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 their investments on their own, and the importance of strong accounting practices. So, give us a little bit of your time, and listen in to learn more.

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 organization dedicated to helping people navigate our increasingly complicated healthcare system. Jenny talks about what drove her to create Black Hills Advocate, the challenges of starting her own business, and what she wishes those in healthcare could do a little differently to help patients. So, join us as we fanboi and fangurl out, and listen in to learn more! The Unicorn Projects — Jenny and Tina’s podcast The Unicorn Projects Jenny & Tina YouTube channel Our605Life on Facebook Our605Life on Instagram Casey Peterson’s guide to help you with end-of-life planning

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 the bill lives up to its beautiful name. Update: How the One Big Beautiful Bill Act Changes Taxes for Families, Seniors, and Businesses What so the Big Beautiful Bill’s new overtime rules mean for ag producers? From USAFacts: How do taxes work?

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 Evangelist, Yutaka Takagi, sat down with us to discuss what the research shows and some practical applications employers can use to improve employee engagement. Listen in to learn more! Surveys mentioned in this episode: HR Leaders Voice of the Workforce

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 didn’t necessarily get a whole bunch simpler. Shareholder Mark Lyons hits some of the highlights of these changes that impact these facilities that serve such a vital role in our rural communities. Listen in to learn more!   Previous Mark episodes Medicare Bad Debt Funded depreciation and rural healthcare Funded Depreciation and Rural Healthcare Mark’s Path to Glory Rural Health Clinics & Fruit Pizza Rural Health Clinics Part II Fun With Allowable Costs and Activities and Medicare Advantage Plans Healthcare Allocation Statistics Your Business and Inflation

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 to know about taxes, and how to avoid common mistakes. And just when we thought we were only discussing IRAs, things got real. Suddenly, we were talking about feelings behind money decisions and financial therapy, which is another super cool thing Emily is certified in. So, come for the technical knowledge about IRAs, and stay for how you feel about the dollars in that IRA. Listen in to learn more! What is the Medicare income-related monthly adjustment amount? Our wealth management services with Avantax Other Avantax podcasts GAAP Episode 025 – Meet Laura Gillen from Avantax GAAP Episode 007 – Actively Managed Portfolios AAP Episode 006 – What Exactly is a Fiduciary?

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 under Medicare rules, the challenges of collecting bad debt, and how healthcare facilities can minimize those challenges. This is an especially good episode for healthcare providers trying to wrap their arms and heads around all the rules … or for anyone who enjoys obscure government regulation trivia. So, good debt or bad debt, you’re going to want to listen in to learn more! Resources Frequently Asked Questions about Medicare Bad Debt Previous Mark episodes Funded Depreciation and Rural Healthcare Mark’s Path to Glory Rural Health Clinics & Fruit Pizza Rural Health Clinics Part II Fun With Allowable Costs and Activities and Medicare Advantage Plans Healthcare Allocation Statistics Your Business and Inflation

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 sound complicated? Yes. Is it? Also yes. Fortunately, Mark’s super knowledgeable and super good about explaining the complexities. There’s lots of good info in this episode, so give it a listen to learn more!

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 their experiences, how they got into accounting and the Miles Education program, what it’s like working for Casey Peterson, and most importantly, where they get their groceries from. So, listen in to learn more. 

We sit down with shareholder Zach Van Sambeek to talk about what you should bring to your appointment to save yourself some time and money.

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 feeeeeeeeeelings, which probably makes most accountants nervous, as it should. Anyway, if you’re short on time and just want to know the absolute Cannot Miss Podcasts of the past year, listen in to learn more! Also, Jason Staats, we’re coming for you. Not, like, in a threatening way. We’re just gonna have you as a guest eventually. Our Favs of 2024, not in the order they appear in this episode: GAAP Episode 025 – Meet Laura Gillen from Avantax GAAP Episode 023 – Rural Health Clinics & Fruit Pizza GAAP Episode 021 – Meet Casey Peterson GAAP Episode 026 – All About Audit and Attest Honorable Mentions: GAAP Episode 028 – Energy Incentives and Future Taxes with Dave McGuire GAAP Episode 029 – Mark’s Path to Glory

We sit down with managing shareholder Mark Lyons to learn about his journey of how he ended up where he is today. Listen in to learn more!

