The Nashville, Tennessee office of public accounting firm Carr, Riggs & Ingram, LLC, one of the Southeast’s ‘Top Four’ accounting and business consulting firms and a top 40 firm nationally, has announced the addition of Jennifer Bailey as a staff accountant in the firm’s tax group.

A resident of Murfreesboro and native of Marshall, Michigan, Bailey joins the firm full-time after completing a successful internship earlier with CRI. She holds a B.B.A. degree in Accounting from Middle Tennessee State University, where she is currently pursuing her Master of Accountancy degree.

As a staff accountant, she works with middle-market and emerging organizations, primarily in the trucking, healthcare, hospitality and manufacturing arenas, as well as with high-net-worth individual clients. Bailey is an active member of both the Tennessee Society of Certified Public Accountants and the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA).

Carr, Riggs & Ingram (CRI) is ranked 35th in Accounting Today’s top 100 firms in the nation and 4th in the Southeast region. Today, CRI employs over 550 professionals in 16 offices across Tennessee, Alabama, Florida, Georgia and Mississippi, and is recognized as one of the fastest-growing firms in the United States.