Sara Lassila is a Certified Public Accountant, Certified Global Management Accountant, and QuickBooks ProAdvisor. She has her own practice located in Orono, Minnesota. Her firm provides accounting services for many service industry, homeowners associations, and nonprofit businesses. The firm also provides income tax consulting and preparation services for business corporations (both for-profit and non-profit), Sub-S corporations, individuals, sole-proprietors, and partnerships.
She has worked with business owners, association board members, and property managers for over 25 years.
Sara specializes in the corporate arena with emphasis in the Common Interest Community and business corporations. Common Interest Communities are homeowner associations such as condominium, townhome, single family, twin home, time share, and cooperative communities.
As a QuickBooks Professional Advisor she provides consulting and support to many small businesses and homeowners associations that use the QuickBooks software.
Sara is a member of the Community Association’s Institute - Minnesota Chapter (CAI-MN). She was Chapter President in 2008 and has served on several Committees.
She has authored several articles for the Minnesota Community Living Magazine and given many educational presentations for CAI-MN and for Association Boards of Directors. Recently, Sara’s Homeowner Association financial statements were selected by Thomson Reuters to be published in the 2016 Trends volume of PPC’s Guide to Preparing Financial Statements. Sara’s example financial statements are available to be used as guides by Certified Public Accountants across the Nation. Sara was also interviewed by HOALeader about tax exempt status for homeowners associations. Her interview was published in the February 5, 2016 Tip of the Week.
She is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), the AICPA Tax and Nonprofit Sections and the Minnesota Society of Certified Public Accountants.
Specialties: Common Interest Community Association accounting and reporting; Business accounting and tax consulting; Individual tax consulting and tax return preparation; QuickBooks software setup, training and support