REDW Financial Advisors & CPAsREDW Advisors and CPAs is proud to bring you the Insight in Indian Country Podcast, covering important and timely advisory, accounting, and finance topics that impact Tribal Nations and their business affairs.
We come alongside Tribes to build the financial and operational infrastructure that self-directed, sustainable growth requires, from joint-venture strategy to data analytics, financial systems implementation, and cybersecurity.
We equip Tribal leaders with the clarity and confidence to govern well, prioritizing sovereignty, self-governance, OMB Uniform Guidance compliance, financial management, and fraud prevention.
We’ve been a trusted partner in the Tribal gaming industry for over 30 years, working to help safeguard the $40B+ Indian gaming industry that funds Tribal governments, schools, healthcare, and infrastructure by delivering expert advisory for IGRA compliance, MICS internal controls, and TGRA management.
We provide expertise to support your Tribe’s internal capacity to deliver on healthcare as a treaty right and community imperative, providing seasoned, professional advisory for behavioral health integration, workforce development, and Medicaid billing.
We’re excited to share that Soaring Bird Solutions has joined REDW Advisors & CPAs. Founder Karla Bylund continues leading Tribal HR consulting, now with the expanded resources of a nationally recognized advisory firm. The relationships and commitment to Indian Country continue.
A Committed, Culturally Aligned Partnership
View Full Episode Details View Full Episode DetailsWesley Ryan Benally, CPA
REDW Principal and National Tribal Practice Leader
As the leader of REDW’s National Tribal Practice and an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation, Wes is committed to improving financial literacy throughout Indian Country. While also hosting the Insight in Indian Country podcast, Wes is a frequent speaker on audit and accounting topics at many webinars, seminars, and national tribal conferences.
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Those involved in tribal gaming don’t need accounting degrees to interpret casino KPIs effectively—they just need the right context and confidence to ask the right questions.
In this article, Kevin Huddleston, REDW Principal in Client Advisory & Accounting Services, is making sense of key performance indicators for tribal casinos.
The Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) has released Implementation Guide No. 2025-1, a comprehensive set of questions and answers intended to help state, local and Tribal government accounting practices better understand and apply current GASB standards. This GASB standards compliance guide addresses several major topics of importance to governmental entities and their auditors, including lease accounting, cash flows reporting, conduit debt obligations, compensated absences, accounting changes and error corrections, and financial reporting model improvements. These updates will impact governmental entities beginning with fiscal years after June 15, 2025.
Tribal entities face a growing risk from ransomware threats, with the average cost of a data breach recently reported to be $4.88 million. What’s standing between your tribal organization and a cybercrime attack?
In this on-demand webinar, hosted by TG&H Magazine, REDW Cybersecurity experts Trisha Wilbrand and Jennifer Moreno walk you through five critical defense strategies that can help save your organization from significant negative impacts on its finances and operations.
Don’t wait until it’s too late—fortify your defenses now.
Following the Supreme Court’s landmark Becerra v. San Carlos Apache Tribe decision, is your Tribe seeking to recover vital healthcare dollars from the Indian Health Service (IHS)? Our team offers speedy and expert Claims Assistance.
It’s important to attract—and retain—the best employees to ensure the long-term success and sustainability of your tribal organization. And given an exceptionally competitive labor market and the usual budget constraints, this means basing your employee compensation and benefits programs on relevant and reliable data.
Since 2011, REDW has continued to compile a comprehensive annual survey of employee compensation data that Tribal Governments and Tribal Gaming organizations need to make smart, strategic decisions for strengthening their workforce. Each year data is collected in the Spring and Summer and a full report of the findings, complete with historic trends, is made available in the Fall.
Our 2025 Tribal Compensation Reports for government and gaming industries released October 1, 2025!
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