Please Note: is a Professional Limited Liability Company owned and operated by Lawrence F. Hackney CPA. All work is bid and performed by Mr. Hackney.

Accounting:

• Designed and periodically update the company’s Monthly Operating Results (MOR) report.
• Gathered data to prepare and update the company’s responsibility reporting cost/profit center roll-up structure related to the $4.3 billion acquisition of Pogo Producing Company.
• Created Microsoft Access based database to help automate the company’s consolidation and reporting process which reduced the preliminary consolidation process from several days to a few hours.  This system was used for 2.5 years until the company migrated to Excalibur and Hyperion.
• Updated and upgraded the company’s financial models used to help provide quarterly guidance to industry analysts.
• Further work performed in the company’s property, capital, joint interest billing, full cost pool and lease operating expense accounting area.
• Additional responsibilities included assistance in preparation of the company’s SEC reporting documents (i.e. Form 10K, Form 10Q, etc.). 

Operations Planning:

• Liaison between Operations Planning and Operations Accounting; assisted in forecasting calculations and analysis involved in steam cost, gas purchase hedges, cash and non-cash gains & losses, accruals, Full Cost vs. Successful Efforts accounting, SEC disclosures, etc.
• Prepared database to convert historical lease operating data from acquired company records to PXP format to assist in the forecasting and budgeting processes.  Data was converted from multiple legacy systems including Excalibur, Oracle and KEAS.
• Created Excel models for corporate wide forecast and budget reporting used to prepare Wall Street guidance information.  These models were used for three years before the Company converted to Essbase.
• Prepared all pro-forma operational data during several of the company’s acquisitions and divestment projects including Nuevo, 3TEC & Bentley-Simonson, Inc.

Property Administration:

• Prepared well and lease exhibits for the company’s $1.75 billion Permian Basin & San Juan Valley divestments to Oxy and XTO.
• Assisted in preparation of the company’s SEC 10K well and drilling activity count data for several years.
• Prepared and accumulated well data in the company’s $865 million property divestment.
• Lead consultant role in updating and cleaning up the company’s Excalibur Well Master.  Well Master cleanup project needed to comply with the company’s Sarbanes Oxley requirements.

Procurement:

• Created database to provide management with vendor history data across all legacy accounting systems.  

Marketing:

• Compiled data and provided analysis to assist marketing managers in several internal and external presentations.
  

• Performed monthly conversion of GL data in the company’s consolidation of Wilson Financial Group (WFG).
• Prepared data associated with the WFG to SCI GAAP & tax fixed asset conversion into Lawson.  Worked very closely with NaviSite (the company’s Lawson application service provider) to perform and test this conversion.
• Developed procedure to accurately reconcile monthly transactions from the company’s largest vendor (approx. 17,000 invoices/$10MM per month).
• Reconciled historical open/unapplied invoices from 2001 to 2007 for the company’s largest vendor helping the company save approx. $1MM in ‘lost’ discounts, recoup $150M in cash over payments and reverse $450M in historically over accrued expenses.
• Prepared historical (2001 to 2007) financial databases and gathered data for the company’s Financial Reporting group related to properties included in the Stonemor divestment.
• Developed a database to capture 2006 operating data and prepare pro-forma operating statements for the former Alderwoods Group (AWGI) locations.  Executive management uses this data to compare year-over-year (2007 over 2006) operational performance by market.  This data is also used by Executive Management for outside analyst conference calls and press releases.
• Gathered information and prepared documentation related to operational accounting differences between AWGI and SCI accounting policies.  Knowledge gained from this exercise was used to help prepare the 2006 pro-forma operating statements mentioned above.
• Prepared data associated with the AWGI to SCI GAAP fixed asset conversion into Lawson.  Worked very closely with NaviSite to perform and test this conversion.
• Designed database to test the post-acquisition GL to GL interface (SC900) between AWGI Lawson and SCI Lawson accounting systems.  Prepared documentation and presentation materials for SCI/OPI employees and PwC auditors to help understand the GL conversion process and related testing.  Worked very closely with netASPx to complete this work.  Testing was performed monthly from December 2006 to December 2007.
• Initially engaged to document all accounting related issues involved in the $1 billion acquisition of AWGI (second largest operator of funeral homes and cemeteries in North America).

