Three years ago this month, I was part of something epic, something that doesn’t come around very often in a person’s career—a peer merger. This merger melded three entities in seven markets together and overnight, the organization doubled in size when it became BerganKDV.

Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds recently signed Senate File 2417, an extensive state tax reform bill that will greatly impact the tax structure in Iowa. This legislation contains changes to modernize and expand the types of businesses required to collect Iowa sales tax.

The stock market has had somewhat of a volatile disposition this year, acting excitedly at times and anxiously at others; occasionally in the same day. Though many factors are no doubt promotive of this dynamic, likely the most considerable is the shift in the Federal Reserve’s (Fed) policy perspective.

Recently, the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools held their annual conference in Austin, Texas. We recently sat down with Senior Financial Manager Nick Taintor from our Farmington location to get his five takeaways from the panel session he participated in as a presenter at the conference.