The Accounting Manager is responsible for managing and executing all financial affairs of the company
including accounts payable, accounts receivable, general ledger, payroll, cost accounting, monthly
accounts receivable report, preparing for state/federal income taxes to go to Swalling & Associates,
CPAs, Anchorage business personal property and real estate taxes and other taxes and other
accounting as assigned. The job requires excellent QuickBooks and Excel software skills. Knowledge
of Access is also helpful. This job requires a minimum 18 month commitment, although we would like
a long term employee. Many company employees have worked at Todd Communications for from five
to 37 years.
Other duties include benefits management, insurance, unemployment reporting, rental income
reporting and workers’ compensation reporting.
The accountant is expected to take the leadership role in all accounting and human resources-related
matters including preparing quarterly financial statements and weekly cash flow reports, doing cost
accounting for the products published by the company, financial and accounting security and analysis
of the financial data generated by the accounting department. The position also is responsible for
follow-up on accounts receivable to encourage late paying customers to be fully aware of their debts
to the company and collections.
Duties also include paying all personal bills for the company president and handling preparation of his
income taxes to go to a CPA with the Subchapter S corporate tax information.
Salary for this position is $70,000-$90,000, depending on experience. Benefits include
most federal holidays, a paid time off plan that begins with the pay period following your date of hire
at a rate of 5 hours per pay period (15 days/120 hours a year maximum). After two full years on your
anniversary date starting the pay period following you will earn 6.67 hours per pay period (20
days/160 hours maximum). A Health Savings Account (HSA) is available after 90 days, to which the
company contributes $1,500 per year, paid twice a month on paydays. The company also has a
SIMPLE IRA program, available after one year of employment, which allows employees to put up to
$9,000 of pre-tax salary per year into an IRA. The company will match your contributions up to 3% of
your annual income.
In the first month of each quarter about 75 payments are made to both consignment publishers and
royalty authors/artists/photographers whose work the company publishes. Payments are for
revenues received in the preceding quarter. Among these items are books, calendars and note cards.
Todd Communications also publishes maps and the semi-annual Alaska Directory of Attorneys. A
growing part of the business is international print brokering.
Todd Communications is a 42-year-old publisher, print broker and wholesale book distributor with 12
full-time employees, all in Anchorage except for sales people in Juneau and Fairbanks, where the
company has warehouses. Gross revenues are approximately $2 million per year.
Todd Communications is Alaska’s only state-wide book wholesaler. It specializes in distribution of
books and other printed and electronic media about Alaska. Business is strongest in the late spring
through mid-summer due to heavy demand from tourist-oriented businesses. It slows in the fall and
winter. Sales are strong to book stores, tourist shops, airport stores and museums.
