Leadership and management consulting firm ConvergenceCoaching has announced its 2018-19 Fall Transformational Leadership Program graduating class. The program hosts high-potential candidates from CPA firms who have completed ConvergenceCoaching’s one-year program that helps “future leaders honestly identify their strengths and areas for improvement…and prepare to take on meaningful roles in leading and managing [their] firm,” according […]

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A number of accounting firms are named Best Companies for Working Mothers; EisnerAmper gets a new Dallas office; and other news from accountants across the country.

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Eide Bailly announces the winners of its 2019 Nonprofit Resourcefullness Awards; MyCPE launches its “1 Credit = 1 Meal” charity initiative, the Illinois CPA Society holds its 10th annual CPA Day of Service, and more philanthropy news from firms across the country.

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While the web has been around for over two decades, its use as an effective marketing tool has matured in just the past few years. As a result, marketing in the accounting profession is undergoing a revolution, fundamentally changing how accounting firms promote themselves and develop new business. Traditional marketing channels such as print advertising […]

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BPM LLP, a Top 100 Firm based in San Francisco, has added Adhere Inc., a security technology company in Fairfield, California, to its advisory practice, the latest in a series of mergers. BPM, formerly Burr Pilger Mayer, is adding approximately 10 employees through the deal, with Adhere CEO Sarah Lynn joining the firm as partner. […]

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Tronconi Segarra Associates LLP, a CPA firm in Williamsville, New York, has merged in Scott Cain and six associates from his previous firm, Wittlin, Cain, Dry, LLP, effective Oct. 1, 2019. The Lockport office where Cain and his associates worked will now become a Tronconi Segarra office. His previous firm will keep its other office […]

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The Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants signed a Statement of Protocol on oversight arrangements with the Financial Reporting Council, a regulatory body for audit firms in the United Kingdom The officials who attended the signing ceremony included Winnie Ng, deputy secretary for financial services and the Treasury, Patrick Law, president of the HKICPA […]

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The Governmental Accounting Standards Board proposed accounting and financial reporting guidance Thursday for state and local governments to help them transition away from the London Interbank Offered Rate and other interbank offered rates to newer reference rates. GASB and its affiliated standard-setter, the Financial Accounting Standards Board, have been helping public and private sector accountants […]

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Wipfli LLP, a Top 100 Firm based in Milwaukee, is looking ahead to future expansion, with growth partner Brian Blaha setting his sights on geographic areas and industries to target. In June, the firm named a new managing partner, Kurt Gresens, who took the reins from longtime leader Rick Dreher (see Wipfli names new managing […]

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Mr. Unfreeze; Discount miscount; pity me, pity me; and other highlights of recent tax cases. Glendale, California: Former Wells Fargo branch manager Hakop Zakaryan, 34, has pleaded guilty to one felony count of bank fraud for using his position to help launder proceeds of a tax fraud and identity theft scheme. The scheme involved using […]

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