Our Staff - Company Biographies - Accounting Services

Sandy Furuya
Sandy Furuya is the Senior Accounting Manager of the Accounting Department. She has significant experience advising individual as well as business clients with tax matters. Sandy's department has also implemented electronic payroll processes that have saved clients valuable time and money. She also assists new companies starting up. Her passion is taxes and she enjoys the hustle and bustle of tax season. She prepares over 375 individual, trust, business, and non-profit income tax returns.

Sandy received a Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration with an emphasis in accounting from the University of Missouri in 1985. She also just became an Enrolled Agent in 2009.

Sandy is involved with the non-profit organization "Just Because We Care". She has been fortunate to go on the annual work trip each January and is currently the Treasurer. Each year when Sandy returns she is ready to go back the following year. "It is so gratifying to help these children and know we are making a difference in their community!" says Sandy. She also is currently a treasurer of the Lutheran Campus Ministry.

In her spare time, Sandy enjoys spending time with her husband Don and two children, Janelle and Derek. Their family is actively involved with soccer and Sandy also enjoys golf and walking her dog, Alex.

Susan Taylor
Susan Taylor relocated to this area November of 2005 coming from Savannah, GA. She started working for Wamhoff in April 2007 as a Tax Accountant and feels very fortunate to have been chosen to be an employee of Wamhoff. She believes that all of the staff at Wamhoff strives to keep each and every one of their clients satisfied. She comes from a strong diverse background in Accounting, Business Administration, Medical Technology and Information Technology, of which she has gained an extensive understanding in client-relations, team cohesion and business planning. She believes in maintaining a strong proactive approach when working with clients and their trusting her with their proprietary information.

On a more personal note, she has five grown children and two grandsons that she truly adores. Her oldest grandson is two years old and lives in Atlanta, GA and her other grandson is three months old and lives here in Missouri. After work she enjoys reading, watching movies and spending quality time with her family.

Lorene Horton
Lorene Horton began working for Wamhoff Financial Planning and Accounting in October of 2002 and enjoys keeping her clients organized, informed, and happy.

Lorene enjoys her relationship with her clients- giving each of them personal attention.

Lorene has three children, one in the Marine Corp, two in college. In her spare time she enjoys spending time with her family. She is extremely active with their activities and always looks forward to visits with her grown children who are away from home.

Jane Osborn
Jane Osborn a Payroll Analyst has been working for Wamhoff Accounting since 1999 processing payroll for over 20 clients and keeping up with the books the bookkeepers get ready for keying and payables for 5 different clients. At year-end Jane processes W-2's and 1099's and during Tax Season she releases the taxes for clients after the E-File Signature form has been signed and tracks their acceptance. Jane received her experience from working at several top companies like: MFA Insurance, Missouri University, Kroger, Angelica Healthcare, National Garment and National Services and all in Data Processing. At Kroger she became the night Manager in Data Processing with three girls under her supervision.

Jane graduated from Ferguson High School and took up Keypunch at a trade school and then took several classes at Florissant Community College taking Personal Computer Classes learning word processing, database, spreadsheets and a class in computer art.

Jane's interest away from work is spending time with her husband, Gene of 47 years, her two sons and their families. Jane has four grandchildren, two boys and two girls. The oldest Granddaughter just graduated this year from UMSL and is a registered nurse, her Brother just graduated from Central High School and received a partial soccer Scholarship at Fontbonne College where his major will be business. The other two Grand -children live in San Diego with her son and his wife, her son is in the Navy and plans staying in the Navy for retirement. The kids attend Dewey Elementary School and are in 3rd and 4th grade and their grades are excellent. The two of them are taking Karate lessons and are doing well moving up from one belt to the next.

Jan Hart
Jan joined the team at Wamhoff Financial Planning and Accounting in January 2005. She is a part-time employee and can be found on the accounting side of the office three days a week.

Jan has a B.S. degree in Medical Technology from Missouri State University (formerly Southwest Missouri State University). She spent many years working in hospital laboratories. Working in accounting was a change for her, however, both workplaces are very detail-oriented and she feels just as comfortable in the office setting as she did in a clinical laboratory.

Jan's hobbies include rubber stamping, cooking, and Sudoku puzzles. She enjoys spending time with her family and seeing my grandchildren as much as possible

Diane Lemen
Diane came to work in the accounting department in September 1995. She currently handles both monthly and quarterly accounts taking care of all their payroll and bookkeeping needs. The part she enjoys most about her job is the interaction with her clients. Since she has such a variety of accounts to work on it always keeps things interesting.

When she is not busy at work, her other interest are her son's music career, taking care of her cats and gardening.

Eva Alford
Eva has over 30 years accounting experience in a variety of settings. Her main strength is corporate taxes including payroll, sales & use, income and franchise. "Tax accounting is never boring because no two situations are the same." Eva's goal is to stay on top of the ever changing regulations so she can provide accurate financial statements and tax returns in a timely manner.

Eva and her husband, Tom, who is retired from the Air Force, have two grown children. She is active in Girl Scouts and church. In her spare time, Eva likes to read, work logic puzzles, and travel to new places.

Erica Blazevic
Erica Blazevic joined the Wamhoff team in late October of 2009. As Payroll Analyst she takes care of processing payroll for over 20 clients and keeping up with the books the bookkeepers get ready for keying. At year-end Erica processes W-2's and 1099's and during Tax Season she releases the taxes for clients after the E-File Signature form has been signed and tracks their acceptance. Erica is very grateful to be part of the Wamhoff family and is looking forward to a long future with the company.

Outside of work Erica enjoys spending time with her longtime boyfriend Mark, her friends and her family. Erica is a huge St. Louis Cardinals fan and can usually be found at the games.