FreshBooks has introduced what it says is a new model, Collaborative Accounting. The Accounting software vendor has also introduced Collaborative Accounting Certification for teaching the model.

 A Warren County, Ohio, tax preparer and financial advisor has been sentenced to 15 years of prison for stealing more than $1.31 million from a client’s investments over a decade. Patrick Noel Thayer, 48, who currently works as a financial controller for Hard Rock Casino in Cincinnati, Ohio,  must also pay the balance of slightly more than $1 million in restitution to the victim.

A Lawrenceville, Ga.-based tax preparer has been sentenced to five years in prison in a scheme that recruited his clients to help purchase stolen cars for resale.  Stanley Worthy Jr. must make $2.9 million in restitution after pleading guilty to a variety of charges.