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Melio launches expense management, testing client admin AI
Melio, which Xero bought last year, will expand into expense management and open up its payment API, allowing anyone to access its payment capacities. They are also testing a client admin AI.

Xerocon 2026: JAX AI aims to automate admin work
Xero announced a wide variety of AI enhancements centered around its agentic system JAX.

Xerocon 2026: CEO promises OpenAI, MS365 integrations
Xero CEO Sukhinder Singh Cassidy, at the Xerocon event in Denver, announced new integrations with OpenAI, as well as deepened Microsoft integrations.

What successful M&A looks like
The 2026 Fastest-Growing Firms rely heavily on mergers and acquisitions — and they've worked hard to develop strong playbooks.

Boomer's Blueprint: 'Human in the lead' means redesigning firms
With artificial intelligence, a 'human in the loop' is a speed bump; a 'human in the lead' is a leadership model.

Will AI replace accounting firms in the small biz market?
Many companies are looking at a combination of AI, a CPA and internal assets.

The 2026 Salary Survey: Inching upward
Accounting Today's annual salary survey shows overall compensation at accounting firms rising — but is it growing fast enough?

An AI-generated P&L is only as good as the data beneath it
Generative artificial intelligence is changing how finance teams interact with corporate data.

Sax Wealth Advisors adds Florida wealth manager
The acquisition helps expand Sax Wealth Advisors' presence in the Sunshine State and continues its M&A streak this year.

IRS chief blasted for employee treatment
The top Democrat on the House Ways and Means Committee says IRS employees have suffered since the agency unilaterally ended its union contract.













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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.