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A filmmaker is suggesting a new way to avoid skirmishes over notoriously dubious Hollywood accounting.

RKL eSolutions has acquired Sage 100 and manufacturing software provider Baesis to expand the company’s Sage practice.

Dec. 22, 2015, marked the 20th anniversary of the enactment of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act. Enacted at the behest of accounting firms, the PSLRA was crafted to immunize accountants from securities fraud liability. The result over the last two decades has been a substantial erosion in the ability of investors to hold accounting firms accountable.

Dixon Hughes Goodman LLP said Wednesday that Baltimore-based Stegman & Company will join the firm on June 1, 2016.

Dixon Hughes Goodman (DHG), the top 20 public accounting and advisory firm, announced on Wednesday the Directors and employees of Stegman & Company of Baltimore, Maryland, will join DHG on June 1, 2016. Stegman & Company is the oldest Maryland-based CPA firm and recently celebrated its 100th anniversary of providing service to the greater Baltimore and Mid-Atlantic region.

WeiserMazars LLP has elected CEO Victor Wahba as the new chairman of the firm, effective Jan. 1, 2016, succeeding Douglas A. Phillips, who has become a senior advisor to the firm.

CBIZ, Inc. has acquired the non-attest business of the San Diego, Calif.-based firm Millimaki Eggert, LLP, effective January 1, 2016, while CBIZ’s affiliated CPA firm Mayer Hoffman McCann P.C. has acquired Millimaki Eggert’s attest business.

National Taxpayer Advocate Nina E. Olson released her 2015 annual report to Congress on Wednesday, focusing on her concern that the IRS may be on the verge of dramatically scaling back telephone and face-to-face service it has provided for decades.

Private sector employers added 257,000 jobs to their payrolls last month as the economy continued to strengthen across most sectors, according to payroll giant ADP.

Growth, collaboration, and a concentration on fraud and data security will be impactful nonprofit accounting trends in 2016, according to nonprofit software provider Abila.