Welcome to “Close The
Books”
Close The Books is a sole proprietor consulting
business, providing bookkeeping-,
accounting-,
and finance-oriented professional services.
It is owned by Allan French,
was
founded in 2003, and is currently based in Mountain View, CA, right in the
middle
of
Silicon Valley.
►► I have one foot in the world of Accounting and Bookkeeping
while the other is in
Corporate Finance and Data
Analysis.
►► That duality has served me well, as I have been an
effective technical liaison on
multiple
occasions, interfacing between accounting/finance colleagues and Legal, MIS,
and
Marketing department personnel.
Rather
than consulting, I am presently seeking direct-hire corporate employment. The
jobsite
should be located between Menlo Park and San Jose, or else be accessible via
CalTrain or VTA Light
Rail.
LinkedIn
RailGrass
A
PDF copy of my current résumé is posted there; feel free to download it. Unlike the
website
referenced below, this one gets updated regularly.
Close The Books
(Effective
March 2017, visitors come to this “landing page” rather than the true homepage
of the site.)
The
contents of the site are about 90% personal material and only 10%
business-related,
despite the site being named in honor of my
consulting business. My HTML coding
skills
are modest, and this “first web page project” was
designed by me about 14 years ago.
You
read a description of the enterprise at the top of the page, so, I won’t repeat
it here.
You
are welcome to visit the site, but it may not be worth your effort; at least,
not until we’ve
met and talked.
The site is mentioned here merely for “full disclosure” and because I
have
done consulting on a few occasions in the past.