How often does your company update its approved vendor list? If you are unsure, it is probably a good time to revisit and clean up your listing. The master vendor file within your accounting system determines which vendors and customers your company has vetted to do business with. Without periodic review, it is easy for...

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued final rules regarding the domestic production activities deduction 199A(g) (DPAD) Thursday. The IRS has made the decision to not allow the DPAD to apply to non-member-based business. The Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) completed its review of the final regulations under 199A(g) and plan to reveal guidance...

While you have been dealing with un-cooperative weather this spring and early summer in your operations, we have been busy trying to better ourselves to service your accounting and tax needs. In early May, the Gardiner + Co. staff participated in our annual staff training event in Des Moines. We brought in outside speakers to...

As the calendar has flipped to 2019, I wanted to provide you an update and reminder on accounting standards that may now be in effect or are getting closer to implementation so that you will be prepared. Revenue Recognition (2014-09) In 2014 the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued new revenue recognition standards. The impact...

Under the Tax Cut and Jobs Act of 2017 (TCJA), there exists a “transition rule” for patron farmers who sold grain, milk, livestock or other commodities to the cooperative(s). This transition rule only applies to producers who sold to a cooperative that has other than a calendar year end. For calendar year end cooperatives, the...

It has been a memorable and reflective year for the agricultural industry in general, and in particular for cooperatives with the passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act – 2017 and the subsequent Consolidated Appropriations Act – 2018, Section 199A. Many concerns were raised within the agricultural community of the unintended consequences that the...