Curriculum Vitae (or "Have pen, will travel!")   Personal Name Email Age Occupation       Goerman, Manfred Peter riverbendnelligen@mail.com 78 years Chartered Management Consultant/Accountant (now retired)   Experience 1960-1965 1965-1970 1970 1970-1974 1975 1976-1986 1986-2000   Hamburg-Bremer Fire Insurance, Germany, Articled Clerk Australia & New Zealand Bank, Australia, Bank Clerk Hancock Woodward & Neill, Chartered Accountants, Rabaul Papua New Guinea, Audit Clerk Bougainville Copper Project, Papua New Guinea Bechtel Corporation, Senior Auditor Camp Catering Services, Group Financial Controller PDF Holdings, Senior Accountant Total - Compagnie Française des Pétroles, Burma, Chief Accountant Peter Goerman & Associates, Management Consultants Self-Employed and Short-Term Contracts Traded as "Canberra Computer Accounting Systems" and specialised in computerised accounting systems both off-the-shelf ATTACHE, SYBIZ, TAS, MYOB & EXOGEN and writing custom-made applications together with training and ongoing support for both hard- and software including NOVELL and LANTASTIC networking Short-term contracts Major Assignments: Set up the internal audit department for AIR NIUGINI in Port Moresby in Papua New Guinea Introduced a retail pricing inventory control system in a chain of stores headquartered on Thursday Island and operating throughout the Torres Strait of Australia Assisted in the formation of the Pacific Forum Line in Western Samoa Led a team of economic and financial consultants to the Penang Port Commission in Malaysia Designed and implemented all accounting and administrative systems for the Ok Tedi Copper Project's Tug-and-Barge operations jointly operated by Steamships Trading Company in Papua New Guinea Completely overhauled financial control and reporting systems for a major commodity dealer and ship owner in Jeddah in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Set up and operated offices in Athens/Greece and Singapore for shipowners and charterers Designed and wrote in the PICK language a stock control, despatch, and accounting system for a large mail-order house in Australia Rehabilitated a bankrupt college at a major university in Australia and returned it to greater profitability than at any time in its 30-year history Numerous other smaller assignments with commercial companies, public utilities, and construction projects in Australia, Luderitz in South West Africa, the Middle East, Honiara in the Solomon Islands and various other Pacific Island nations Qualifications * Chartered Management Consultant Diploma in Accountancy Certificate of Chamber of Commerce Member Institute of Internal Auditors Fellow Taxation Institute of Australia Member Federation of Australian Accountants Fellow Institute of Administrative Accounting * memberships requiring a financial contribution have not been kept current in retirement "Die ganze Welt mein Arbeitsfeld!" (The world is my home) I keep six honest serving-men: (They taught me all I knew) Their names are What and Where and When And How and Why and Who.