Summer 2014 was a very busy one for us and we are sad to see it end! As a proud supporter and member of the Agribusiness Association of Iowa (AAI), we sponsored holes at each of the golf outings held throughout the state. We had a canopy set up with giveaways at Hole 10 in...

Dave had no idea they were all in town! Once dinner was all over, they had a second surprise for the Yankees fan: an autographed Derek Jeter jersey! Dave was very surprised and, as it turns out, he had a pretty great birthday surrounded by family and friends.

We have been lucky to find hard workers who truly love what they do. Mark Rodruck, Partner in Charles City, and Jim English, Partner in Des Moines, have worked at Gardiner Thomsen now for 20 years! We would like to thank them for all that they do for the firm and congratulate them on such an amazing benchmark.

Our father, Daniel Gardiner, started the firm to audit farmer cooperatives, which is still our primary client base. We have a number of clients who have been with the firm the entire 50 years, all cooperatives. Our history with credit unions and our governmental clients starts in the early 1980’s. We have a lot of good memories from all of the years that we have been in business.

By: Emily Bell, Marketing Manager  |  email Throughout 2014 we have been featuring clients who have been working with Gardiner Thomsen for many years (25+)! We are so fortunate to have been able to develop so many long standing relationships and I have thoroughly enjoyed talking with each one of these managers and getting to know more...

In preparing for this edition, we came across some of Dan Gardiner’s files and reports, finding one that summarized the results of his clients from May 1964 to May 1965 closes. We thought you might enjoy reading what the averages were of what he was seeing in his audits. Here are excerpts and stats from that analysis.