Generally Accepted Accounting Podcast

We're issuing our first-ever Generally Accepted Accounting Alert! If the IRS charged you a penalty during COVID, you might be entitled to a refund. Listen in to learn more, and check the links below for handy resources on this evolving tax case. Casey Peterson, LTD blog: IRS Penalty Refunds May Be Available for COVID-Era Tax Filings IRS Form 843 IRS instructions for Form 843 Taxpayer Advocate Serv...

For this episode, we’re focusing on some recent tax headlines. In about 10 minutes, you’ll hear about an IRS notice that’s causing consternation and how it’s related to the government moving away from paper checks, a calculator that shows what your federal taxes pay for, and what employers need to know about remote and hybrid work when it comes to payroll. Listen in to learn more! IRS Notice CP53E...

That's right, we're back with Part 2! For background information on the Rural Health Transformation Program, be sure to listen to Part 1 here . In this episode, we dig further into the details and talk about how the funds are being distributed, and what rural healthcare facilities need to know. Whether you’re part of a rural healthcare facility, receive care from one, or like to keep up on the eve...

There’s a recurring theme in every episode we do about healthcare, and it goes something like this: This stuff’s really complicated. (Listen, we didn’t say it was an earth-shattering theme). Anyhoo, the recently created Rural Healthcare Transformation Program is no different. In fact, there are so many moving parts, we had to break this episode into two episodes. Shareholder and CPA Kelly Klein —...

If you’ve ever had questions about depreciation, bonus depreciation, or section 179 deduction, you’re a nerd, and this quick-hit podcast is for you. Shareholder, CPA, PFS, and CVA Zach Van Sambeek explains what depreciation is, how it works, and how it changed under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Listen in to learn more! Is bonus depreciation permanent? GAAP Episode 031 – What to Bring to Your Ta...

Although “financial lifestyle creep” might sound like a lost verse to a Radiohead hit , that’s not actually what we’re talking about on this episode. Shareholder and CPA, Kayce Gerlach , and senior associate and CPA, Shay Casey , offer some solid, not-preachy advice about how to avoid the trap of spending more just because you make more. They talk about how lifestyle creep happens, how to spot it,...

It’s episode 42 of the podcast, and for fans of “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy,” you know that means this one’s the answer to everything. Fittingly enough, the topic is financial therapy , and it might very well be the answer to everything. Our guest for this episode is financial therapist Rick Kahler from Kahler Financial Group. Rick explains what financial therapy is, what drew him to the fie...

It’s that special, magical time of the year! Sure, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year’s … those are great. But we’re talking about getting ready for the 2025 tax season! CPA Lori Larson offers five quick-hit tips for individuals and businesses so you can plan ahead now without having to add any extra stress to your holiday season. So, listen in to learn more! IRS Tax Withholding Estimator Retiremen...

If you think charitable giving is just writing a check and hoping for the best, this episode might give you a little food for thought. Our guest is Dr. Eric Zimmer, Vice President of Philanthropy and Special Projects for Black Hills Area Community Foundation. He explains what the foundation does, why donors should consider investing their funds with the foundation, rather than trying to manage the...

We don’t usually get famous people on the pod (OK, we never get famous people on the pod, even if all of our guests are stars to us), so this episode’s extra exciting. Jenny Schmidt and her wife, Tina, have garnered a huge social media following on TikTok and other platforms. But for this episode, Jenny talked about her day job doing incredibly important work through Black Hills Advocate , an orga...

Today we’re talking about the One Big Beautiful Bill , which, still surprisingly, is the name of the latest tax legislation and not a Netflix rom-com. Our tax expert, shareholder Kayce Gerlach , is back on the pod to break it all down — what’s in it for individuals, what’s in it for businesses, which tax breaks got a second life, and what shiny new benefits just showed up. So, listen in to see if...

You might have noticed that discussions about the topic of “work” have been all over the board since the pandemic. Whether it was “quiet quitting” or “nobody wants to work anymore,” it’s been hard to get any kind of consensus. So, our HR and payroll partners at isolved started doing research, asking employees and businesses their thoughts about today’s workplace. Isolved’s Principal Product Evange...

New Rural Health Clinic Standards If you’ve listened to any of our previous episodes about rural healthcare, you’ve probably come to the not-surprising conclusion that, well, this stuff is complicated. When you add in new rural healthcare clinic standards — including issues like vaccines, roster billing, billing in real time, productivity standards, chronic care management, and more — well, things...

