Qualifications
The Jacobson Jarvis staff includes professionals with audit experience who work solely with the not-for-profit community .
Jacobson Jarvis believes the key to a successful engagement is the assignment of your audit team . Our firm is unique in that we focus 100 % of our audit capacity on the not-for-profit community , unlike most firms that concentrate on the margin of profit available from the for-profit business and industry sectors . Our staff includes professionals with audit experience who work solely with the notfor-profit community . Ours is one of the largest NFP auditexperienced staff of any CPA firm in the area .
Partners with diverse and complementary skills founded Jacobson Jarvis & Co with the desire to serve the not-for-profit community , Julleen Snyder , Howard Donkin and Erin Welch , lead the audit , tax , and business advisory services departments . Each partner is a CPA and each lends a particular expertise to projects , providing wellrounded analyses and outcomes .
The people we choose for your engagement possess the technical ability , as well as specific experience , to address the issues facing your organization . They are qualified not only to accomplish the tasks at hand but to serve in a business advisory capacity , providing you with useful information on a number of topics .
Cost is also a serious consideration when assigning team members . We will never assign unnecessary personnel to your audit team . We carefully assess your needs and assign the correct number of people to provide you with the maximum level of service . We also insist on assigning people who are technically appropriate to each specific task , ensuring that costs are kept to a minimum .
On the following pages are brief biographies for :
• Audit Partner Julleen Snyder , CPA , CGMA
• Consulting & Audit Partner Erin Welch , CPA
• Tax Partner Howard Donkin , CPA
• Audit Manager Carolyn Stevens , CPA
• Audit Manager Matt Cyr , CPA Resumes of all our professional staff are available at www . jjco . com .
All of our CPAs are licensed in Washington State , and none has ever had complaints leveled against them by the State Board of Accountancy or other regulatory authority .
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