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Gardiner + Co. is honored to announce Elizabeth Thyer’s 20th anniversary with the company! In her time here Elizabeth has been a critical part of our success, and an invaluable resource for our clients—especially our municipal and government clients. Those who have worked with Elizabeth know she’s constantly learning and challenging herself to better support...

Each year the company offers the Daniel Gardiner Memorial Scholarship in honor of my dad, founder of Gardiner + Company. The scholarship is awarded to Waukee High School graduates who plan to attend a post-secondary school and pursue a degree in accounting. This year, there were three candidates awarded scholarships. The three candidates will each...

The Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) has issued two new statements that will be implemented for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2019. The first is GASB Statement No. 83, Certain Asset Retirement Obligations (GASB 83). This statement establishes the accounting and financial reporting standards for legal obligations to retire certain assets. For this standard...

Over the past several years we have seen many of our clients enter into interest rate swap agreements in an effort to stabilize interest expense. An interest rate swap is a forward contract in which one stream of future interest payments are exchanged for another based on a specified principal amount. The most common type...

During the last week in June, I attended the 30th Annual ACFE Global Fraud Conference in Austin, Texas. There were over 3,400 attendees from 60 different countries. They included individuals who worked in law enforcement, corporate governance, cyber security and risk management. There were only about 10-12 of us who were CPAs and worked in...

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...