Meet the Team

Suzanne Kaczmarek and Cindy Luhman joined forces for the 2021 tax year. Suzanne is working towards retirement and has reduced her hours to part time during the tax season.

Cindy grew up on a farm in central Minnesota, graduated with an accounting degree from St. Cloud State University and obtained her Masters of Business Administration from the Carlson School of Business at the University of Minnesota.  She has been in public accounting for over 25 years.  Over the years she has worked for several different accounting firms in the Twin Cities and later in central Minnesota. She started her own practice in 2005 after moving to Cokato. 

While working in the Twin Cities metro area, she was a lead accountant on several larger business audits, reviews, compilations and their corresponding tax returns.  Since moving to Wright County, she has focused on smaller business needs such as payroll, bookkeeping, tax planning, and tax preparation for small to medium sized businesses.  This is where her passion lies, in assisting local businesses in achieving their goals.

Cindy and her family moved to Cokato in 2004 with the desire to raise their kids in a small community with a good selection of schools in the area, and within a decent commute to the Twin Cities.  The small hobby farm they found just north of Cokato checked all those boxes.  This area has so much to offer, and that is what drew them here.

Outside of the office, Cindy enjoys spending time with her family, camping, horseback riding, hunting, working on projects and doing chores on their farm.

Suzanne has provided over 40 years of tax, accounting, bookkeeping and payroll services to her clients in Dassel, Cokato and surrounding communities. Over her career, she has handled many complex issues for her clients, and is a trusted advisor. She is a past member the Cokato Rotary, and served on the board at Cokato Charitable Trust. In her off-time, Suzanne enjoys time at the lake with her family.

Wendy Halonen

Wendy joined the team in November of 2021 as our Administrative Assistant. Wendy is the first person you will meet when coming to our office. Her responsibilities include, but are not limited to, answering phone calls, making appointments, assembling tax returns, filing, organizing and assisting the team in tax return preparations. Her background skills in bookkeeping, problem solving and developing processes are what makes her great at her job. In her free time, Wendy likes to garden, work on the farm tending to her chickens, turkeys, sheep and goats. But most of all she loves to spend time with her children, their spouses and her six grandchildren.