CALIFORNIA

New York - Multinational accounting and advisory firm Mazars Group has been in talks with New York-based accounting firm Weiser LLP in a merger that would create the sixth largest accounting firm in the world.

Accounting firm Grassi & Co. is expanding its presence in New York and New Jersey, with the partners and staff of Soloway, Goldstein, Silverstein & Co. joining the firm in Manhattan.

Over two thirds of CFOs at leading U.S. technology businesses expect sales revenue at their companies to increase this year, according to a survey by accounting firm BDO.

Ohio-based accounting and consulting firm Brady Ware is expanding to Georgia by merging with Atlanta-based Marsh & McConnell.

Waddell, Smith, Magoon & Freeman has merged with two local firms in the Atlanta area, Gruber & Co. and Pechter & Associates., expanding WSM&F’s client base and combined revenue by about 40 percent.

LarsonAllen has merged in Chicago-based accounting firm Africk Chez, building the Minneapolis-based firm’s presence in the Windy City.

Sikich LLP has agreed to combine with CPA firm Stelmacki, Cochran & Sauerburger, building Sikich’s presence in the St. Louis area.

Accounting and consulting firm WebsterRogers has opened offices in Columbia, S.C., after acquiring the CPA practice of Finch, Hallbick & Co., whose principals have provided services in Columbia for over 40 years.

Multinational accounting and advisory firm Mazars Group has been in talks with New York-based Weiser LLP in a merger that would create the sixth largest accounting firm in the world.

Calvetti, Ferguson & Wagner, P.C., a CPA and business advisory firm specializing in tax, audit and advisory solutions, sealed a partnership with global transactional concern Verse Consulting that will bolster its international tax offerings to mid-market companies.

CBIZ has acquired National Benefit Alliance, an employee benefits firm based in Midvale, Utah.

New Jersey accounting firm Cullari, Gallo, Soojian, Carraba LLC has merged with Carrico Associates P.A.

Accounting and consulting firm Rehmann has combined with Cleveland-based Dawson Wealth Management, increasing the size of Rehmann’s wealth management practice to over $1 billion in assets under management.

CPA and business advisory firm The Resnick Druckman Group has merged in New York-based practices, Sigmund Balaban & Co. and Gilbert, Wolff and Co., effective immediately.

Two former partners in the accounting firm Sturn Wagner Lombardo & Co., Andrew R. Lombardo and Matthew C. Wagner, are merging with J. Brian Stitcher, owner of the accounting firm SRM & Co., to form a new firm, Lombardo Wagner Stitcher and Co. LLC.

ACCOUNTING STAFF CUTBACKS SHOULD SLOW

Throughout 2009, those in the accounting professionneeded a scorecard to track the flurry of CPA firm mergers that occurred between the start of the year and the final refrain of "Auld Lange Syne."

ARKANSAS

Sikich LLP has merged in two IT service consulting firms, Hal Weinberger Consulting and MAS Consulting, in the latest examples of the firm’s merger spree.