Emily Bell, Marketing Manager Thank you to everyone who was able to attend our hospitality room in Minneapolis on December 7th. We have had the pleasure of hosting a hospitality room during this annual event for many years now and were very pleased with the turn out this year! We enjoyed spending time with each...

By: Mark Gardiner, CPA, CFE, Partner Each year Gardiner + Company, CPA’s offers the “Daniel Gardiner Memorial Scholarship” in honor of my dad, founder of Gardiner + Company.  The scholarship is awarded to the current year’s graduates from Waukee High School who plan to attend a post secondary school and pursue a degree in accounting. ...

Dennis Gardiner, Gardiner + Company, CPAs Managing Partner Partners Mark Gardiner, Greg Cargin and myself attended the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives Annual Meeting / Legal, Tax and Accounting Conference last week in Orlando.  We learned about key issues facing co-ops and their members.  USDA Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack was the keynote speaker to...

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...