• Assisted in the company's procurement sourcing initiative to study vendor contracts and relationships of its petrochemical plants.
• Created databases to summarize and outline vendor spend patterns from detail history.

• Automated several monthly reports used in accounting and treasury functions.
• Assisted in data gathering related to several due diligence projects.
• Provided assistance with several audit related issues including intercompany account reconciliations and recommendation of policy and procedure.
• Additional work performed in the company’s database consolidation project.

• Engaged to assist the Corporate Controller prepare and update the company’s SEC Form 10K for the year ended December 31, 2000.

• Engaged as Auditor-Client Liaison to assist the client with a special audit and preparation for divestiture of certain assets.
• Duties included preparation of audit schedules for the outside auditors (PricewaterhouseCoopers) and calculation of a balance sheet for the assets placed for sale.

• Engaged to assist the client in its reverse merger and spin off of selected subsidiaries to a larger company with in the reprographics industry.
• Prepared pro-forma financial statements used to assist in negotiations with the minority shareholders and the buyer.
• Additional information prepared to help the client obtain an $18 million revolving credit facility from a major banking institution.
• Auditor-Client Liaison to assist the outside auditors (Hein + Associates LLP) in preparation of various schedules including assistance in preparation comparative P&Ls during the audit.

• Contracted to create and update the company's five year financial model to include new financing from their $160 million common stock IPO with additional financing from a $200 million "off balance sheet" financing operating lease facility and new $50 million revolving credit facility.
• Creation of this model helped management create 'what if' scenarios to provide insight to stock market analysts and better direct capital spending by segment and market.
• Subsequently engaged to update the model for a $43 million merger the company recently went through in the acquisition of one of its competitors.

• Created a financial model to provide FASB 121 analysis to determine long-lived asset impairment loss (if any) in one of the company's subsidiaries.
• Liaison between the company and an external firm hired by the company to perform an appraisal of the company's fixed assets in fourteen (14) locations throughout the country.
• Prepared a reconciliation between the company's accounting records and the detail provided by the outside appraisers, which included a detailed analysis of the company's operating leases.

• Performed duties in the bank's debt service billing area within the Corporate Trust Services department.
• Responsible for calculating variable rates on many of the department's variable rate bond issues.
• Additional service provided in the department's CUSIP project which involved verifying CUSIP numbers for several bond issues which had been newly transferred to the Dallas facility.
• Assisted in clearing cash account exceptions created during the bond issue payment process.

• Created a financial model to calculate asset and liability balances and interest expense for all of the company's capital leases.
• Performed duties in the company's ongoing balance sheet review project.
• Designed spreadsheet application model to reconcile intercompany and other clearing accounts.
• Documented accounting procedures used in the company's human resource and benefits areas.
• Created Microsoft Access database models to automate cash disbursement, fixed asset and inventory reconciliations.
• Prepared FCC, NANPA and State Universal Service Fee (USF) filings.

• Engaged to perform substantive and compliance audit procedures on real estate properties which qualified under the Housing and Urban Development (HUD) regulations, including completion of the audit report.
• Performed review procedures for a real estate corporation and its associated limited partnerships.

• Established procedures and created a spreadsheet model to prepare and complete cash reconciliation of multiple cash accounts within the Community College system.
• New procedures allowed DCCCD to bring reconciliations up to date and remain current from 6 months in arrears.
• These new procedures helped reduce Phase I of the reconciliation procedure from five (5) business days or longer to two (2) business days or less.

• Auditor - Client Liaison in the merger and acquisition of SpectraVision, Inc.
• Created a financial model to determine the opening balance sheet for the new corporate entity formed when On Command Corporation merged and acquired SpectraVision, Inc. out of bankruptcy.
• Created an additional financial model to help management predict its intercompany cash borrowing needs from its parent company in Denver, CO.
• Performed additional duties including general accounting and supervision during wind down of the acquired entity in Dallas, TX.

• Responsible for analysis in budget planning process.
• Designed and implemented an accounting and billing system for all physician tenants.
• Prepared account reconciliations and performed month-end close duties.
• Other duties included system conversion output analysis, support and consulting through periods of staffing shortage, PC support and special analysis of hospital entities.