We sit down with Dave McGuire of McGuire Sponsel (our cost segregation partner) and discuss energy incentives and the tax implications of future elections.

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. It’s also a heckuva an episode if you just like to nerd out about tax regulations or enjoy squirreling away knowledge not a lot of other folks have. You know you want to: Listen in to learn more! Note: Dave references a lot of forms, regulations, and other details about cost seg and depreciation. So below are resources to define those references. Rev prop 8765 (pdf) ITC tax credits Component depreciation 179 expensing Bonus depreciation 168 k 2005 IRS audit techniques guide 1031 exchange Passive income Tax & Jobs Act Tax rates

We talk to CPA, shareholder, and vice president of our attest services team, Deidre Budahl. Deidre corrects all the misconceptions about audits, and talks about how your nonprofit, school, or government entity can pick the right level of service.

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 talks about how she got into the industry, what she loves about it, and how much of a huge nerd she is, which, honestly, is one of our favorite parts about her. Learn more about Laura!

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 not going to say chaos ensued. But the parts that we are able to release to the public are as insightful as they are entertaining. Don’t miss this episode! Micki Lyons, DNP-C, CEO bio Mark Lyons, CPA, Managing Shareholder, Board President bio

It’s the first Generally Accepted Accounting Podcast Happy Hour! For our first-ever installment, we did a first-of-its-kind interview with Micki Lyons, CEO and Family Nurse Practitioner with Crook County Medical Services District — one of the firm’s clients — in Sundance, Wyoming. Micki has multiple nursing degrees, including a Bachelor of Science in Nursing, a Master of Science in Nursing, a Doctorate of Nursing Practice, and a Natural Health Certification. Before joining CCMSD as a provider, Micki served as a registered nurse for the facility in the hospital and emergency departments for seven years. She also worked as a school nurse for Crook County School District for 13 years. Oh, also, she’s married to our managing shareholder, Mark Lyons, who also joined in the interview. This is a two-parter, and for the first part, it was almost all business, specifically rural health care clinic business. Micki did a deep dive, talking about different types of rural healthcare clinics, the challenges they face, why the clinics are so important, and what keeps her coming back. Oh, and also, fruit pizza. Yeah. The link’s below. Micki Lyons, DNP-C, CEO bio Mark Lyons, CPA, Managing Shareholder, Board President bio What’s a rural health clinic? NPR: Older Americans say they feel trapped in Medicare Advantage plans Glazed fruit pizza (Not for Mark)

Our managing shareholder, Mark Lyons, is back as we continue our healthcare series. This time, we start with Medicare allowable costs and activities. And then, we enter into the seedy underbelly of Medicare Advantage Plans. … OK, it’s not all that seedy, but it sure makes things complicated for critical access hospitals. Anyway, you’ll learn about the difference between allowable costs and activities vs. unallowable costs and activities (turns out, those are not illegal things), different kinds of cost centers, and why Mark gets pretty fired up when it comes to TVs and telephones in hospital rooms. So, listen in to learn more! Hospitals are dropping Medicare Advantage plans left and right Trouble with Medicare Advantage Plans High-level info about cost reports

In 1977, a young accountant named Casey Peterson decided to take a bit of a risk and start his own firm. He did so, in part, because he thought there might be a better way to do business and relate to clients and employees. More than 45 years later, a couple of those employees sat down with him to ask what he meant by “a better way,” what he’s learned during all those years … and what it’s like to have your name on a big building. Casey, like any good western South Dakotan, is a heckuva storyteller, so you’re gonna like this one. Listen in to learn more about how Casey Peterson, LTD came to be!   Meet Casey Peterson, CPA, AEP, PFS, Founder, Shareholder Follow Casey on Twitter (or X or whatever Elon decides to call it next) Follow Casey on LinkedIn