A Virginia woman who stole the identities of tax clients has been sentenced to five years in prison. Sybil Marshall Coles, 45, of Pamplin, Virginia, was sentenced to serve five years in prison for aggravated identity theft and preparing a false tax return. She also must serve one year of supervised release and pay $949,273 in restitution.

A California CPA has been barred from associating with a registered accounting by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board. The agency took the action against Henry Mendoza, age 55, and censured him for instructing staff to backdate workpapers involving the audits of the financial statements of two clients while he was managing partner of the former Mendoza, Berger & Co.

The Progressive Accountant talks with Roy Keely, VP OF Market Strategy, Xcentric and outsourced IT provider to accounting firms with 7-200 employees. Topics covered include security, backup, servers and portals to enable firms to access all of their enterprise and client applications in one place.