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Katy LEE, CPA, Owner
Katy absolutely loves accounting and tax preparation and thrives on being busy and learning new things. She prepares and/or reviews all the bookkeeping and tax preparation work performed by the staff at Eclipse Tax & Accounting. She is involved with multiple community boards and committees and is dedicated to serving our community. Katy is a Flathead Valley native and loves to enjoy all our beautiful state has to offer, particularly skiing and spending time at Flathead Lake. Outside of work her hobbies include reading, running, being creative, and spending as much time as possible with her two kids, Kyler (15) and Adilyn (12).
Terry Stevens, CPA
Terry is a CPA licensed in both Montana and Idaho state. He has over 30 years of accounting experience with various business types, including retail, small businesses, contractors, non-profits, and real estate. Terry also has over 15 years of experience preparing individual, business, and payroll taxes and 12 years of QuickBooks background. In his free time, he enjoys being a small business owner and maintaining his Idaho/Montana Real Estate Broker License.
Gary Johnson, CPA
Gary is a CPA licensed in Montana and has over 20 years of experience, specializing in individual income tax preparation. He has also owned and managed numerous rental properties for over 20 years.
Annie Walker, Chaos Coordinator
Annie handles all aspects of intake of the work clients bring in, electronic filing of tax returns, and countless bookkeeping functions for our clients. She spent over 33 years working with the Social Security Administration and brings a very valuable wealth of knowledge to Eclipse Tax & Accounting. Outside of work she spends her time gardening, reading, and spending time with her three grandchildren.
Jessica Sturzen, Senior Accountant
Jessica has been working in the accounting field for 15 years and received her bachelor’s degree in 2008. She is highly experienced in accounting, payroll, QuickBooks and has extensive past tax preparation experience as well. She loves helping business owners be successful by teaching them ways to better track and gauge their day-to-day activities in their business. Outside of work, Jessica loves to camp, craft, and spend time with her family, including her husband and three children.
Doni Dilworth, Receptionist
Doni graduated from Montana State University and worked for many years in the financial services industry in Michigan before moving back to Montana. Since 2014 she has worked in client management in the tax & accounting field and joined Eclipse in the fall of 2021. In her free time, Doni enjoys coaching high school debate, traveling, gardening, and spending time with family.
Christy Peters, Staff Accountant
Christy graduated from the University of Montana in 2015 with a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting. Since then she has had experience in accounting and business management with many businesses from radio to manufacturing companies also started her own bookkeeping business on the side. She likes learning the uniqueness of all business type needs and enjoys helping owners thrive to have success with their businesses. Christy is a Flathead Valley native and loves outdoor hobbies including fly fishing, hiking, and cross-country skiing. She also loves spending time with her husband, 2-year-old son, and newborn baby girl.
Christy Harkins, Staff Accountant
Christy earned her Bachelor’s degree in English Education and worked for 30 years as a high school English Teacher and Head Volleyball Coach retiring in 2022. She loves to spend her free time coaching volleyball and playing at the lake with her children and husband Mark.
Kyler Croft, Staff Accountant
Kyler is a freshman at Glacier High School and is heavily involved with basketball and baseball, and has a 4.0 GPA. He will be playing with the Kalispell Lakers for the upcoming season. As of now, Kyler aspires to be a CPA after college. If his name seems familiar, it’s because Katy Lee, formerly Katy Croft, is his mom!! Outside of his very busy life in sports, Kyler enjoys skiing, hiking and of course, video games.
Austin Cook, Staff Accountant
Austin graduated from Montana State University Billings in 2020 with a Bachelor of Science in Accounting. Ever since he was little he’s had an affinity for numbers, so combined with his high attention to detail and love of learning anything business, Accounting was the obvious career choice. He’s a Kalispell native and enjoys everything northwest Montana has to offer. He especially loves backpacking and camping with his wife and his dog in his spare time.
“I’m very impressed that Eclipse would take the time to learn our program and help us with everyday bookkeeping. Also that you and your office always answer the phone and always take the time to answer questions it seems like at any time. You even help me out when you are visiting relatives in Bozeman!! It’s very nice being able to talk to my CPA about all aspects of my business and to discuss options for now and the future. Katy, I think that you are an irreplaceable part of the West Glacier KOA team. Thank you for all you do.”
– G. McClure, West Glacier, MT
“If you are a small business owner like I am maybe you can relate to how my life used to be. I worked 12 hour days and spent weekends entering bills, paying bills, paying taxes, figuring out payroll, etc. That usually ate up 4 hours or more of either Saturday or Sunday and I’d often worry that I missed something. It was stressful and I was using my rare “free” time still working. That was my life for too long.
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Katy Croft had been my accountant for years and encouraged me to let her take some of that workload off my shoulders so my life could be better. Initially, I was skeptical. I am a hands-on person that has difficulty trusting other people to do things I can do and I generally like to do things myself. Plus, I actually like crunching numbers and didn't want to feel totally out of control of my finances. But something had to change. I began by turning over payroll and all the associated expense responsibilities to her and immediately discovered that it saved me several hours per month (not to mention that I didn’t have to worry that I missed something).
Over a period of a few months, I began giving more and more to Eclipse. Now they take care of all of my payroll including hosting Quickbooks (so I never have to worry about losing my files), taxes, entering invoices, posting deposits, bank statements, bill paying, everything. Weekly I remotely access my Quickbooks file where I can see exactly where my books stand and pick and choose what bills to pay and contact them and it's done. What used to take me 4 hours per week literally takes me about 10 minutes. I'm in the fifth year of freedom from my books controlling my free time and I completely trust Eclipse and will continue to use them as long as I own a business.
– Dr. Clark, Kalispell, MT
“Just wanted to let you know how happy I am to be working with Annie; I’m really impressed how she responds to my emails and how quickly she gets deposits into QuickBooks.”
– H. Herman, Columbia Falls