James Hinton

Background

About James Hinton

As a Wyoming Certified Public Accountant (CPA) with 35 years of accounting and tax experience, my career has been well-rounded, having worked in public accounting, for publicly-owned companies (AIRT), privately-owned companies, and non-profits, with exposure to many areas of accounting and taxes. In public accounting, I specialized in corporate income taxes, monthly bookkeeping for our small-business clients, and financial statement compilations and reviews. As the Tax Manager, I managed the tax department, supervising and mentoring the professional and paraprofessional staff, and reviewing the staff's tax return work. As the firm's computer network administrator, I set up and performed daily updating and maintenance of the firm's network, computer workstations, and software. I setup, implemented, and trained many small-business clients on their own computer networks and software programs. My experience as a senior accountant, assistant controller, and controller includes daily processing of bookkeeping, accounts receivable, accounts payable, payroll processing (both full service and “after-the-fact”), bank and general ledger account reconciliations, and various other ad hoc projects and reports as assigned. I currently specialize in calculating deferred income taxes, the domestic production deduction, and the inventory UNICAP calculation. In addition, I prepare all annual income tax return workpapers for submission to our external CPA for preparing the actual Federal, State, and local income tax returns. I work with the Controller on the quarterly SEC Form 10-Q and annual 10-K filings by reconciling and analyzing assigned general ledger accounts. I use a due date management system to ensure timely preparation, filing, and paying of taxes, returns, and reports to many different jurisdictions, including Federal, States, counties, and cities. The system currently contains 925 separate line items. My diversified experience is a valuable asset! As of January 1, 2025, I have retired my CPA certificate. But I am still working at Johnson Restaurant Group, Inc as their Comptroller.