IDUONKU EMMA IKATA
#28 Chief Ehule Street, Off Agip Road, Rumueme, Box 2110 Diobu Post Office, Port Harcourt,
Nigeria
E-mail:-Phone: +234 -, Mobile -.
Area of
Experience
Accounting Systems Design and Implementation. Auditing, Bank Systems Monitoring.
Book Keeping. Budgeting. Cost Control. Financial Forecasting and Planning. Internal
Control Systems Design. Project Evaluation. Tax Audit and Planning. Financial Reporting
[IPSAS and IFRS]. Teaching and Research.
Computer
Skills
Microsoft Office (Word, Excel & Power Point, Dynamics), Peachtree, Quickbooks,
Sage.
Personal
Attributes
Education
Result oriented. Focused. Dogged. Creative. Personal Initiative. Independent.
Team Player. Contains work pressure.
B.Sc. (1st Class) Business Education & Accountancy. Rivers State University
of Science & Technology, Port Harcourt, 1986.
Graduate Courses in Finance: University of Port Harcourt-.
ACCA Certificate in International Public Sector Accounting Standards, Sept. 2015.
Professional
Membership
Courses
Attended
Highlights of
Professional
Experience &
Accomplishm
❖ Member, Chartered Institute of Public Management of Nigeria, 2015.
❖ Member, Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria, 2013
❖ Registered
Professional,
Financial
Reporting
Council
of
FRC/2013/CP-
❖ Certified Teacher, Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria, RV/R/02520
❖ Associate, Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Nigeria, 2002.
Nigeria,
❖ Mandatory Continuing Professional Training (MCPT) 2002 - 2015
❖ ICAN’s Intensive training on the Adoption of IPSAS, 2013
❖ Accounting, Management and Computer Appreciation for Accountants & Auditors,
June 2001
❖ Stress Management and Personal Efficiency, 1997
❖ Computer Auditing and Security, 1992
❖ Entrepreneurship Development Programme, November 1987
❖ Retired as Director (Procurement) August 2017.
❖ Director (Procurement), Rivers State Universal Basic Education Board (2015 -2017)
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❖ Deputy Director (Budget), Rivers State Universal Basic Education Board -)
❖ Assistant Director (Finance and Accounts) Rivers State Universal Basic Education
Board -)
❖ Duties include: Preparation of Action Plans for Federal Government Intervention
Funds; Preparation of Procurement Plans and Bidding Documents; Evaluation of Bids;
Preparation of Annual Budget Estimates; Final Accounts and Financial Statements for
submission to UBEC, State Accountant General and Auditor General; liaison with
External Auditors. Local Government Education Authority Head of Finance and
Accounts. Budgeting, Financial coordination of LGEA Finance and Accounts
Personnel, scheduling of preparation and returns of Management and Finance
Accounts to MDAs; Budget defense at relevant MDAs.
❖ Ad-Hoc Member, Rivers State Board of Internal Revenue Technical Committee on the
Review of Tax Laws, Feb-April 2015
❖ Worked as member of the Management (Internal Control and Audit Manager) of
Coastal Building Finance Ltd. (Mortgage Bankers), Port Harcourt,-. Duties
included accounting systems design and implementation, auditing and budgeting, and
strategic planning.
❖ Worked with Pan African Bank Ltd. (now liquidated) first as a clerk -) and
then an officer -). Duties included documentation and processing of Letter
of credit, bills on collection, Basic and Business trip allowance, Foreign Exchange
application to CBN, and exchange rate fluctuation analysis. Other duties were Branch
and Department inspection and auditing, fraud and irregular cases investigation, price
monitoring and CBN returns on frauds.
❖ Served as a technical consultant to Pan Securities Ltd. in preparing their Operations
Manual for its Treasury Operations. Designed Contra Vouchers, accounting systems,
and relevant legers and registers. Trained treasury staff on the use of the manual
(August 1995)
❖ Served as a capacity building consultant to the Rivers State Local Government Service
Commission. April 1996. Designed, Mounted, and conducted a 3-day workshop on
“Monitoring and Evaluation Primary Health Care” at the Local Government level for
Health Officers.
❖ Served as a Lecturer at the Rivers State College of Education -): Taught
Business Mathematics, Statistics, Financial Accounting, and Business Finance.
Feasibility and profitability analysis in respect of an evening program for working
Secretaries.
❖ Worked with the Accounts Department, Nigeria Airways, Makurdi -) as an
N.Y.S.C. member. Duties included book keeping (imprest and sales ledgers),
extraction of monthly and quarterly returns and trial balances.
❖ Gained industrial experience (August – October 1985) in the Wages Department of
Michelin Nigeria Ltd., Port Harcourt. Duties included wages and payroll preparation,
cash analysis, wages payment, and invoice bills processing.
NonPublished
Works
1. “Costing a Teacher’s Job”, Rivers State University of Science and Technology, Port Harcourt.
1986
2. ‘A Comparative Analysis of Bonds and Common Stocks Yields for the Period-”,
University of Port Harcourt, Port Harcourt, April 1990
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