MNP, one of Canada’s largest Chartered Accounting firms, will merge in Montreal-based William Epstein, Chartered Accountants, effective October 1.

Kansas accounting firm Summers Spencer & Co. has absorbed Overland Park, Kan.-based accounting firm James F. Gillespie CPA through a merger, reported the Kansas City Business Journal.

Financial services conglomerate Bloomberg and tax publisher BNA have entered into an agreement for Bloomberg to acquire all outstanding shares of BNA in a deal worth roughly $990 million, it was announced Thursday.

McGladrey & Pullen announced Tuesday that its board of directors has reached an agreement with H&R Block to purchase back RSM McGladrey Inc. for $610 million, reuniting the assurance, tax and consulting practices under an integrated McGladrey & Pullen partnership structure.

Private equity firm Bain Capital has signed a deal to purchase Australian accounting software company MYOB for about $1.3 billion, beating out offers from UK’s Sage Group and private equity giant Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.

Moss Adams LLP has combined with Warinner, Gesinger & Associates, expanding Moss Adams’ footprint to the Midwest and augmenting the firm’s telecommunications industry practice.

Accounting Transition Advisors, a consultancy specializing in accounting firm M&A and succession planning, has brought high-profile consultant Chris Frederiksen aboard as its West Coast partner.

Arizona accounting firm Price, Kong & Co. CPAs has combined forces with Bernard & Stallman P.C.

CPA firm Porte Brown LLC said Tuesday that it has acquired two other tax and accounting firms in the past quarter in the Chicago area.

Drake Software has acquired Copanion and its GruntWorx line of tax workflow software for an undisclosed sum.

Reinsel Kuntz Lesher LLP has added a Senior Living Services Consulting Group, brought over from ParenteBeard, to its services.

MNP, one of the largest Chartered Accounting firms in Canada said it would merge in Calgary-based Rahal Warren & Chugh, effective September 1.

CCH, a Wolters Kluwer business, has acquired cloud-based sales tax automation service provider SpeedTax, allowing it to continues its expansion in the corporate market—particularly small to medium sized enterprises and CPA firms that serve them that are looking for a pure SaaS offering.

CBIZ has signed a deal to acquire the non-attest business of Thompson Dunavant, expanding the firm’s presence to Memphis, while CBIZ’s affiliated auditing firm, Mayer Hoffman McCann, will acquire Thompson Dunavant’s attest business.

Wisconsin accounting firms Schenck SC and Rajek, Grimm & Associates have combined, expanding Schenk’s footprint to the central part of the state.

Enterprise Worldwide and Acuity Capital are teaming up to help CPA firms offer merger and acquisition intermediary services in their practices.

Cloud-based electronic invoice presentment and payment software provider Data Impact and electronic bill presentment and payment software maker Transactis have completed a merger.

Thomson Reuters has completed its previously announced acquisition of tax automation concern Manatron and with the purchase, said it would fold Manatron into a newly created government business unit within the Tax & Accounting business.

MNP LLP, one of Canada’s largest chartered accounting and consulting firms, plans to merge in Stern Cohen Shier Inc., an insolvency firm based in the Toronto area, effective Sept. 1.

Washington, D.C.-based CPA firm Martin & Wall has joined with Milwaukee-based Chortek & Gottschalk, becoming a division of C&G.