Professor Matt Maron

·         Responsible for teaching Accounting and Taxation courses to undergraduate students. Subjects include Financial, Managerial, Cost, and Multinational Accounting, as well as Individual and Corporate Income Taxation. 

·         Include “Active Learning” teaching tools as part of the curriculum in order to enhance the learning experience.   Group discussions and presentations are utilized consistently throughout each course.

·         Institute an “open atmosphere” in the classroom, so that students will feel comfortable participating in class discussions. 

·         Reestablished a relationship between UB and the Connecticut Society of Certified Public Accountants (CSCPA), which led to the receipt of a 2005/2006 Grant from the CSCPA – Educational Trust Fund.

·         Took the lead in adjusting the accounting curriculum to split one taxation class (attempting to cover Individual and Corporation Taxation) into two taxation classes, one for Individual Taxation, and one for Corporation Taxation. UB students will now have a more thorough understanding of both Individual and Corporation Taxation, and will be better prepared for the workforce and for the CPA exam.

·         Responsible for teaching Accounting and Taxation courses to undergraduate students, including the basics of Individual and Corporate Income Taxation, Financial and Intermediate Accounting. 

·         Incorporated TurboTax, RIA Checkpoint, and Excel software programs into the curriculum to better prepare students with usable tools for the workplace.

           University of New Haven, West Haven, Connecticut 06516                                                                    

            Major: Public Accounting      Pace University, Pleasantville, NY  10570                                        

         The Center for Professional Education Inc., Broomall, Pennsylvania

·         Authored the 12 credit self-study course, and accompanying student study guide and quizzer. 

 

·         Prepare Federal and State individual, corporate, partnership, exempt, and trust and estate income tax returns.

·         Perform numerous tax research assignments, utilizing printed materials and computer services.

·         Advise respective owners of changes to tax laws, and possible impact on clientele.

·         Proficient user of ProSeries, TurboTax, and Lacerte tax compliance software.

·         Responsibilities included all facets of federal consolidated income tax compliance.

·         Reduced consolidated and individual businesses effective tax rate by $44MM over a six-year period through implementation of the R&E tax credit work process.

·         Implemented R&E tax credit work process at four plant locations giving presentations describing how to generate tax savings.

·         Provided the expertise for the corporation for tax depreciation; acted as the liaison between the tax department and the UCC Financial Services Center regarding tax depreciation matters.

·         Utilizing SAP, provided instant tax depreciation analyses for new business modeling as well as forecasting corporate quarterly estimated tax payments. Was able to save approximately two days in processing time.

·         Responsible for computation of corporation’s annual earnings and profits calculation.

·       Served as corporation’s liaison with CORPTax software vendor to troubleshoot Federal Tax compliance issues.

·         Managed all facets of multi-state income and franchise tax compliance, including unitary, combined and separate entity filings.

·         Managed state tax audits, tax accounting, and all aspects of apportionment factor data compilations.

·         Developed UCC’s attribution of expense procedure for New York State filing purposes. Procedure continues to be utilized.

·       Testified in the Michigan Tax Tribunal on a UCC Single Business Tax issue.

Mercedes-Benz Credit Corporation, Norwalk, Connecticut                                            1987 - 1989

·      Prepared the federal income tax return as well as all state income and franchise tax returns. 

·      Created computerized tax schedules that supported the corporation’s efforts to achieve an internally driven July 15th Form 1120 finalization date.

·      Utilized effective analytical skills in the preparation of the Corporation’s year-end effective tax rate and tax accrual analyses.

·      Conducted federal and state tax research.

 

Member, American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.                                                                             

Member (retired), Connecticut Society of Certified Public Accountants.

                Earned CPA license, February 1988.

 

            Treasurer, Sherman Nursery School, Sherman, CT (1995-2002).

            CSCPA 2005 Connecticut Accounting Forum for Educators, Willimantic, CT. November, 2005.

            CSCPA  Advanced Income Tax Workshop—Individual. Trumbull, CT. January, 2003.

            CSCPA  Advanced Income Tax Workshop—Corporate. Trumbull, CT. January, 2003.

            CSCPA State Tax Forum.  Southington, CT. October, 2002.