Interests
College football
college basketball
NFL
WNBA
financial podcasts
walking
biking
running
outside activities with my twin toddlers and newborn
smoking food
Timeline
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