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This was a pretty busy week for the VARs, lots of strategic buying going on, but the vendor community was also active as over a dozen of them engaged in the 4th Annual SaaS Executive Roundtable – essentially a CPA2Biz/AICPA-hosted U.N. of predominantly cloud vendors targeting the CPA community.

Gary R. St. Pierre CPAs, a firm based in Mount Prospect, Ill., has merged with Michael Silver & Co.

Prager & Fenton LLP and Metis Group LLC, have merged. The two firms will now operate under the name Prager Metis International LLC.

Most former NFL players are bankrupt or under financial stress within two years of retirement. So why aren’t more athletes using financial advisors? A former Pittsburgh Steeler says ego and fear are often to blame, but there are ways for players and advisors to make a winning connection.

Armanino (formerly Armanino McKenna) has merged in Microsoft Dynamics CRM and SharePoint consulting services company Gradient Vision, in a move to strengthen its own Dynamics CRM

The Internal Revenue Service is scheduled to begin accepting individual income tax returns starting Wednesday.

CCH has introduced the CCH Code & Regs 2013 App, a mobile app for Apple iPhone and iPad and Google Android devices.

This fall the IRS will send out CP2100 and CP2100a Forms, or “B” Notices, to payers who filed incorrect or incomplete forms including those with incorrect name and Taxpayer Identification Number data.

Daniel Goelzer, one of the original members of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board and a former acting chairman, told Accounting Today he is skeptical that the PCAOB will end up requiring mandatory audit firm rotation for public companies.

The Deloitte Foundation awarded $25,000 worth of grants to the ten top PhD candidates from its annual Doctoral Fellowships in Accounting program.