CALIFORNIA

Kruze Consulting, San Francisco, released new data on travel, salary and rent expenses from more than 450 venture-funded startups that found the economic recovery is on the upswing based on recent travel spending reaching or surpassing pre-pandemic levels.

ILLINOIS

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Grant Thornton, Chicago, announced a commitment to net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 as part of the global effort to limit the planet’s temperature rise to 1.5 degrees or less. (Read the full story.)

RSM, Chicago, released its most recent “Technology, Media and Telecom Industry Outlook,” available here.

INDIA

SBS and Co., Hyderabad, joined MGI Worldwide.

INDIANA

Oak Street Funding, Indianapolis, a First Financial Bank company specializing in loan products and services for lines of business including CPAs, announced it is doubling the lending limit for customers to support mergers and acquisitions, successions, technology investments and growth-focused initiatives.

KENTUCKY

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Bill Dermody
Bill Dermody was named Louisville office leader at Dean Dorton.

Rhonda Clark was named executive director of the Association for Accounting Marketing, Lexington, where she was most recently association manager, starting Jan. 1, 2022.


NAMIBIA

Windhoek Accounting and Taxation, Windhoek, joined Andersen Global as a member firm of the international association.

NEW HAMPSHIRE

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Teressa Bezenar
Teressa Bezenar and Garrett Kelly were hired as managers in the commercial services team at Melanson, Merrimack.

NEW JERSEY

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Edvin Givargis
Edvin Givargis was hired as a partner to lead the state and local tax practice of Sax, Parsippany.

NEW MEXICO

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Tamara Beall
Tamara Beall, tax manager at REDW, Albuquerque, was awarded the Outstanding Member in Community Service Award by the New Mexico Society of CPAs, where she has served on the board of directors for several years. She is now in her second tour as president and is currently acting treasurer of Read West, an organization focused on supporting parent and family literacy, and has also served on the board of nonprofit public health organization Women to Be.

NEW YORK

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EY offices in London
Ernst & Young, New York, released its 2021 U.S. audit quality report, “Our commitment to audit quality,” highlighting improvements in audit quality and steps the firm is taking to continue to improve audit quality and strengthen its system of quality control.

Anchin, New York, promoted, to partner: David Bechman in the litigation, forensic and valuation services group; Vincent Gatto to tax partner and member of Anchin Private Client; Brent Lessey to tax partner in the consumer products group and the transaction advisory services practice; and Adam Pizzo to assurance partner in the technology group; to accounting and audit directors: Reed Ellison in the architecture & engineering and construction industry group and Jerico Mascarinas in the consumer products group; to senior manager: Xiao Jing Fei in the tax department; Rebecca Long and Kevin McHale in real estate; and Brendan Kurpis and Danielle Montesano in the architecture, engineering and construction group.

The International Auditing and Accounting Standards Board, New York, announced appointments and reappointments, effective Jan. 1, 2022, appointing: William Edge, chair, Australian Auditing and Assurance Standards Board; and Warren Maroun, professor, School of Accountancy, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa; and reappointing: Kai Morten Hagen, technical director at Den norske Revisorforening (Norwegian Institute of Public Accountants); Sachiko Kai, technical director, Japanese Institute of Certified Public Accountants; and Eric Turner, former director, Canadian Auditing and Assurance Standards Board.

BKR International, New York, partnered with the American Institute of CPAs Foundation to promote the foundation’s centennial anniversary and capital campaign, making a monetary commitment to the foundation’s capital campaign and actively encouraging its member firms to participate.

PENNSYLVANIA

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Ryan Moore
Ryan Moore was hired as a partner in the tax services group at RKL, Lancaster, returning to the firm where he started his accounting career as a staff associate in 2005. In other firm news, RKL partnered with cloud-based health care software PointClickCare so the firm’s senior living consulting team can help senior living orgations in optimizing their processes and service delivery.

TEXAS

Jon Karp, partner at Whitley Penn, Dallas, was named the 2021 Chairman for the Texas Business Hall of Fame.

VIRGINIA

The Virginia Society of CPAs, in partnership with Virginia Business magazine, released the annual Economic Expectations Survey, which revealed a little more than half of Virginia CPAs are very or somewhat optimistic about the U.S. and Virginia economies for 2022. (The results are available here.)

Meadows Urquhart Acree & Cook, Richmond, launched a social media campaign on Facebook and LinkedIn with the hashtag #AccountantsAreFun during the month of November.

WASHINGTON

Sweeney Conrad, Kirkland, promoted 20 employees: Jamie Gardner and Sara West to senior audit manager; Nick Hardy, Catherine Hendrickson and Keri Marsh to senior tax manager; David Halfhill, Shirley Huang, Courtney Krehoff and Connor Tidd to tax manager; Ben Allen and Madison Oraivej to senior audit associate; Sherry Browne, Brenda Licata and Ann Stryker to senior administrative assistant; Judi Davila to senior client accounting services associate; and Nicholas Deehring, Nestor Fiallos, Ben Gardner, Tan Khuu and Michael Ripley to senior tax associate.

WISCONSIN

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CLA's Irvine office
CliftonLarsonAllen promoted, in the Appleton office: Jon Gibson to manager, Lisa Horn to principal, and Brian Zahn to signing director; in the Fond du Lac office: Bryan Lehner to director and Michelle Wood to signing director; in Oshkosh: Ben Lamers to director and Paul Westberg to principal; and in Green Bay: Marc Belanger to manager; Dylan Frea, Travis Tilque and Tyler Ninneman to director; and Leah Lasecki and Nate Loest to principal.

The National Association of Tax Professionals, Appleton, announced a joint project with Drake Software, Taxes Today, a series of free roundtable video discussions with experts from Drake and the NATP discussing complex tax topics and industry news.
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