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Special Report: 2025 Readers’ Choice Awards

CPA Practice

From tax prep to asset management, invoicing and portals, and auditing to remote CFO functions, the services the accounting and tax pros provide are dependent on the technologies they use. The awards highlight the most useful technology for firms and clients.

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Tax Fraud Blotter: Getting personal

Accounting Today

Hoover, Alabama: Chiropractor Gary Forrest Edwards has pleaded guilty to tax evasion and to obstructing the IRS. He also transferred funds from his business entities to his wife and then used his wifes bank accounts, in which Conte was not a signatory until 2020, to pay personal expenses. Sentencing is Oct.

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On the move: KPMG elects next Americas chair

Accounting Today

ALABAMA Ashley Taylor Ashley Taylor, a principal in the business valuation & litigation consulting group at Jackson Thornton, Montgomery, was elected chairperson of the NACVA Litigation Forensics Board.

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Friday Footnotes: Baker Tilly Did What!?; Internship Ranking Winner Same As Last Year; Pillar II to Be a PITA | 10.25.24

Going Concern

Other accounting firms in the Top 10 Best Overall Internships are Texas-based Weaver, Alabama-based BMSS, and Wisconsin-based Wipfli. CPA’s, PC, can no longer complete the audits due to staffing issues. CPA’s, PC, can no longer complete the audits due to staffing issues.

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Friday Footnotes: Auditors Can Prevent Fraud With Fibbing; AI Rollup Accounting Firms Are So Hot Right Now | 6.20.25

Going Concern

The research explored how different audit strategies influence managers’ decisions to commit or conceal fraud. This would discourage a concentration of audit assignments with only a few senior partners at accounting firms and curb any anti-competitive conduct, he indicated.

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Tax Fraud Blotter: Who ya gonna call?

Accounting Today

Mobile, Alabama: Tax preparer Kenneshia Davis has been sentenced to a year and a day in prison for filing fraudulent returns. Birmingham, Alabama: Tax preparer Geta Barr has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for preparing false returns for clients. According to the IRS, the payroll taxes due on the wages totaled $2,048,182.

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Tax Fraud Blotter: Hard lessons

Accounting Today

Mobile, Alabama: Brandy Davis, 42, has been sentenced to five years of probation in connection with tax fraud. Chris Mary Tijerina, 40, of Crandall, Texas, was sentenced to 15 months in prison and ordered to pay $7,560,661.69 in restitution. in restitution.