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Chuck Ulrich, CPA
Michael Ulrich, CPA
Cathie Hurst, CPA
Heather A. Christopherson, CPA
Brandon Olsen, CPA
Lisa K. Hopkins, CPA
Tyler Erikson, CPA
Jennifer Clow
Elaine Bingham
Amy Nelson
Jennifer (Jen) Hart
Bruce Gulso
Kylee Wayment
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Chuck graduated with a Bachelor's degree in accounting from Weber State College in 1979. He began his career with a national CPA firm and at the time the largest in Salt Lake City. His experience included numerous audits of government entities. In 1983 he joined a smaller local firm where he focused more specifically on the audit needs of governmental entities and began providing individual and small business tax and accounting services. In 1986 he started his own firm, which ultimately became the Ulrich & Associates, PC of today.
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Mike has been with Ulrich & Associates for 13 years, with the previous 9 being an owner. He previously worked from 1991 to 1994 with Tanner & Co. CPAs in Salt Lake City, and worked as an assistant controller for Ringmasters, Inc. for 1 year.
Mike graduated from Weber State University 1991 with a Master’s of Accountancy degree. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1990.
Mike was born and raised in Ogden, Utah and is married to his wife Tammy, and they have seven children: Amanda, Jennifer, Kimberly, Eric, Tucker, Coulter, and Easton. His hobbies include boating, waterskiing, snowmobiling, hunting, basketball, and running. He enjoys doing activities with his family, running in the morning, eating steak and seafood, and sitting by the fireplace in the winter. He greatly dislikes dark chocolate. He has dreams of spending a week on a Hawaiian Cruise with his wife, while leaving his kids home to fend for themselves.
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Cathie Hurst, CPA graduated with a Master's degree in accounting from Weber State University in 1998, after obtaining a Bachelor Degree from Weber in 1997. She began her accounting career with the Salt Lake office of KPMG, a nationally ranked CPA firm. She developed her auditing skills while there and then joined Ulrich & Associates in 1999 and has been working mostly with governmental and not for profit entities in providing auditing services. She also does tax return preparation for individuals and small businesses.
Cathie was raised in Wyoming and spent a year in California before making Utah her home. She is married and has 2 children. Other than spending time with her family, she especially enjoys running and biking, but loves the sun and enjoys most any activity that can be done outside (as long as snakes are NOT involved). In her free time, she likes to eat chocolate, think about eating chocolate, then eat more chocolate. However, movies and baking are right up there on the list as well.
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Heather A. Christopherson, CPA
Heather A. Christopherson, CPA graduatedwith a Master's degree in accounting from Weber State University in 2002 after having completed an undergraduate degree from the University of Montana in 2000. She began her accounting career in January of 2000 with Galusha, Higgins, & Galusha in Montana and later moved to Utah and worked for Haynie & Company in Salt Lake. Her experience with these firms included audits of governmental and not for profit entities and tax return preparation for individuals and small businesses. She joined Ulrich & Associates in 2003 and is currently an audit manager. She has continued to develop her expertise in the governmental and not for profit arena, and the various tax areas.
Heather grew up in Montana, and she spent four years in northern California prior to moving to Utah. She enjoys hiking the many trails around Ogden with her dog, biking, and watching her husband and son race motocross. She is bossy and overbearing, but it is all done with the intent of getting the work done.
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Brandon Olsen, CPA graduated with a Bachelor's degree in accounting from Utah State University in 2001. He began his accounting career in 2003 with the Eugene, Oregon office of Moss Adams LLP, one of the largest regional CPA firms in the nation. While there, he developed valuable tax, audit, and consulting experience. In 2006, he moved back to Utah and joined Ulrich & Associates where he currently serves as the firm’s tax manager. He specializes in both personal and business taxes, including various tax planning and consulting needs.
Brandon was raised in Morgan, Utah. He is married to Robyn and has two energetic boys, Kaleb, and Gavin. When not at work, Brandon can be found doing yard work, wrestling with his boys, spending time outside, and cheering for his Utah State Aggies. He especially enjoys rooting for any team playing against BYU and Utah, whether it be football, basketball, or basketweaving. Brandon also enjoys traveling to most any warm weather destination.
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Lisa K. Hopkins, CPA graduated with a Master of Professional Accountancy from Weber State University in 2007 after having completed a B.A. in Economics and a Business Management Minor from the University of California, Irvine in 1989.
She began her accounting career in January 1990 with Allstate Insurance in the Finance and Accounting departments. In 1994, she moved from California to Utah and continued her Allstate career with Surety Life located in downtown Salt Lake City. After leaving Allstate in 1998, her career path led her into construction and land development accounting and in 2001 evolved into an accounting consulting business. In September 2006, she joined Ulrich & Associates bringing with her 14 years of accounting, finance and consulting experience.
