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Highlights from our coverage of our 3rd Annual Growth & Profitability Summit, including keynote sessions, and tips, strategies and best practices on tax, technology, recruiting and retention, M&A, and more.

Accounting firms shouldn’t think that there isn’t a cost to a merger that doesn’t happen -- or worse, one that falls apart -- lawyer and M&A expert Steven Berger told attendees at Accounting Today’s Growth & Profitability Summit.

To help customers potentially affected by Hurricane Sandy, Thomson Reuters reached out to users in 16 states with an offer to set firms up on their Virtual Office CS platform, giving them free access to their CS Professional Suite products and data as well as MS Office.

According to the latest edition of Intuit Inc.’s Small Business Revenue and Employment Indexes, there has been an ongoing decline in small business employment for companies with less than 20 employees since May.

Marketing was a popular topic for the speakers and panelists at Accounting Today’s third annual Growth and Profitability Summit Oct. 28-30 in Boca Raton, Fla., while sharing their strategies for accounting firm development in challenging times.

Tax and accounting software and information provider CCH laid out disaster recovery policy to support customers whose practices have been affected by Hurricane Sandy.

After New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo declared a “state disaster emergency” for all of the state, Commissioner Thomas Mattox of the Department of Taxation and Finance announced the postponement of certain tax filing and payment deadlines for those directly affected by Hurricane Sandy.

The South Carolina Department of Revenue said that some 3.6 million Social Security numbers and 387,000 credit and debit card numbers have been exposed in a cyber attack.

Koltin Consulting Group CEO Allan Koltin described the best practices of high-performing accounting firms and partners during a keynote speech at Accounting Today’s Growth & Profitability Summit on Tuesday.

The technology consulting division of McGladrey has acquired top NetSuite reseller Forward Hindsight, effectively increasing its NetSuite business which it started over a year ago.