Firms on the move: Crowe pledges 75K volunteer hours

August 10, 2018 12:11 PM

EisnerAmper, RSM and Whitley Penn relocate; KPMG celebrates construction of new learning center; and more news from CPA offices across the country.

AUSTRIA

Lansky Ganzger + Partner, in Vienna and Bratislava, Slovakia, and Astana, Kazakhstan, signed a collaboration agreement with international association Andersen Global.

FLORIDA

KPMG learning, development and innovation center in Orlando

KPMG celebrated the construction of its new learning, development and innovation center in Orlando, which is nearing completion, by honoring the construction crew and designers at a recent ceremony. (Read the full story.)

EisnerAmper announced the opening of a new downtown office in West Palm Beach, at 515 North Flagler Drive, Suite P-300.

ILLINOIS

For the firm’s 75th anniversary, Crowe employees were challenged to volunteer 75,000 hours in their communities. (Read the full story.)

MICHIGAN

Doeren Mayhew, Troy, signed an agreement with Michigan CPA Steven Champa, expanding its multi-family housing audit practice.

NEW YORK

EisnerAmper's office building in Metropark/Iselin, N.J.

EisnerAmper office building in Metropark/Iselin, N.J.

Courtesy of EisnerAmper

EisnerAmper, New York, launched a suite of process, risk and technology solutions to bridge the gap between operational, financial and technological departments in a company. Firm professionals will offer services in internal audit and regulatory compliance; IT risk and cybersecurity; and digital solutions and process transformation.

RSM relocated its New York City office to the 4 Times Square office tower, which includes enhanced amenities and meeting spaces.

NORTH CAROLINA

Ernst & Young, New York, and Duke Energy have signed an agreement under which EY will provide the public utility company with managed tax services, and 46 members of Duke’s tax team will receive job offers to join EY’s tax practice. (Read the full story.)

OHIO

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Rea & Associates, New Philadelphia, was certified by CEFEX, Centre for Fiduciary Excellence, LLC, as adhering to the American Society of Pension Professionals & Actuaries Standard of Practice for Retirement Plan Service Providers.

OMAN

GCCA-Gulf Center Consultancy & Audit, Muscat, Corporation joined Alliott Group as a member firm of the worldwide alliance.

SINGAPORE

JBS Practice Public Accounting Corporation joined Alliott Group as a member firm of the worldwide alliance.

TEXAS

Whitley Penn announced it will move into a new office location in Plano in October. The office is location is in Legacy West, at 5908 Headquarters Drive.

TUNISIA

Synergie Audit & Conseil, Tunis, joined Alliott Group as a member firm of the worldwide alliance.

VIRGINIA

SSi Consulting opened a new office in Richmond, and a remote office in Columbia, Maryland.

WASHINGTON, D.C.

The American Institute of CPAs named Miklos Vasarhelyi, a professor at Rutgers University in New Jersey, winner of the 2018 AICPA Distinguished Achievement in Accounting Education Award, honoring full-time college accounting educators who are distinguished for excellence in teaching and have achieved national prominence in the accounting profession. (Read the full story.) The AICPA also honored four professors with the 2018 Notable Contributions to Accounting Literature Award: Urooj Khan, associate professor of business at Columbia University; Bin Li, assistant professor at the Naveen Jindal School of Management, University of Texas at Dallas; Shivaram Rajgopal, the Roy Bernard Kester and T.W. Byrnes professor of accounting and auditing at Columbia University; and Mohan Venkatachalam, RJ Reynolds professor of business administration at Fuqua School of Business, Duke University. (Read the full story.)