Tu-Duyen Tran has over 15 years of experience in accounting, bookkeeping, accounts receivable/payable, and tax preparation. She has extensive skills in QuickBooks, MS Office, accounting software such as Mas200 and Accpac, and tax software including TurboTax and Lacerte. Her experience includes roles as an accounting assistant, accounts receivable clerk, bookkeeper, and tax preparer. She has strong communication skills in both English and Vietnamese.
1. TU-DUYEN T. TRAN
12192 Downing St., Garden Grove, CA 92840
(714) 883-0686( cell)
E-mail: tuduyen_tran2007@yahoo.com
SKILLS PROFILE
To obtain a position that will utilize my experience and education. Qualifications include:
• QuickBooks/MS Office Applications, Mas200, Accpac 500, ProSeries 2014, W2 Mate 2014,
Lacerte 2013, Turbo tax 2009, ATX, Windows XP/2007-2013, Citrix, Internet, P-touch, Demo,
Paper Port, Skype, Ecosway's message center online system, PMI's online website, 10-Key,
Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express, Microsoft Excel 2010 (Pivot tables, V-lookup, filters,
conditional formulas), Snipping tool, and Microsoft Word.
• Knowledge in GAAP, G/L, journal entries, reconciliation, month-end close, financial statements,
accruals, and debits/credits. Issue form 1099 and E-file form 1099
• Additional Proficiency In Kronos, Fidelity with experience in the mortgage and tax industry
• Accounting procedures including accounts payable, accounts receivable, invoices, packing list, bill
of lading, purchase order, work in process report, follow up freight charge, issuing checks,
processing cash control, bank reconciliation, cash and credit card collection reconciliation, charge
back, refund, reimbursement, IBO commission, and control inventory.
• Data analyst. Strong clerical skills including file maintenance, report preparation, research and
tracking.
• Excellent customer service and communication skills in both English and Vietnamese
EXPERIENCE
Finance Assistant 09/14 to 06/15
Ecosway, Irvine, CA
• Preparing A/R report, sales breakdown by category report, sales by store report, IBO
commission report, offline store commission payments report, security deposit status report for
auditing fiscal year 2015.
• Posting G/L for A/P invoices into Accpac system. Assisting in A/R and A/P duties.
• Processing cash and credit card refunds to customers. Issuing reimbursement checks to 90
store branches. Resolving charge back cases, customer's credit card refund claims, and
trouble cases. Contacting to customers for special cases.
• Reconciling cash and credit card sales in daily basic. Following up store's discrepancy report
by using Excel spreadsheet.
• E-filing 1099 form with IRS. Sending Form 1099 for 2014 to vendors and IBO members.
• Analyzing data to create IBO commission reports and monthly sales tax report.
• Preparing A/R aged report monthly, quarterly, and yearly.
• Providing cash and credit card discrepancies reports as well as store commission for store
closure.
Accounting Clerk/ Bookkeeper 01/14 to 05/14
Apple One, Anaheim, CA// Nissei America, Inc
• Processing A/P invoices, cutting checks. Verifying A/P invoices with vendor's statement.
Issuing sales invoices, credit memo along with checking freight, sales tax on sales invoices for
2. services, parts, and machines. Following up A/R aging report by contacting to customers.
Solving related problems.
• Posting transactions for daily bank reconciliation into MAS 200.
• Posting general journal entries into Mas 200, printing general journal report.
• Filing sales tax and use tax return (Annual, semi-annual, quarter, monthly) for over 35 states
by online and by mail. Contacting to federal offices in over 35 states to get instructions for filing
sales tax and use tax return online.
• Filing sales tax and use tax refund by mails.
• Renewing Corporate business license, filing Corporate business annual reports, franchise
business annual reports, and biennial report with online payments and checks for over 35
states before a due date.
• Being in charge of A/R aged invoice report. Checking A/R aged trial balance report to verify
customer's payments. Being responsible for making collections by email, phone, letter
campaigns, and fax to customers on daily basis. Trying to bring all over past due invoices to be
current. Matching invoices with packing lists and purchase orders.
• Contacting to the sales representatives and branch managers to request immediate actions
and approval to charge interest in the some cases that customer doesn't pay.
• Contacting to customers for year-end balance confirmation to provide support documents to
company's auditors.
• Checking employee's mileage business report. Sending emails to employees to remind them
to send their monthly mileage business report on time.
• Posting employees' absence hours to employees’ time cards by converting absence hours to
absence days.
• Verifying payment history for new customers to see if that new customer had a good credit or
not, so that the company can set up a payment term to customer for a new order.
Tax Preparer (part time on weekend- tax season)
First Source, Westminster, CA Tax season 2014 & 2015
• Filing individual income tax returns for clients (Federal and State). Filing Form 1040, 1040EZ,
540,540EZ. Processing W-2, W-2G, Form 1099 MISC, 1099SSA, 1099R, 1099 INT, 1098, K1,
IRA, etc.
• Completing schedules A, B, C, D, E.
• Assisting clients to get child tax credit, earned income credit, education credit, retirement
savings and contribution credit.
• Providing excellent tax service to clients in a busy tax season.
