I spent 16 years in finance functions of Coca-Cola, Abbott Laboratories and Novartis with the most recent position being the CFO of Novartis Consumer Health business in Russia with quarter of a billion annual turnover.

Passed CPA (New Hampshire), have russian accounting qualification, GMAT 700 (93 percentile).

Started to learn Python and Django a year ago. Had to learn Linux (Ubuntu) and other open source things along the way. Still learning.............. :-)

If someone is not nice with me I usually ask him/her to prepare a cash flow statement using both methods for a company with $200 m turnover. If this does not work, than I ask to do it using financial statements in Russian (with non-utf-8 encoding).