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The Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) has issued Statement No. 84, Fiduciary Activities and this new standard will be implemented for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2020. This standard changes the definition of a fiduciary activity, establishes criteria for identifying fiduciary activities, and establishes reporting standards for fiduciary activities. One of the major changes...

The Association of Certified Fraud Examiners released their 2020 edition of the Report to the Nations fraud study this month. This study contains over 2,500 cases of occupational fraud that were investigated between January 2018 and January 2019. Although this represents a small fraction of the actual number of frauds committed each year, this study...

Iowa DPAD DeductionThe Tax Cuts and Jobs Act 2017 (TCJA) removed section 199 from the Internal Revenue Code (IRC), which created several unintended consequences. In response, Congress introduced Section §199A(g), which essentially re-instated the federal Domestic Production Activities Deduction (DPAD) deduction. As a result, the State of Iowa announced Tax Reform Guidance regarding the DPAD...

As you know, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act was signed into law on March 27th, 2020. Part of this law provided aid to businesses in the form of Payroll Protection Program (PPP) loans; which were intended to be forgivable to the extent that these loans were utilized for certain payroll-related costs....

On June 5, 2020, President Trump signed into law the PPP Flexibility Act of 2020. This amends the PPP giving borrowers more freedom or flexibility in spending the PPP funds and retaining the possibility of full forgiveness. Some key takeaways are as follows: + Forgiveness period was increased to 24 weeks, up from 8 weeks,...

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...