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Top 100 Firm Marcum took the top spot among large audit firms in bringing in new Securities and Exchange Commission audit clients in the fourth quarter of 2015, with with 11 new engagements and a net gain of six.

Accounting Today has issued a call for submissions for its 2016 Top New Products report.

Columbus-based GBQ Partners has acquired Cincinnati-based Ernst & Rabe, effective January 1, according to published reports.

Top 100 Firm Squar Milner LLP announced that it will expand its presence in San Diego by merging with McLean, Rotherham & Co. and its subsidiary, Hosaka, Rotherham & Co., effective Feb. 1, 2016.

New hardware, software, services and books for accountants.

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Atlanta’s Habif, Arogeti & Wynne creates a new attest service

Ohio accounting firm Whalen & Co. CPAs has acquired Hilliard-based firm Earman and Wood CPAs.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board’s first 2016 webinar will cover the latest findings in the board’s interim inspection program for auditors of brokers and dealers.

GASB has issued guidance on how certain state and local government external investment pools and participants in external investment pools may measure and report their investments.

Cincinnati-based Barnes Dennig has expanded its tri-state footprint by combining with Indianapolis-based Gauthier & Kimmerling, effective Jan. 1, 2016.

A third of accountants think that as much a half of their peers in the profession may be acting unethically, according to a recent survey.

Payroll giant Paychex Inc. announced that it grew its total revenue 7 percent in the second quarter of its fiscal 2016, to $722.4 million.

Local firms Mellott & Mellott and Thomas Heldman CPA and Associates announced that they will be merging effective Jan. 1, 2016.

The Governmental Accounting Standards Board has issued three exposure drafts with reporting guidance related to fiduciary activities, certain asset retirement obligations, and pension issues.

Ineffective monitoring of refunds and a computer programming error caused the Internal Revenue Service to issue more than $46 million in erroneous refunds, according to a new report.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board announced that it plans to issue a final standard on the recognition and measurement of financial instruments in the first week of 2016.

Local CPA firms Hurley, Williams & Cook PS and Ball & Treger LLP have merged to create the Hearthstone CPA Group.

The Internal Revenue Service will begin accepting individual tax returns on Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2016, it announced today.