PKF O’Connor Davies adds 16 professionals from Scialo, Reimann & Varley CPA, effective Jan. 1, 2017.

Transition Advisors CEO Terry Putney discusses why client retention makes mergers a success.

Corrigan Krause has acquired Klinc & Associates, a firm based in Solon, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland.

Stambaugh Ness expanded its presence in Pennsylvania by acquiring Bergdoll & Company.

Terry Putney, the CEO of Transition Advisers, talks with Accounting Today editor-in-chief Dan Hood about making a cultural fit in a firm merger.

HBK CPAs & Consultants has signed a merger agreement with Resnick, Amsterdam, Leshner, P.C., adding an office in Blue Bell, Pa., to Canfield, Ohio-based HBK, along with clients in the sports industry.

Prager Metis CPAs LLC is expanding its presence on Long Island by merging in Cohen Greve & Company CPA P.C., effective Jan. 1, 2017.

After months of sluggishness, a recent uptick in M&A activity could mean zero-based budgeting is having its own moment in the spotlight. A form of budgeting that scrutinizes costs across every part of the business, ZBB often comes into its own in the wake of an M&A deal.

Brixey & Meyer has expanded its presence in Cincinnati by acquiring a second CPA firm in the area, Kamphaus, Henning & Hood.

BDO Consulting has expanded its forensic technology services practice by adding the e-Discovery practice of Key Discovery, a litigation support service provider based in Boston.

Mazur, Krieghbaum & Higgins CPAs announced it is merging with McCarthy & Company, a Philadelphia firm that specializes in the construction industry.

Top 100 Firm Armanino LLP is combining with valuation firm Financial Strategies Consulting Group, effective Jan. 1, 2017.

Top 20 accounting and consulting firm Wipfli announced it is merging in Milwaukee-based firm Benes & Krueger.

Charlotte, N.C.-based accounting firms BGW CPA and Hawkins Conrad & Co. have combined.

Top 10 Firm CliftonLarsonAllen will merge with Top 100 Firm and West Coast powerhouse Gallina, effective Jan. 1, 2017.

Top 15 Firm BKD announced that it will merge with Midwestern firm Kiesling Associates LLP, effective Dec. 4.

Top 100 Firm and Southeast super-regional Carr, Riggs & Ingram LLC has merged in Dallas-based Vogel CPAs PC.

Eide Bailly is adding the accounting firm Daines Goodwin & Co., effective Dec. 5, 2016, expanding Eide Bailly’s presence in Utah.

Weyrich, Cronin and Sorra is adding Greenberg Ettlin & Associates, extending WC&S’s presence in Maryland’s Cecil County.