Brock, Schechter & Polakoff LLP has added Gould & Swanson PC and John P. Whitty PC to its firm.

GBH CPAs PC and Prather Kalman have merged their practices under the GBH name. The combined firm will have about 40 employees.

Tostevin Accountancy Inc. has merged with PMB Helin Donovan, Consultants & CPAs.

Infor has purchased cloud-based human capital management analysis product maker PeopleAnswers for an undisclosed sum.

The acquisition is part of the firm’s initiative to expand its Small Business practice.

Accounting and consulting firm Armanino has purchased Rose Business Solutions, effectively combining the Microsoft Dynamics consulting and reselling businesses.

The newly added firm will operate under the Mowery & Schoenfeld name. Wolowicki & Associates has since relocated to Mowery & Schoenfeld's offices in Lincolnshire, Ill.

Kreinces Rollins & Shanker LLC has reached an agreement to acquire the tax practice of Robert A. Samsel LLC of Lodi, N.J.

From my observation there appears to be a major vision problem with CPA firms: no formal strategic plan for growth other than mergers and acquisitions.

Check out the digital edition of the January 2014 issue of Accounting Today.

CliftonLarsonAllen has acquired Bankers Advisory Inc., a Belmont, Mass.-based consulting firm that works with mortgage institutions on regulatory compliance and quality control.

Wipfli LLP has added the partners and associates of Tinley Park, Ill.-based The Condon Group Ltd. to the firm.

BlumShapiro has combined with the Newton, Mass.-based firm Friedman, Suvalle & Salomon PC.

Accounting firm mergers & acquisitions from the previous month

Our virtual roundtable of experts looks at the landscape for firm mergers and acquisitions in the coming year

Howard, Wershbale & Co. has merged in Mentor, Ohio-based Deimling, Forbes & Associates Inc., and rebranded itself HW&Co.

St. Louis-area firms Scheffel & Co. PC and J.W. Boyle & Co. Ltd. have announced that they will be merging on Jan. 1, 2014, to form Scheffel Boyle.

Full-service Minnesota financial firm Apple Valley Accounting & Tax has acquired Gilbertson CPA, with office locations in New Prague and Burnsville.

Smart Tax, a 28-unit tax preparation chain, has acquired 15-unit chain Eagle Tax Services.

This was quite a busy year with large vendor financings, acquisitions, cloud and mobile growth and new products galore but I think rather than an expected year in review (we have a pretty good slideshow on that), I thought I’d offer my take on what 2014 will likely bring in the way of accounting technology news.