Generally Accepted Accounting Podcast

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, how to decide what things you should ...

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 field, the “money scripts” people tell ...

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
• Retirement plan and IRA required minimu...

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 th...

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...

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 na...

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 ...

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 bun...

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 avoi...

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 challenge...

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...

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 accou...

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 even talk about bonus depreciation...

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 ac...

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 journey you might think it was and is a p...

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 Dave does a great job of providing ...

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 ...

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 organization might not even need one) and talk...

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...