Episode 35: Roth IRA conversions and financial therapy Any time the markets get a little extra wonky , questions come up about Roth IRA conversions. So, we sat down with Emily Millsap — a Certified Financial Planner® and Certified Exit Planning Advisor™ with our friends at Avantax — to talk through the details. Emily covered who should and shouldn’t consider converting their traditional IRA , what...

Healthcare organizations nationwide are navigating tighter margins and shrinking reimbursement rates. That’s why considering opportunities from Medicare bad debt is one way to find additional reimbursements. If the term “bad debt” makes you wonder what “good debt” is, our shareholder and healthcare expert Mark Lyons breaks it all down. Mark explains what types of bad debt are and aren’t allowable...

Rural healthcare continues to be a hot-button topic. So, we brought back one of our frequent guests, Mark Lyons — who heads up our healthcare team — to talk about a kind of niche topic — funded depreciation. Mark defines what it is, talks about some scenarios, and gives advice about the approach that healthcare facilities can take to use funded depreciation for long-term capital planning. Does it...

In the past year, Casey Peterson, LTD has hired some team members who are part of the Miles Education program. These new team members have come to work in the firm’s various offices by way of India with some stops along the way in U.S. communities that were quite a bit larger and different than Nebraska , South Dakota , and Wyoming. So, we sat down with Venkata and Madhuri , to ask them about thei...

If you’re dreading visiting your CPA or accountant this tax season, no need to fear! One of our newest shareholders, Zach Van Sambeek, a CPA and CVA, is here to let you know what you should bring to your appointment to save yourself some time and money. Zach explains what information is helpful to have on hand whether you need your individual, business, or ag taxes filed. And as an added bonus, we...

If you were disappointed by your results from Spotify’s Wrapped this year, we’ve got something to lift your spirits. It’s the Top 3 Casey Peterson, LTD GAAP episodes of 2024! Now, did we use listener feedback and data analytics to compile this highly scientific list? Pfffff, absolutely not. Evan and Hillary just picked the three podcasts they liked best. That’s right; it’s all based on feeeeeeeeee...

Have you often thought that the path to managing shareholder of a mid-sized Midwestern CPA firm was full of wonder and glory? Have you actually ever considered the path of a managing shareholder at all? … Yeah, we thought not. Either way, Casey Peterson, LTD’s own managing shareholder, Mark Lyons, a frequent guest of the podcast, talks about how he ended up where he did. It’s not at all the journe...

It’s part two of our conversation with Dave McGuire of McGuire Sponsel , our cost segregation partner! Last time was all cost seg all the time. This time, we talk about some of the new energy incentives, how businesses can utilize them, and discuss what could happen after the upcoming election (it doesn’t get political, promise). Energy incentives are always a hot topic that can get confusing. But...

Today’s episode is part one of our conversation with Dave McGuire of McGuire Sponsel , our new partner that helps with cost segregation studies . We’re revisiting our very first episode about cost seg and depreciation to get into some more details. This is a great episode for businesses looking for ways to possibly increase their cash flow or decide if a cost segregation study is right for them. I...

Audit, review, compilation, agreed-upon-procedures … oh my. It’s a podcast all about attest services. … Wait! Where are you going?! You’re going to want to hear this one, promise!   On today’s episode, we talk to CPA, shareholder, and vice president of our attest services team, Deidre Budahl. Deidre corrects all the misconceptions about audits (they’re not that scary, and in fact, your organizatio...

Welcome to another Generally Accepted Accounting Podcast Happy Hour! This one’s with Laura Gillen, Certified Financial Planner, who works for Avantax, our firm’s wealth management and financial services planning partner. Laura’s taken a kind of nontraditional path to financial planning, and that’s given her a unique perspective on the industry and helping clients with their financial goals. She ta...

Here’s part two of the first-ever Generally Accepted Accounting Podcast Happy Hour! We’re back with the CEO and Family Nurse Practitioner, Micki Lyons. Micki leads one of the firm’s clients, Crook County Medical Services District, and is married to our firm’s managing shareholder, CPA Mark Lyons. For part two, we turned the Q&A mostly over to Micki and Mark so they could quiz each other. We’re...