EisnerAmper LLP has added the New York accounting firm, Cohen & Schaeffer, effective Dec. 16, 2017.

Wipfli LLP, a Top 100 Firm, has merged in Kessler Orlean Silver & Co., effective Jan. 1, 2018, expanding the Milwaukee-based firm’s presence in Chicago.

Mueller CPA has merged in Mulcahy, Pauritsch, Salvador & Co., another firm in the Chicago area, effective Jan. 1, 2018, building its presence around the Windy City.

MSPC Certified Public Accountants and Advisors, P.C., a firm based in Cranford, N.J., has merged in Ennis Hargadon, a firm based in Cliffside Park, N.J., effective Jan. 1, 2018.

All of the accountants I know and interact with are nice caring people and I like them. However there is one area where I believe they are being shortsighted and neglectful.

Hawkins Ash CPAs acquires Thomas Cummings; and Pease& Associates merges in Levin Swedler Kennedy.

Eide Bailly LLP, a Top 100 Firm, is expanding in Denver by adding Heider, Tanner & Dirks, Inc, effective Jan. 15.

Brown Edwards is set to merge in Gibbons & Kawash; Sax Wealth Advisors acquires GM Financial Group; Freed and Dardeno combine; and FF&F adds CPI.

CliftonLarsonAllen LLP, a Top 100 Firm, is adding NSBN LLP, a Regional Leader, effective Jan. 1, 2018, expanding CLA’s presence in Los Angeles.

Barfield, Murphy, Shank & Smith has expanded in Alabama by merging in Hindsman PC, a Gadsden-based CPA firm, effective Jan. 1, 2018.

Firms combine forces in Wisconsin and Florida.

The T100 Firm has added Kakimoto & Nagashima, giving it a 10th California office.

The combination between the two Sage Intacct partners will be effective Jan. 1, 2018.

Flurie, Slick & Kinnett is joining the Maryland-based Regional Leader, bringing two partners and four professionals.

Ceterus, a Charleston, S.C., firm that provides managed bookkeeping and tax services for quick-service restaurants, has acquired Sandwich Math, an accounting and bookkeeping firm that focuses on sandwich restaurant franchises.

Wipfli LLP has expanded its presence in its hometown of Milwaukee by adding Sattell, Johnson, Appel & Co., the second Milwaukee firm it has merged with in the past 12 months.

Gettry Marcus CPA, P.C., a Long Island firm based in Woodbury, N.Y., has added JM CPA LLP, a firm based in New York City, effective Dec. 1, 2017.

CBIZ and Mayer Hoffman McCann have acquired McKay & Carnahan, Inc., a firm based in Newport Beach, Calif., effective Dec. 1, 2017.

Firms are combining forces in New York, California, Maryland and Virginia.

When U.S. Senate lawmakers changed just two letters used for a calculation in their proposed tax bill, they may have increased the number of junk-rated companies that would be hurt by tax overhaul.