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Terrence Daniels Consultant

Finance Accounting

Finance is a way at looking at human endeavor in terms of economic measurability. The two most important words in the previous sentence are human endeavor. Irrespective of the mechanisms and metrics used, to lose sight of the core matter is to lose our way. Terrence Daniels has demonstrated mastery of many of the mechanisms and metrics used to manage complex financial systems. What separates him from many of his peers is the conceptual basis he employs.

Terrence brings a diverse background to his business consulting practice. Raised for seven of his formative years in the Philippines, he has an appreciation of the function of culture and cultural bias in business environments. His choice to matriculate with a Bachelor of Music from Arizona State University has provided another dimension of complexity to his background. During his graduate studies, he served as the campus pastor for Chi Alpha, a campus ministry of the Assemblies of God. These types of choices have shaped him into the sort of person that examines fact patterns from a broad array of perspectives and designs potential solutions that would typically not be considered.

Terrence earned a Master of Arts in Accountancy from Arizona State University, emphasizing financial computer systems and financial modeling. He has worked in a number of industries, in various roles, and most recently was the CFO of VO of Arizona, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of ValueOptions, Inc. Vo of Arizona, Inc., provided behavioral health care management to the residents of Maricopa County in Arizona through a single source contract with the State of Arizona. The project was a complex government contract with annual revenues of approximately $500 million dollars, with funding coming from various Federal, State, County, and Municipal sources.

When studying music, Terrence recalls that a professor told him that a technician is not necessarily a musician, but a musician is necessarily a technician. The same is true in Finance. Without mastery of the tools and techniques employed in financial management, you can never engage in the actual matter of managing the economics of human endeavor. However, mastery of tools and techniques just gets you entrance to the real challenge, managing people.

Terrence has worked in litigation support and financial valuations while working at local CPA firms. Most off his experience has been in governmental project management on the contractor/vendor side, although he spent four years working for the State of Arizona in various roles. His projects have ranged from small entrepreneurial start-ups to large governmental projects with annual budgets in the billion-dollar range. In most instances, the end result was to apply systems automation to enable the staff, both line and executive, to free themselves from repetitive mechanics so as to engage in analysis and optimization.

Many of the techniques that Terrence uses focus on leveraging information systems management and personal productivity solutions to provide the most value-added solution available. This ranges from using Excel and Access as portals into the data-stores of a business to creating those data-stores and data marts using SQL and database management design tools. The real goal is to eliminate redundant data extraction and static data-stores that inhibit effective business decisions. These types of projects require a breadth and depth of focus that only comes from actually doing the work. Finally, Terrence has spent enough time in executive roles to understand how to tailor business information to an executive audience.