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Gray Griffith & Mays expands in West Virginia
Charleston, West Virginia-based Gray Griffith & Mays acquired Lambright & Gutta, effective as of Sept. 2.

Trout expands dental advisory practice
Lancaster, Pennsylvania-based Trout CPA acquired Schiff & Associates, expanding the firm's dental advisory practice.

Withum expands in California
The deal expands the Top 25 Firm's assurance and consulting practice, and strengthens its industry and service capabilities.

FASB proposes codification tweaks
The Financial Accounting Standards Board posted a proposed accounting standards update with targeted improvements to the Accounting Standards Codification.

NYSE internal audit requirement: Why a five-year delay is too long
A proposed NYSE rule change would let newly listed companies wait five years before establishing an internal audit function.

Private sector added 38K jobs in August as pay grew
Base pay rose 3.2% and gross pay was up 4.7% year over year, according to the new ADP Pay Insights component of the report.

False info, real problems: The human in the AI loop
Accountants tend to view hallucination control as a governance challenge first and a technical challenge second. Essential to this is human review.

False info, real problems: Can accountants tame AI hallucinations?
AI's infamous tendency to occasionally generate false information, also known as "hallucinations," remains untamed by even the world's largest accounting firms.

Accrual acquires Puzzle's tech to add to CAS offering
Accrual, generally known as a tax and practice management solutions provider, has acquired the technology and business of AI-guided bookkeeping and accounting solutions provider Puzzle.

Armanino acquires AppWrap team, clients
Armanino announced that the leaders and staff of AppWrap have joined the firm, dramatically expanding its NetSuite practice.










About Us

Bill Frost

Bill received a Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting and a Master’s of Business Administration from Georgia State University.  Bill worked for the Internal Revenue Service and for a national public accounting firm before starting his own practice in 1972.  Bill Frost and Charlie Fiveash were partners at Fiveash & Frost, LLP until Charlie’s retirement in December 2013.  Bill is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) and the Georgia Society of Certified Public Accountants.  Bill is married and has three children and seven grandchildren.

Jennifer Bare

Jennifer received a Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting from the University of Georgia and a Master’s in Taxation from Georgia State University.  Jennifer began her accounting and tax career at Georgia- Pacific Corporation and has been working in public accounting since 1999.  Jennifer is a member of the Georgia Society of Certified Public Accountants.  Jennifer is married and has three children.

Jan Byrd

Jan joined our firm in January 2014.  Jan is a Certified Public Accountant with an Accounting degree from Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa.  Jan has work experience in both fields of audit and tax.  Jan is married and has three children.