Michael Cohn

Moss Adams LLP has agreed to combine with Morse Wittwer Sampson LLP, a firm based in Fresno, Calif., effective June 30, 2016.

Kessler Orlean Silver & Co., has merged in The Kaplan Partners LLP of Chicago, effective June 1.

Employers added a disappointing 38,000 jobs in May, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday, including 5,400 in accounting and bookkeeping services, although the unemployment rate declined three-tenths of a percentage point to 4.7 percent.

Stephen Chipman, the former CEO of Grant Thornton LLP, has become CEO of Radius, a provider of international accounting, finance, banking, tax, HR, legal and compliance support for global companies, based in Boston.

The Center for Audit Quality is providing support for more independent auditing-related research by picking two new academic research proposals for funding.

Thomson Reuters has released a new edition of PPC’s SMART Practice Aids – Single Audit Suite to automate the single audit process.

Private sector employment grew by 173,000 jobs in May, according to payroll giant ADP, in a sign of slowing job growth.

Wolters Kluwer Tax & Accounting has acquired CPE Link, an online provider of continuing professional education for accountants, tax preparers and financial advisors.

Two new surveys highlight the differing financial situations of older and younger adults.

The XBRL US Data Quality Committee has released an analysis showing big improvements in the quality of filings in Extensible Business Reporting Language format by companies that follow a new set of validation rules.

Crowe Horwath LLP has merged in AbleBridge, a Westborough, Mass.-based software company and consulting firm that develops and sells technology built around the Microsoft Dynamics Customer Relationship Management system.

Dixon Hughes Goodman LLP has expanded to Maryland by merging in Stegman & Company, reputedly the oldest Maryland-based CPA firm, on June 1.

Marcum LLP has merged in Lautze & Lautze CPAs & Financial Advisors, an accounting firm in San Francisco and San Jose, Calif., effective June 1.

Accounting Today columnist Jody Padar and former Accounting Today senior editor Liz Gold are co-hosting a new podcast series, “Let’s Get Radical.”

A new survey of U.S. taxpayers living abroad finds widespread opposition to the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, or FATCA, and similar tax compliance requirements.

The International Organization of Securities Commissions has released a new report providing an overview of how audit committees around the world oversee audit firms, with an eye toward improving audit quality at public companies.

Warren Averett, LLC, Certified Public Accountants and Advisors, is merging in Hutto & Carver, P.A., expanding the firm’s presence in Florida.

BDO USA LLP is expanding its New York metropolitan area practice by merging in Charles A. Barragato & Company, a firm with offices in New York City and Long Island that specializes in servicing high net worth individuals and family offices.

The pace of small business job growth dropped slightly in May after a strong start earlier in the year, according to a new report from the payroll giant Paychex.

The so-called “sharing economy” isn’t doing such a good job of disseminating the necessary tax information with its participants.