Multinational accounting and advisory firm Mazars Group has been in talks with New York-based Weiser LLP in a merger that would create the sixth largest accounting firm in the world.

Calvetti, Ferguson & Wagner, P.C., a CPA and business advisory firm specializing in tax, audit and advisory solutions, sealed a partnership with global transactional concern Verse Consulting that will bolster its international tax offerings to mid-market companies.

CBIZ has acquired National Benefit Alliance, an employee benefits firm based in Midvale, Utah.

New Jersey accounting firm Cullari, Gallo, Soojian, Carraba LLC has merged with Carrico Associates P.A.

Accounting and consulting firm Rehmann has combined with Cleveland-based Dawson Wealth Management, increasing the size of Rehmann’s wealth management practice to over $1 billion in assets under management.

CPA and business advisory firm The Resnick Druckman Group has merged in New York-based practices, Sigmund Balaban & Co. and Gilbert, Wolff and Co., effective immediately.

Two former partners in the accounting firm Sturn Wagner Lombardo & Co., Andrew R. Lombardo and Matthew C. Wagner, are merging with J. Brian Stitcher, owner of the accounting firm SRM & Co., to form a new firm, Lombardo Wagner Stitcher and Co. LLC.

ACCOUNTING STAFF CUTBACKS SHOULD SLOW

Throughout 2009, those in the accounting professionneeded a scorecard to track the flurry of CPA firm mergers that occurred between the start of the year and the final refrain of "Auld Lange Syne."

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Sikich LLP has merged in two IT service consulting firms, Hal Weinberger Consulting and MAS Consulting, in the latest examples of the firm’s merger spree.

Florida accounting firm Kauffman, Rossin & Co. has brought on board the team from Ft. Lauderdale-based London Witte & Co.

California accounting firms Macias Gini & O’Connell and Bernstein, Fox, Whitman, Goldman & Baumblatt LLP have combined forces.

San Diego wealth management firm Rowling, Dold & Associates has joined Moss Adams Wealth Advisors, the wealth management division of accounting firm Moss Adams.

Payroll giant ADP has agreed to buy DO2 Technologies, a Calgary, Alberta-based company that provides electronic invoicing software.

LECG shareholders have approved the consulting firm’s merger with Smart Business Advisory & Consulting along with a related proposal for LECG to receive a $25 million cash investment from Smart’s majority shareholder, Great Hill Partners.

CBIZ Inc. and its affiliated CPA firm Mayer Hoffman McCann have acquired Goldstein Lewin & Co., a South Florida accounting and financial services provider.

Southeast regional accounting firm Carr Riggs & Ingram has combined with New Orleans-based Roth Murphy Sanford, expanding CRI’s footprint to six states.

Southeast regional accounting firm Watkins Meegan is expanding its Annapolis, Md., office by adding several accounting, tax and business consulting experts from Annapolis-based Sturn Wagner Lombardo & Co.

Accounting firm LarsonAllen is combining with the senior citizen services consultancy Third Age Consulting in the New Year.