Carr, Riggs & Ingram (CRI) Welcomes New Partners

  

ENTERPRISE, AL – (DECEMBER 12, 2011) – Carr, Riggs & Ingram, LLC (CRI), ranked as the 32^nd largest accounting firm nationally and 3^rd largest in the South, welcomes  eight new partners: Melissa Barnes, CPA; Candy Cunard, CPA; Scott Ferguson, CPA; David Mills, CISA, CGEIT, CRISC, CTGA, MCSE; Brent Pagragan, CPA; Stephen C. Riggs IV, CPA; Michael Whitney, CPA, and Stanley Walls, MCSE, MCP+I, ISCE . 

Barnes, now a CRI partner in the Enterprise office, has nearly 10 years of diversified experience providing accounting, auditing, and tax services. She primarily serves investment companies, not-for-profit organizations, publicly traded companies, and governmental entities throughout Alabama. Additionally, Melissa also offers specialized expertise in the area of employee benefit plan (EBP) audits including defined contribution (401k and 403b) and defined benefit pension plans.

CRI partner Cunard is in the Destin office and provides auditing and consulting services to homeowner associations (HOA) and condominium associations throughout Florida. Cunard’s expertise includes managing year-end tax and accounting services for condominium associations and homeowner associations, as well as performing benchmarking ratios for associations that allow them to identify areas for improving efficiencies. She also holds a current Certified Association Management (CAM) License in the State of Florida.

Now a partner in CRI’s Orlando office, Ferguson offers more than 14 years of experience. He provides accounting, auditing, and assurance services to corporate clients in the construction, real estate, and hospitality industries throughout Central Florida. He also specializes in employee benefit plan (EBP) audits for plan types including defined benefit plans, and defined contribution plans (401k and 403b).

Mills is a CRI IT consulting partner in the Enterprise office. With more than 20 years of experience, he conducts various IT audits and IT assessments including Sarbanes Oxley (SoX), Gramm Leach Bliley, Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFICE), Banking Secrecy Act, SSAE 16, SOC-2, SOC-3, TG3/TR-39, IT security, penetration testing, and privacy audits.

As a partner in the New Orleans office of CRI, Pagragan provides a variety of accounting and auditing services to manufacturing and distribution companies, financial institutions, not-for-profit organizations, and construction companies throughout the Southeastern Louisiana area. Additionally, Pagragan specializes in performing employee benefit plan (EBP) audits.

Another CRI partner in the Destin office, Riggs, focuses on delivering accounting services to Floridian entities including governmental entities (both municipalities and counties), hospitality companies, and common interest realty associations (CIRA). Additionally, he also offers specialty services in areas such as condominium and homeowner association audits, hospitality accounting, and hotel audits.

New CRI partner Whitney hails from Tallahassee and utilizes more than 25 years of diversified audit and tax experience to serve clients in not-for-profit organizations, governmental entities, and manufacturing and distribution companies. As a part of the firm’s governmental audit team, Whitney participates in Florida municipal audits, Florida county audits, and other Florida governmental agency audits. Formerly a county treasurer, he offers unique expertise derived from participating in both sides of a governmental audit engagement.

CRI corporate partner Walls serves as CRI’s Director of Information Systems. He has 15 years of experience in building and managing technology solutions, and   27 years of diversified engineering/IT experience in the areas of design, project management, systems deployment, network development and administration. In his role as CRI Director of Information Systems, Walls is responsible for all internal technology operations, IT strategic planning, network infrastructure, and hosting services for the firm.

“CRI’s aggressive growth strategy wouldn’t be possible without our team comprised of exemplary professionals like Melissa, David, Candy, Stephen, Scott, Brent, Michael, and Stanley,” states William H. Carr, managing partner of CRI. “Our new partners personify the core values of CRI—personalized customer service, responsiveness, and integrity. Their specialized—yet diversified—expertise is an asset to both our clients and the firm and helps us maintain our status as one of the fastest growing firms nationally.”