Accounting Assistant (part time on weekend) 10/12 to 01/14
Program Management International Inc (PMI), Lake Forest, CA
• Utilizing the company’s customer online web portal to export order reports for large utility
customers, creating individual monthly consolidated invoices for all customer employee
purchases by customer region, cost center and business unit.
• Account Receivable reconciliation: developed and maintain AR spreadsheets with check
payments. Merchant Account transaction reconciliation. Forensic Accounting
Corporate Tax Returns
• Being charge of invoice spreadsheets and receivable spreadsheets in general and details for
each customer. Providing A/R report to manager.
3. • Creating packing lists to send to customers along with items. Following up purchase orders
with back orders. Creating purchase orders to send to vendors. Filing invoices and purchase
orders. Performing general office duties.
• Analyzing a financial data in 2010 and 2011 to send financial reports to manager.
Accounts Receivable Clerk 08/12 to 11/13
Ecosway // Roth Staffing Companies, L.P, Irvine, CA
• Processing credit card refunds, cash refunds, store reimbursements as requested from 85
Ecosway stores in US. Contacting with stores by phone to remind them for sending properly
forms such as daily credit note reports, product receipts, credit note receipts, credit card
settlement receipts, daily sale reports, or credit card collection listing reports, purchased
receipts when they sent incorrect ones in company's message center system.
• Working on daily sales and cash collection reconciliation, bank reconciliation for all stores.
• Preparing discrepancy reports for cash sales and credit card sales to send financial reports to
management team for store closure.
• Assisting to update credit card sale reports, credit note reports, and credit card settlement
reports for monthly stores' reconciliation.
• Verifying IBO commission for form 1099 for the year 2012 and 2011 to IBO members.
• Completing to update monthly reports for direct deposit return list.
• Verifying business names, accounts numbers, monthly sales for commission invoices for store
commission. Providing gross sale reports in the whole year 2012 from stores to calculate
business license fee. Calculate for sale tax.
• Filing operator agreements, bank letters, business license, credit card statements, and
American Express statements. Scanning documents to email proofs to store operators or store
supports.
Tax Clerk 01/12 to 04/12
D.T.TON and Associates, Inc, Fountain Valley, CA
• Perform clerical duties required of a position up to a maximum of 44 hours per week.
• Assist clients at counter and on telephone in response to tax inquires including computer file
research, set up an appointment with clients on the calendar.
• Assist staff with general office duties including filing, record keeping, and file maintenance.
• Hands on preparing individual, corporate, and partnership income tax returns. Perform billing
and collection of tax functions as directed by the tax collector.
• Be knowledge of forms such as 1040, 540, 1120, 1065, 100, 568, schedules A, B, C, D, E to
help out with a busy tax season at a full-service professional services firm.
• Computes state or federal taxes on sales transactions, production processes, or articles
produced, and keeps record of amount due and paid.
• Be accurate, attentive to details, able to communicate effectively both orally and in writing.
Accounts Payable and Receivable 08/10 to 1/12
VND Clothing, Inc, Fullerton, CA
• Taking cares of money issues regarding how much the company owes Vietnam vendors, checking
vendors’ invoices, process vendor invoices for payment, responsible for A/P.
4. • Following up accounts receivable with US customers, notifying errors in garments to vendors in
Vietnam, issuing debits to vendors, and sending work in process report of purchase orders to US
customers weekly. Track payments against contract.
• Checking Vietnam forwarder’s invoices with packing lists, bill of lading. Transferring and
translating issues relating to garments and shipments between Vietnam vendors and US
customers.
• Reporting received payments, vendor debits, customers’ invoices to manager weekly.
• Controlling garment inventory.
• Understands and responds quickly to meet customer needs and resolve problems. Develops
productive customer relationships.
• Assists in implementing new ideas. Participates in mutual problem and evaluate them openly and
fairly. Explores the needs, concerns to routine situations and issues within the work group.
• Be organized and multi-task
Tax Preparer 1/10 to 3/10
Joseph Vu & Associates, LLC, Garden Grove, CA
• Prepared and filed income tax return form 1040 and 540 for clients. Completed W-2, W-2G, 1099
and 1098 forms, earned income credit, itemized deductions, child tax credit, dependents, form
2441 child and dependent care expenses, schedule A, B, C, D, E. Provided excellent customer
service, and handled receptionist, clerk, and cashier functions.
• Presented general knowledge of the responsibilities and tasks performed by departments or
disciplines. General knowledge of the interaction between departments.
Support Associate II 4/03 to 1/10
Assurant, Inc., Tustin, CA
• Verified insurance status. Processed checks and documents.
• Prepared and noted monthly claim draw to be sent to clients. Responded to borrowers’ calls
looking for checks and documents, researched loan numbers, organized documents, and noted
the system to send claim payments. Printed and mailed checks to clients.
• Maintained accurate Excel spreadsheets of all information that needed to be traced. Provided
monthly and yearly reports to management team, tracked checks and documents.
• Performed cash control functions such as endorsing, releasing and depositing checks.
• Trained new hires and worked in a cultural diversity environment.
• Assisted in the development of procurement solutions to best support customer requirements
consistent with program and company goals and objectives.
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Arts, Accounting
California State University, Fullerton
California Tax Education Council
CTEC registered tax preparer--2009-2015
References available upon request