Janet Nancy Evans, Chief Financial Officer joined Horizons in 2004. Having grown up in the local school system, Janet continued her education locally and earned her Associate of Arts from Okaloosa-Walton Community College in 1978 and her Bachelor of Arts, Accounting in 1980. Janet became a CPA in 1981 and went on to work at the Atlanta office of an international accounting firm. Upon her return to the Fort Walton Beach area, Janet worked with a local CPA firm and then her own CPA firm until she took an early retirement to manage her boarding stable and teach riding lessons while she raised her son. As he entered middle school, Janet re-entered the workforce, first with an accounting firm and then on to a boat dealership as the controller until the economy took it’s toll and then with the payroll management firm that was utilized by the dealership. A year later, the opportunity at Horizons came up. Janet is still active with her horses on the weekends.
The accounting office provides for the deposit and recording of all revenue and the disbursement/payment for all agency bills. They have two bookkeepers in addition to the CFO who work diligently to maintain Horizons’ high standards of internal control. Monthly financial statements are provided to the Board of Directors and the CEO. Horizons also has an external audit performed by a CPA firm and has received an unqualified opinion for the past 10 years. In addition to the agency records, the office is responsible for the Social Security funds for over 45 clients as their representative payee. The client funds are audited by the Social Security Administration annually. The accounting office also supports the IT needs of the agency with approximately 40 workstations connected to the network including remote locations as far away as Crestview being able to log in to the agency network directly. Approximately 6 years ago, Horizons moved to an electronic time keeping system agency wide that has helped the payroll process become much more manageable by providing real-time information on job staffing, potential overtime and, most importantly, alerts when a job is not staffed.
