Laura Lewis, CPA, is an audit manager for FredrickZink & Associates, performing audit, review, compilation, and consulting services to a variety of businesses in the Four Corners Area, including not-for-profit entities, construction contractors, construction related businesses, and homeowner's associations.

Laura has used her combination of over a decade of public accounting and teaching experience to provide new and growing businesses with a broad variety of creative and practical accounting and business services. Laura is also a QuickBooks Professional Advisor, and has worked with a variety of other accounting software packages, including not-for-profit and construction specific packages, which allows her to provide her clients with a variety of accounting software consulting services.

Laura works toward improving her client's operating efficiency and effectiveness by systematically identifying, assessing, and providing the consulting, accounting, and business service needs of her clients. Calling upon her decade's worth of experience in the not-for-profit and construction industry, Laura tailors her business solutions to meet the unique and frequently changing needs of new and growing businesses.

Prior to joining the firm in mid-2008, Laura taught client's accounting staff in small or one-on-one sessions and in-house training for staff accountants while working in California, and Managerial Accounting at the University of Saskatchewan while obtaining her master's degree. She has also worked as a controller for a floral design school and taught bookkeeping and family financial management workshops in local churches.

Laura received her Bachelor of Science degree, with a concentration in accounting, from California State University, Sacramento and her Masters of Science degree in accounting from the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. Among her notable honors, she was the recipient of a 1994-1995 Fulbright Scholarship to study in Canada and conduct research on accounting issues in the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).

Laura enjoys participating in living history events, hiking with her husband in the mountains surrounding Durango, and has served for over a decade as a volunteer director of a missionary organization based in South Africa.