Your business deserves an expert CPA team

The wearer of many hats, Amy is the co-founder of Walker Glantz and all-round financial peace enabler. While automating processes and creating a solid set of financials is highly rewarding, she most enjoys working with the WG team and spending time with clients. More entrepreneuer than accountant, Amy thrives when working with innovators and doers - people striving to make a difference. Outside of work, Amy serves as an advisor for Texas A&M’s Chi Omega chapter. She has a great love for her family, Aggie football, and 80s hair bands.

Having grown up in a family of entrepreneurs, Paul has long known that having clean accounting records, a tax strategy, and a CPA as a trusted advisor to help grow a business, are vital to the success of any endeavor. This understanding drove Paul to co-found Walker Glantz, and is the leading driver behind his enthusiasm for ensuring that WG is a valuable Tax and Accounting resource for his fellow entrepreneurs and small businesses. Paul takes great pride in his work and resonates with how passionate and talented his clients are, which is why he’s so motivated to see them succeed. Outside of work, Paul is a foodie and a family man, through and through. Paul enjoys traveling with his wife, discovering the best food and wine the world has to offer.

One of Michael’s favorite things about being an accountant is his day-to-day life is filled with variety. For Michael, that often comes from the different types of clients he gets to work with, all with their own unique backgrounds and stories. An excellent problem-solver, Michael gets fulfillment from unpicking tangled issues, leaving his clients in a better place to make sound financial and tax decisions. When he’s not working with numbers, he’s busy making snacks for his lovely children or weightlifting. He’s also proudly in the role of treasurer for a non-profit that strives to eradicate poverty in the Ann Arbor area. Finally, if you want to get on Michael’s good side, always bring hard candy caramels (they’re his favorite).

Shannon has always had a knack for bringing order to chaos. She spent 8 years in the banking world while also working alongside her father, seeing first-hand the struggles and triumphs of small business owners. She joined Walker Glantz as an Account Lead in 2021 and was quickly promoted to Account Manager. She’s on a mission to work with the people who inspire her - the go-getters, dreamers, and creators of the world - and help relieve some of their stress with her acute attention to detail and endless positivity. Cleaning up books is like a logic problem to Shannon, and one that brings her great joy to solve. When she’s not working her magic with your finances, Shannon is enjoying some time at the piano, getting lost in a good book, and finding the beauty in every moment. The only thing she can’t find beauty in? Lima Beans - they’re her biggest phobia!

Sarah is one for digging into the details. As Director of Bookkeeping she loves taking on an accounting file and cleaning up the data to present a clean set of books for WG clients. Mostly she loves working with a team of problem solvers, ready to take on any challenge a client is facing and find a better way of doing things. You’re guaranteed to find Sarah outside, whether it be for business or leisure. She’s big on spending quality time with family, and thinks the world would be a better place if every restaurant sold Illy coffee.

Before she earned her accounting degree, Michelle worked in technology, project management, entrepreneurship, and harbored a life-long love of numbers. As a former entrepreneur, she has a great understanding of what her clients need from their financial reports, and truly enjoys being able to use her variety of experience to help them understand what their numbers are telling them. At Walker Glantz she loves becoming an expert on each of her clients' businesses, digging into their books to understand all the nuances of their financial data. Outside of work Michelle is fulfilling her lifelong desire to learn to play the piano. She’s not quite an expert (yet), but knows enough to keep herself entertained!

Katie works in bookkeeping because she’s a naturally detail oriented person. In life, she’s most passionate about seeing the people around her succeed and plays any part she can to support them. This extends to her clients, and she feels rewarded seeing her day to day maintenance of a client’s finances evolve into the essential reports they need to run a business. Katie is always learning new skills, and working with owners in various industries and stages of business growth makes every day fun and interesting. When she’s not at work, you’ll find Katie mostly enjoying her family - and no doubt you’ll find them enjoying her Tiramisu!

Samantha is WG's #1 Hype Woman! With potential clients and potential hires, she loves helping others and keeping the firm on track to meet its goals. From leading weekly Huddles to coming up with the best lightning-round questions, Samantha's energy is infectious. She can't say enough about how much she loves the WG team and their perfect blend of personalities. When she’s not working, you’ll find Samantha spending time with her family, taking the motorcycle out for a spin, or baking something incredible.

Jake loves working with small businesses and entrepreneurs because they are in such a transformative stage of business growth; he finds it interesting to be involved in the early stages. As one of our tax associates, he’s responsible for all things relating to tax. He can also be relied upon to offer a helping hand if a task needs an extra team member. When he’s not busy with tax, you will almost certainly find Jake keeping fit outside. Or, he will be free-falling through the air – Jake has his sky-diving license!

Mary Ruth's very first business class in college was accounting, and from day one she knew she was on the right path. As an Account Lead at Walker Glantz, her job is to sort the nitty-gritty daily financial transactions so our clients have an accurate view of their financial status. Mary Ruth has a soft spot for small businesses, having helped out in her parents’ business for a large part of her life. She knows first hand how hard our clients work, and loves being there to celebrate their growth and success. Outside of her professional achievements, she trained hard to grow her running ability from a 5k to a full marathon and is proud that her three daughters have a tangible example of seeing their mom work hard to achieve a goal.

Having always enjoyed puzzles, to Eunji, accounting is no different. One of our tax associates, a favorite aspect of her role is the rewarding feeling of getting the numbers to add up. Eunji handles tax returns and taxation queries at Walker Glantz, and she particularly enjoys meeting many different types of people through her work. Having spent so much time overseas with her husband, who serves in the military, Eunji loves to travel with her two Japanese Spitz. More importantly, she has acquired a penchant for snacks from other countries (and now she’s our go-to for treats when we need a “pick-me-up”).

A driven individual with a passion for learning, Emman takes a thorough approach to his role in Client Accounting Services. Describing it as challenging yet fulfilling, he savors the opportunity to work with clients from a diverse range of industries. Emman possesses a real eye for detail; he will go through your month-over-month balances with a fine-tooth comb to detect any abnormalities. That is, when he’s not sharing his knowledge as our go-to person on Excel tips and tricks. Outside of work, Emman is an avid gamer with a love for cooking. He takes great pride in putting a smile on the faces of those who eat his food, which bodes well for his dream of running his own food truck when he gets old.

The thing Yelitza loves most about her role as an associate is helping others. Acting as a trusted advisor to clients, she eases their worries around payroll and bookkeeping. Yelitza finds it immensely rewarding to help clients understand their finances, as she can see how much of a positive impact it has on their lives. Relishing any opportunity to build trust and establish long-term relationships with business owners, she loves how varied our clients’ industries are. Her investment in people is a value that runs deep, and if Yelitza weren’t in accounting she would be a children’s counselor. Outside of work, she’s an avid baseball fan. In a tradition that stems from her own childhood, she takes her two children to see a game at every chance they get.