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Fieldguide announces $75M in new funding
Audit AI solutions provider Fieldguide announced a $75 million Series C round.

75-year-old CPA pleads guilty to $2M fraud conspiracy
Thomas Unsworth, a CPA from East Naples, Florida, pleaded guilty in a federal fraud probe of Oakes Farms Food & Distribution Services.

IRS uses IRA funding to stay open during shutdown
The Internal Revenue Service posted a contingency plan Friday indicating that it would be able to operate until Feb. 7, 2026, while keeping all 74,942 employees working.

AICPA unveils Profession Ready Initiative
The American Institute of CPAs introduced a new program to identify and develop the skills needed by early-career CPAs to succeed in an AI-driven market.

Identify and develop emerging leaders at your firm
Are you looking at the right attributes? The answers may surprise you.

Mandelson may have leaked UK gov't tax info to Epstein
The former ambassador forwarded internal emails about tax policy proposals to Jeffrey Epstein while a member of former prime minister Gordon Brown's cabinet.

US companies blast Polish digital services tax plan
The draft legislation seeks to introduce a levy of up to 3% on digital platforms that sell advertising, process user data or enable online sales.

AI agents managing 25-75% of tasks for many CFOs
While still a minority, a significant percent of finance leaders have offloaded at least half of their accounting and finance workload to agentic AI tools.

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.