Our Staff

Name:  Susan Jones
Position:  Owner 
 I've been with SMJ Since:   1986
Debits or Credits:  That is the question.
Most memorable vacation:  A fun week in
Paris to celebrate my daughter Erin's college graduation.
I adore: Painting and paper crafts.
My hero:  Pat, my husband of over 30 years.
Best accomplishment:  Raising three children and this business.

Name:  Erin C. Jones
Position:  Director of Operations
I’ve been with SMJ since:  2009 or 1986 depending on
how you look at it.
I also speak: French and a little bit of German.
If I wasn't an accountant: I'd move to Paris.
I adore: Literature, philosophy, art and music
Favorite author:  Marcel Proust
Favorite film: The Rules of the Game

Name:  Susan K. Yoder
Position:  Senior Associate
I’ve been with SMJ since:  1996
Favorite fictional accountant/auditor:  Harold Crick, Stranger than Fiction
When I'm 64:  I'll still be your senior associate at SMJ.
Your biggest fan:  My family dog, Razzmatazz ("Razzie"); I feed her.
Most memorable vacation:  Our family's most wonderful vacation was
to southern California in July of 1999.  While it was centered on the
finals of the Women's Word Cup, it included ten days with all the
attractions of southern California.
I also speak:  Soccer - Try me...

Name:  Jennifer Eckhoff
Position:  Senior Associate
I've been with SMJ since:  1999
Best accomplishment:  Earning an "A" in college calculus.
Favorite quote:  "Don’t let it end like this. Tell them I said something."  -Pancho Villa's last words.
I also speak: A special dialect of Spanish that is unrecognizable to
native speakers.
I adore: Mexican folk art and cheese
Favorite author: Charles Dickens

Name:  Jan Fenton
Position:  Senior Associate
I've been with SMJ since:  2000
Most unusual previous job:  Director of Quality Control for Wicklund’s Spiced Green Beans.
Most memorable vacation:  Monitoring nesting sea turtles in Costa Rica.
Favorite quote:  “Be yourself.  Everyone else is already taken.”  -Oscar Wilde
I adore:  Whitewater rafting, cats and helping my clients figure out how to prevent fraud.
My inspiration:  All the wonderful organizations I get to work with.

Name:  Mandy Backen
Position:  Senior Associate
I’ve been with SMJ since:  2005
I also speak:  Baby babble
Debits or credits:  Both!  I cannot work with a trial balance that
does not balance!
I love:  Ballpark nachos
Most memorable vacation:  Telling everyone that I was going to Kansas
but instead taking off to Hawaii to get married on a sunny white sand beach.
Best accomplishment:  Enduring the long climb up Mt. Adams to stand
at the top and admire the beauty of the Pacific Northwest.

Name:  Cara Philps
Position:  Associate
I’ve been with SMJ since:  2009
Favorite fictional accountant:  The ghost of Jacob Marley
Debits or credits:  Credits!
Most memorable vacation:  Road trip 2009!
Greatest inspiration:  When everything balances.
I also speak:  ¡Español!

Name:  Katie Acker
Position:  Accounting Assistant
I’ve been with SMJ since:  2011
Favorite quote:  "There is no friend as loyal as a book."  -Ernest Hemingway
Favorite fictional accountant:  Leo Bloom (The Producers…honestly,
he might be the only fictional accountant I know of).
When I'm 64:  I hope to be living in a house on a hill with a
salsa garden and a chinchilla.
Lucky number:  31
Your biggest fan:  My cat Tinga
Favorite artist:  Pierre-Auguste Renoir