Steve is the founding and managing partner of Adams & Petersen, CPAs, LLC. He has been in public accounting since graduating from
Weber State in 1988 and has extensive expertise in the areas of auditing, accounting, consulting and taxation. While at
Weber State University, he was heavily involved in many areas of student government, and in legal and political issues impacting the school at the student level, including being appointed as the school’s Supreme Court Chief Justice. He also took third place in a state-wide business law competition during his senior year.
Steve is a long time member of the
AICPA and
UACPA and he is actively involved in the
Davis Chamber of Commerce and local community groups. He is also the founding member of
ProNet of Layton , a non-profit professional network marketing entity that promotes the growth of the business members of Pronet. Pronet of
Layton, LLC also donates thousands of dollars to needy families along the Wasatch Front every year.
Steve’s professional background and experience as a CPA includes working with businesses in all areas of the construction, retail, wholesale, manufacturing, fabrication, outside-sales, distribution, medical, dental, legal, professional services, franchising, development, real estate, natural resources, multi-level marketing, trucking, transportation and software industries. He recently appealed a specific audit position and personally provided information in a non-formal hearing directly to the commissioners of the Utah State Tax Commission involving the Tax Commission’s state-wide practice of auditing and assessing sales tax on certain automated car wash transactions, resulting in the complete abandonment of the State’s ability to continue to audit and assess sales tax on those transactions. He works extensively with companies to provide them with help in Financial Statement Audits, Reviews, and Compilations, Corporate and Individual Taxation Issues, Internal Control Procedures, Forensic Accounting, Fraud Detection Techniques, Estate Planning, Like-Kind Exchanges, Strategic Planning, the Purchase and Sale of Business Entities, Divorce Situations, and overall business consulting.
Steve’s life away from the office includes spending time with his wife Christie and their four children. He enjoys distance and mountain trail running and has completed three marathons. He also likes riding his Harley motorcycle, weight lifting, hiking, camping, boating, basketball, coin collecting, reading and martial arts.
Gary Petersen, CPA, Partner
gary@apcpas.com
Gary is a partner at Adams & Petersen, CPAs LLC in the Clearfield/Layton area. He has been in public accounting for twenty two years and enjoys the connection that accounting has to every aspect of our lives. Adams & Petersen is a full service accounting firm for individuals and businesses, from start up to very large corporations. The firm has a very comfortable and professional atmosphere designed to allow employees to thrive and clients to receive excellent service.
Gary worked with a large Salt Lake City firm and a small Ogden firm prior to becoming a founding partner of Adams & Petersen, CPAs in 2001. He was educated at Weber State University. He continues to have a relationship with the accounting school there, and currently has three children that are students at Weber State University.
Gary has special proficiency as a Certified Public Accountant in entity selection, taxation, high net worth individuals, and estate planning. In addition, he has expertise in specific industries, such as: construction, manufacturing, retail, restaurants, real estate sales and development, governmental grants and municipalities. He also has varied experience with a wide variety of the professional services industry, including: legal, medical (general practice, dental, anesthesia, and physical therapy).
In addition to taxation, Gary has professional expertise is the financial reporting and compliance area as well. He has a strong background in auditing, reviews, and compilations for small to large entities over $100 million annually. Included in that expertise is determining the proper internal control structure, and consulting regarding management effectiveness and efficiency analysis.
Gary values the relationships of other professionals in the legal, finance, banking and insurance industries who become team members as they work together to accomplish the goals of their mutual clients.
Gary is very involved in the community and believes everyone should “give back” to their communities in an appropriate manner at some point in their lives. Gary is a past Chair of the Board of Directors of the Davis Chamber of Commerce. While serving in the Chamber, he has been involved with everything from Legacy Highway to Hill AFB spending, creating UBIDS (a liaison program for government contracting), creating Davis Cable 17 (a PEG cable channel owned by the Davis Chamber), and currently serves as the Transportation Committee Chairman.
Gary also serves on the West Point City council and has done so for nine years. As a Councilman, he has enjoyed shaping the future of a fast growing community and solving issues related to West Point’s growing pains. Gary is also the Chairman of the Board of the North Davis Fire District Board, a special district that provides fire protection and ambulance services to the communities of Clearfield and West Point. He serves on the board of Smiles for a Lifetime (a nonprofit organization providing orthodontics to underprivileged individuals). Gary has been appointed by the Davis County Commissioners to the Tourism Tax Advisory Board and is currently the Chairman of that board.
Gary’s hobbies are to spend time with his wife Carolyn and their four kids, to spend time gardening, and to occasionally spend a few minutes cycling on the quiet rural roads of West Point. He recently completed for the second time the LOTOJA (a bicycle race that goes from Logan, Utah to Jackson, Wyoming [206 miles] in one day).
