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Melissa Diaz has worked on a wide range of accounting and audit services across the southwest and internationally, with a specialty in the healthcare industry. She is a shareholder, and financial and GAAP accounting badass at High Rock Accounting, where she assists clients with GAAP compliance, financial modeling, financial reporting, and general financial accounting inquiries. She is currently the loving mother to two step-children and three dogs. If you’re in search of a good conversation topic, she could go on for hours about dogs in general (but particularly hers). Also sloths. Her passion for each is only rivaled by her love of travel.

Clients are advised to minimize spending and tap possible sources of cash and credit, including their tax refund.

Tim Ryan is U.S. chair and senior partner of PwC. Previously, he served as vice chair responsible for the firm’s strategy and stakeholder relationships including investor relations, regulatory affairs, public policy, corporate responsibility and human capital. With nearly three decades of diversified experience serving clients in the financial services industry in the U.S. and internationally, he also previously led PwC's Assurance practice and before that, led PwC's U.S. Financial Services practice and PwC's Consumer Finance Group. In 2017, he worked with a group of CEOs to launch The CEO Action for Diversity & Inclusion — the largest ever CEO-driven business commitment to advance diversity and inclusion in the workplace.

Dianne Descoteaux is compliance director at Cipperman Compliance Services, based in Wayne, Pennsylvania

Banks are boosting their benefits, paying bonuses to front-line employees, extra paid time off for those who are sick or self-quarantined, financial assistance with child care and access to virtual doctors’ appointments.

As the spread of coronavirus disrupts operations, it’s a precarious moment for advisers who have been planning big career changes for months.

Al Anderson, CPA, is the president and founder of Accountability Plus LLC, and Corey Schmidt, CPA, is manager of audit innovation.

Industry consolidation has been on the rise as the role of private-equity and other financial institution-backed buyers expands.