As I think back over the past years, I find today strikingly different. Your industries, the current business environment and societal changes have directed our training, planning, and working environment to focus in areas not thought about in the past. Less than one half of our recent staff training agenda was dedicated to technical topics...

This June, I spent a week in Nashville, Tennessee attending the Annual Certified Fraud Examiner Conference. I’ve attended the majority of these throughout the years, as it’s a great way to pick up continuing education hours, network, and listen to numerous speakers on a wide array of fraud topics. This year, there were over 3,000...

Each year Gardiner + Company offers the Daniel Gardiner Memorial Scholarship in honor of my dad, founder of Gardiner + Company. The scholarship is awarded to this year’s graduate from Waukee High School who plans to attend a post secondary school and pursue a degree in accounting. This year’s winner is Sinjin Smith, who will...

The Transformational Leadership Program is a one-year accelerated “finishing school” for CPA and consulting firm new partners and emerging leaders. The TLP focuses first on individual mindset and behavior to drive change in thinking and personal responsibility, followed by strategies and actions to prepare them to lead their firm into the future. Congratulations to Robert...

Each year Gardiner + Company CPAs offers the Daniel Gardiner Memorial Scholarship in honor of my dad, founder of Gardiner + Company. The scholarship is awarded to this year’s graduates from Waukee High School in Iowa who plans to attend a post-secondary school and pursue a degree in accounting. This year’s winner is Ella Pedersen,...

In my last article, I wrote about what had become the new work environment at Gardiner + Company as a result of the pandemic. What we learned during the pandemic is that we are able to perform our primary job functions as efficiently working remote as being in our offices (or yours). Our profession is...