Generally Accepted Accounting Podcast

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 indu...

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...

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 Na...

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 activ...

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. ...

GAAP Episode 20 – Our Biggest Blog Topics of 2023

Who doesn’t love a good retrospective?

People love Spotify’s “Wrapped” so much that we figured, “You know what they’d love more? A look back on our top accounting blogs in 2023!”

No need to thank us.

Anyway, we’ll take a look at how come your tax refund might have been smaller, what businesses need to know about e-filing, deductible medical expenses, and — the ever-popular — ERC sca...

For a lot of ag producers, the end of the year means it’s time to find ways to lower their tax burden by spending and deferring. But shareholder and CPA Leah Heidler argues that a profitability mindset is a better way to approach this time of year. She outlines her argument, provides some practical applications, and — like any good rancher — talks about the weather. Oh, and also cheese making. We cover a lot of ground (land?), so l...

If accounting makes you picture some grumpy old dude hunched over a spreadsheet, we’ve got good news (unless you like grumpy old dudes hunched over spreadsheets). Despite what TV and the movies have told us, the profession has a lot more nuances. Two of our team members — Cady Erb and Tyler McCarthy — talk about what drew them to the profession and what makes them stick around. So, if you want to learn what the profession’s really ...

Have you ever wondered about the two yahoos behind the mic? No? Well, that’s a shame because they’re as interesting as they are hilarious … mostly. Also, they realized that after almost 20 podcast episodes, they’ve never actually said who they are or why they’re doing what they’re doing. And so, this podcast was born. Even if you don’t want to learn about two random podcast hosts you’ll probably never meet in real life, you should ...

In case you couldn’t get enough of the robots the first time around (no, we don’t mean our AI experts Mark Erickson and Ryan Nankivel), we’re back with part two of the basics of AI! You’ll get more ethical and business discussions and some bonus anecdotes. And it’s all original content not generated by ChatGPT or anything! Probably! Embrace the future, and listen in to learn more.

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AI ethical considerations you might not h...

If terms like “artificial intelligence” or ChatGPT fill you with dread, uncertainty, or confusion, this episode is for you. Two of our resident AI experts sat down with us to define a lot of terms and talked about what different types of AI do. We also discussed business — and ethical — considerations and kicked around some anecdotes to try to make the topic a little more concrete.

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The WIRED Guide to Artificial Intelligen...

We get a lot of questions about capital gains. Are they good? Bad? Does it just depend? In this episode, our resident tax experts — Shareholder and Tax Vice President Kayce Gerlach and Senior Associate Garth Sandberg — give you just enough details without bogging you down with too much information. So, you’ll learn about what capital gains are, what they mean for stocks, how they affect the sale of your home or rental property, wha...

GAAP Episode 013 – Nursing Home Star Ratings

Whether you manage a nursing home, work in one, or are considering one for a loved one, this episode is for you. Our resident nursing home experts, Charles Frizzell and Jackie Jermolenko, discuss the three main criteria for determining a nursing home’s star rating. There’s also the obligatory joke about PBJ not relating to a sandwich. And some bonus material about reimbursements for nurs...

Today we're talking with our Firm Administrator, Vanessa Kaiser. Vanessa is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, which means her background isn't in spreadsheets and numbers *gasp* but instead, she's worked with people and feelings! We talk about Vanessa's unique perspective as a non-traditional hire working for an accounting firm, mental health in the accounting industry, and what the future holds as younger generations advance in t...

This week, we sit down with managing shareholder Mark Lyons to discuss the ins-and-outs of allocation statistics and how they can impact healthcare cost reports. Listen in to learn more!

0:00 Intro

1:45 What are cost reports?

2:24 What are allocation statistics?

3:23 How often do statistics and requirements change?

4:52 Equipment depreciation

8:00 Requesting changes in allocation

10:49 Affected facilities

11:45 Cost report averages...

Our in-house data visualization experts, Mark Erickson, Neil Frizzell, and Devon Hochstetter, answer some helpful questions during this podcast. Questions like “data visual-what now?” What’s Jirav? Is that like a giraffe?” (It’s close!) “Is Power BI some kind of weight-lifting move?”

But seriously, you’ll get the lowdown on these and other tools that can help you grow and monitor your business. Listen in now!

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Microsoft P...

If you’ve been thinking about starting your own business, our resident business expert and CPA Jennie Steinmetz is here to tell you everything you need to know. You’ll learn about regulations, registration, sales tax, payroll tax, R&D tax credits, B.A.I.L. (not the prison kind), and more. Listen in now!

0:00 Intro

2:18 What laws and regulations should you know about when starting a business?

3:05 What does an S-corp entail?

4:0...

Our Avantax friend, Kevin Dement, is back and we're talking about portfolios. Specifically, what makes an actively managed or asset allocation portfolio different from other portfolio types. What are the benefits, risks, and how do you find a partner that you can trust? Listen in to learn more!

0:00 Introduction

2:00 Types of Portfolios

4:48 Portfolio Fees

6:50 Actively Managed Portfolio Features

8:22 How Portfolio Changes are Ma...