Congressional stalling on tax reform, currency fluctuations and mixed signals from the Federal Reserve on an interest-rate hike are making strategic planning difficult for CFOs, according to a new survey by Grant Thornton.

Prager Metis has merged in Peter Bryan & Co., a specialist accounting and tax consulting firm in London, England.

Top 100 firm Citrin Cooperman has merged in Regardie, Brooks & Lewis, a regional accounting firm based in Bethesda, Md.

CliftonLarsonAllen is merging in the information security consulting firm TrustCC, effective Sept. 1.

Regional Leader firm of Hartford, Conn., Whittlesey & Hadley, has agreed to merge in Weinstein & Anastasio PC of Hamden, Conn. The merger represents Whittlesey & Hadley’s growth plan to expand services, diversify geographically and continue to grow in size, services and staff.

Armanino announced that Silicon Valley professional services firm The Brenner Group will become an Armanino company, effective Sept. 1.

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Moss Adams announced it has agreed to combine with boutique IT consulting firm Curtis Consulting Group to expand the firm’s IT consulting and software development capabilities.

Deepening its health care industry practice, Top 100 Firm, Doeren Mayhew, has acquired the Farmington, Mich.-based dental CPA firm, Davis and Davis.

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Net@Work announced the acquisition of consultancy and Sage reseller AXIS Integrated Solutions.

Top 100 Firm Eide Bailly LLP has agreed to merge in Ogden-based James & Co.

Real-Time Computer Services Incorporated will now operate as Citrin Cooperman Technology Consulting.

BDO USA saw a whopping 26 percent spike in annual revenue for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2015, growing to $1.05 billion from $833 million last year.

Hodgson Pratt Pratt & Saunders of New Bedford, Mass., has joined the Top 100 firm CliftonLarsonAllen.

BDO USA has expanded throughout Central Florida with the addition of 95 professionals and staff from Cross, Fernandez & Riley LLP.

Deloitte has acquired substantially all of the assets of Compliance Implementation Services, a life sciences compliance consulting firm. CIS will join Deloitte Advisory, the market-leading risk and financial advisory practice, as part of its regulatory compliance market offering. Effective immediately, the business will operate as "CIS by Deloitte."

KPMG has entered into an agreement with Towers Watson, a talent and human capital professional services organization, to acquire the company's Human Resources Service Delivery practice.

The Institute of Internal Auditors and the Auditing Roundtable, Inc. have signed a merger agreement after more than a year of negotiations.

Bethesda-based accounting firm Romano & Mitchell, Chartered, has agreed to merge in with Dembo Jones. The combined firm will operate under the Dembo Jones name.