Lisa grew up in Southern California and moved to Utah in 1994 after marrying her husband. She is a proud wife and mother of a son. She enjoys being at home with her family. She loves having family and close friends together for BBQs or for an evening at the Gateway in SLC. She enjoys yoga, a good book, cooking and traveling.
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Tyler Erikson, CPA, graduated from the Marriott School of Accountancy at Brigham Young University in 2002 and immediately began his career working in the Seattle office of PricewaterhouseCoopers. At PwC, Tyler specialized in audits of corporations in the real estate, insurance, manufacturing and banking industries. Tyler joined Ulrich & Associates in 2009 as an Audit Manager and is enjoying working with business clients as well as gaining experience with governmental and not-for-profit accounting.
Tyler grew up in Southeastern Idaho and he and his wife, Chai, have a little boy named Camden. The Eriksons love to participate in almost any outdoor activity including rock climbing, backpacking, and mountaineering as well as traveling around the world. Before Camden was born, they spent time trekking through the rainforests of Southeast Asia and Central America. They are also boosters of BYU’s athletic program--especially the football team--and look forward to gamedays at Lavell Edwards Stadium.
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Jennifer joined Ulrich & Associates in 2008. She was previously employed with the State of Utah, Division of Securities as an Administrative Assistant.
Jennifer enjoys many outdoor activities, including hiking and camping, playing and watching various sports, volunteering at the Elementary school that her daughters attend, and teaching Young Women in her church calling.
Jennifer and her 3 beautiful children, Cody, Jessica, and Kyra reside in West Roy. They also have a 3 year old black lab, Max, who is the family pet. He has been demoted from family member to mere pet status after chewing up Jennifer’s Eeyore slippers.
Jennifer enjoys traveling with a purpose. Whether it be historical locations, exploring new places, or being active on adventurous destinations, she is not one to lay on a beach or sit on a tour bus. She has recently committed herself to a humanitarian expedition in South America in the summer of 2010.
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Elaine is the office manager and has worked for Ulrich & Associates since 1990. She previously worked as Office Manager at Intermountain Sexual Abuse Treatment Center and Receptionist at Utah Power and Light.
Elaine grew up in Utah. After her marriage, she moved to Las Vegas for 7 years and then moved back to Utah to raise her family. Elaine and her husband decided that Nevada was no place to raise a family. She enjoys horseback riding, camping and traveling. She has eight grandchildren with one on the way. Her main objective is to try and stay on top of everything and to not get behind.
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Amy Nelson has been with Ulrich & Associates for 16 years as an accountant. She started working for the firm after she received an accounting certificate from the ATC in Ogden, Utah. Her experience includes client compilations and bank reconciliations, preparing payroll tax returns, sales tax returns, personal property return, income tax returns, reviewing client files, and helping clients with Quickbooks and payroll issues. She is also the office expert in Quickbooks.
Amy has lived in Utah all of her life. She enjoys sending time with her husband and their 2 teenage kids. She likes to solve puzzles, playing games, having fun and 4 wheeling.
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Jen has worked as payroll manager for Ulrich & Associates for over 4 years, with her previous 10 years working at various other employers doing all types of accounting and payroll. She received her Associate’s degree from Stevens-Henager College of Business.
Jen is married and has two daughters that are very active with gymnastics. In her spare time, she enjoys reading, spending time with her family and attending many gymnastics events.
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Bruce R. Gulso joined the firm in December 2008. After earning a Bachelor degree from Weber State University in 2008, Bruce received his Master’s degree in accounting from Weber State University in 2009.
Bruce grew up in the Bountiful area and currently resides in beautiful Woods Cross. Bruce’s hobbies include camping, riding four wheelers, and working with his hands. Bruce has two energetic boys who always keep him on his toes.
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Kylee joined the Ulrich & Associates team in 2008 for a professional internship and she never wants to leave. She will receive her Bachelor’s degree in accounting from Weber State University in May. Kylee has enjoyed learning from and working with the staff at Ulrich & Associates. She excels in her accounting course work and finds applying her knowledge to real accounting situations rewarding. Kylee’s dream was to perform, she originally came to Weber State University to major in Music Theater. Perhaps by chance she enrolled in an accounting course her first semester and found the subject intriguing and more practical than a career on Broadway, thus developing a new dream. She plans to pursue a Master’s degree in accounting and become a CPA.
Kylee tries to come up with enough free time to squeeze in long runs, update her blog, sing, put together game nights, try new recipes, and go country dancing with her husband Ryan. She loves basically everything, except mushrooms and not getting enough sleep.
