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Do you have customers… or prisoners?
The best firms don't build walls to keep clients in — they build wells clients never want to leave. Here are three keys.

Tax Fraud Blotter: Hole in none
You can check out but you can never leave; job experience; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Education Dept. delays seizing tax refunds for student loan debt
The U.S. Department of Education is delaying involuntary collections of student loan debt by garnishing wages and seizing tax refunds.

Marketer of the Year nominations open
The Association for Accounting Marketing is accepting nominations for its 2026 Marketer of the Year Award until Feb. 4.

On the move: Lumsden & McCormick names first non-CPA partner
FASB adds six to Not-for-Profit Advisory Committee; Brown Plus promotes 15; and more news from across the profession.

In the blogs: What a circus
Statehouse skirmishes: the Gold Card; how returns get prepared; and other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers.

Tech news: Thomson Reuters launches AI tax compliance solution
Plus, Emburse announces Invoice Tax Validation; TaxStatus releases tax prep checklist, tax return history; and other accounting tech news and updates.

The hidden risk in accounting's PE boom: culture
An increase in private equity acquisitions has made odd bedfellows of once-disparate, competing accounting firms.

Rhode Island governor supports millionaire tax
Rhode Island Governor Dan McKee proposed a higher tax on millionaires to help fill a hole in the state's budget.

How dual share classes could reshape the future of ETFs
Regulators officially approved 30 more funds last month, with more expected authorizations in 2026. Will financial advisors and their clients bite?










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.