SARA M. LASSILA, CPA, CGMA, CERTIFIED QUICKBOOKS PROADVISOR Sara Lassila is a Certified Public Accountant, Chartered Global Management Accountant, and QuickBooks ProAdvisor. She has her own practice located in Orono, Minnesota. Her firm provides accounting services for many service industry, contractors, 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 30 years. Sara specializes in the corporate area 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. Annual tax, annual audit or review services, quarterly or monthly accounting are all services the firm provides to homeowner associations. As a QuickBooks Professional Advisor she provides consulting and support to many businesses and homeowners associations that use the QuickBooks software. She served as President of the Community Association’s Institute - Minnesota Chapter (CAI-MN) in 2008. 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. Sara’s Homeowner Association financial statements were selected by Thomson Reuters to be published in the 2020 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. In September 2021, she was the speaker for CIC-Midwest’s Coffee and CIC program on Financial Statements, Budgeting, Reserves and Taxation for HOA’s. She is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), the AICPA Tax Section, National Association of Tax Professionals, and the Minnesota Society of Certified Public Accountants.