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Guidance helps CFOs plan for nature-related risks
The Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures and Accounting for Sustainability partnered on a new guide to nature-related impacts for finance chiefs.

Accuity adds Hawaii firm
Crete Professionals Alliance partner firm Accuity acquired Carbonaro CPAs & Management Group, expanding its presence in Hawaii.

IRS eases proposed sovereign wealth fund tax rules
New guidance provides transition relief, grandfathering protection and delayed implementation for taxing income of foreign governments investing in U.S. businesses.

What Apple Watches teach us about SQMS monitoring
Ever since the AICPA released new quality management standards, firms have raced to implement them. But like a fitness tracker, the system itself is not the transformation.

Trump to get audit immunity as $1.8B fund in doubt
U.S. officials are continuing with an agreement that bars the government from probing past tax filings from President Donald Trump and his businesses.

HBK's Vertilocity acquires tech firm
Vertilocity, an arm of Top 50 Firm Hill, Barth & King, acquired Toledo, Ohio-based technology firm Computol, effective June 1.

Aprio expands in Philadelphia
The Top 20 Firm acquired Isdaner & Company, an accounting and advisory firm in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, effective June 1.

Crete rebrands as Current
The Top 50 Firm is rebranding as Current to reflect the firm's commitment to upgrading local firms with AI to compete with large incumbents.

The AI revolution in accounting is real. So is the new risk
AI is changing accounting, but removing humans from the loop is the fastest way to destroy the profession.

Adams Brown acquires Kansas tech provider
Adams Brown Technology Specialists acquired Parsons, Kansas-based technology provider Higher Calling Technologies.










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.