Firms on the move: Boyer & Ritter's can sculptures benefit local food bank

January 17, 2020 3:29 PM

Baker Newman Noyes and Aronson cut ribbons on new offices; Tennessee and Missouri state CPA societies wager on Sunday's AFC championship; and more CPA news.

CPA Trendlines announced the publication of "The New Fundamentals” by Steve Sacks, a handbook for firms to learn, or relearn, essential "life" skills.

FLORIDA

MBAF, Miami, acquired Kramer & Associates, adding five professionals from the accounting and business consulting firm.

GEORGIA

TJS Deemer Dana, Sublin, was listed as one of America’s Top Recommended Accounting Firms in the Tax and Accounting categories by Forbes magazine, becoming one of only 227 firms in the country named to the list.

Woodard Events, Atlanta, has partnered with Finagraph, producer of CashFlow Tool, a cash-flow solution in the QuickBooks Online app store.

ILLINOIS

Illinois CPA Society

The Illinois CPA Society announced the 2020 Mary T. Washington Wylie Internship Preparation Program Scholars (pictured). (Read the full story.)

Lipschultz Levin & Gray, Northbrook, joined the Eide Bailly Alliance as a member firm of the association.

MARYLAND

Aronson held a ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the opening of its new office in Rockville Town Square, located at 111 Rockville Pike, Suite 600, Rockville.

MASSACHUSETTS

Baker Newman Noyes' (from left) managing principal Dayton Benway, COO Anna Fincke and principal Bob Croak

Baker Newman Noyes hosted a ribbon cutting on Jan. 14 to celebrate the opening of a new office in Woburn, located at 600 Unicorn Park, the firm’s second office in Massachusetts and fifth overall.

NEBRASKA

ConvergenceCoaching, Bellevue, launched a new “Inspired Ideas” podcast series, which will focus on leadership topics related to trends in public accounting. The podcast can be accessed on multiple podcast platforms, and a subscription link is available here.

NEW JERSEY

Bowman & Co., Voorhees, received Gold Recognition in the American Heart Association’s 2019 Workplace Health Achievement Index (pictured). The American Heart Association created the Index with its CEO Roundtable, a leadership collaborative of more than 40 CEOs who are committed to applying evidence-based approaches to improve their employees’ overall health.

NEW YORK

Courtesy of Marcum LLP

Marcum, New York, led the accounting industry in audits of special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) IPOs in 2019, for the third consecutive year, according to SPAC Research. The firm completed more SPAC IPO audits last year than any other U.S. accounting firm, with 29 transactions, or 50 percent of all SPAC offerings, representing $6.6 billion or 49% of total capital raised.

OHIO

Winding River Consulting, Cleveland, announced that the Managing Partner Bootcamp, a professional development program for professional services firm leaders, has added Amsterdam to its roster of locations this spring.

OREGON

McDonald Jacobs, Portland, joined the Eide Bailly Alliance as a member firm of the association.

PENNSYLVANIA

Boyer & Ritter CPAs and Consultants, Camp Hill, participated in a competition during the firm’s annual meeting and holiday party, purchasing and using more than 3,100 cans of food to construct sculptures before donating the cans and $200 to the Pennsylvania Food Bank. After building the sculptures, which included a snowman (pictured), a mosaic image of the firm CEO and flags, team members voted for three winning sculptures in the categories of most creative, best engineering and best overall.

TENNESSEE

The Tennessee Society of CPAs (pictured) and the Missouri Society of CPAs entered into a friendly wager over the outcome of Sunday's NFL AFC Championship game between the Tennessee Titans and the Kansas City Chiefs, betting Tennessee's finest GooGoo Clusters versus Kansas barbecue.

WASHINGTON

Sweeney Conrad, Bellevue, is celebrating 40 years as a locally owned accounting firm this year.

WISCONSIN

Vrakas/Blum Computer Consulting, Brookfield, the technology practice of Vrakas, received the Sage Diamond Partner award, which recognizes the performance of Sage’s top business partners.