Crowe Horwath has signed an agreement with Grobstein Horwath that will effectively merge the two firms.

Accounting firm Eide Bailly has expanded by combining with three other practices: Gordon, Hughes & Banks; Keller, Young & Grover; and Magee, Rausch & Shelton.

CCH Small Firm Services, part of Wolters Kluwer Tax and Accounting, has acquired IntelliTax, a tax software company formerly known as Orrtax Software Solutions.

The Rehmann Group plans to merge with MSW Group to create Michigan's second largest wealth management and consulting firm. The merger is expected to take effect on Jan. 1, 2009. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Accounting firm LarsonAllen has combined with yet another firm - Davis, Keller and Wiggins - expanding its presence in the St. Louis area and its automobile dealership client base.

Kellogg & Andelson Accountancy is expanding its presence here by acquiring the West Los Angeles office of Kelson Rood Stoll & Winkler.

Oklahoma-based CPA firms Hogan & Slovacek and Tullius Taylor Sartain & Sartain said they would merge, effective Jan. 1, 2009.

WebsterRogers said it is merging in another South Carolina accounting firm, Bryan, Truesdale, Adkins & Williams.

iPro One said it has acquired a minority ownership interest in Tegra Financial Partners, an affiliate of the Georgia accounting firm Habif, Arogeti & Wynne.

Harper, Van Scoik & Co. is merging with Carr, Riggs & Ingram, the fourth largest accounting firm in the Southeast, expanding the combined firms' services in the Tampa Bay area.

Wolters Kluwer Tax and Accounting has acquired CI Consultancy Limited, an Irish developer of operational risk control systems for financial institutions and corporations.

The Rehmann Group plans to merge with MSW Group to create Michigan's second largest wealth management and consulting firm.

Clark Schaefer Hackett has acquired the Clemans Group, a health care consulting firm, adding extra resources for advising hospitals, medical practices and dentist’s offices.

RGL Forensic Accountants & Consultants has acquired Impact Forensics, a computer forensics and electronic discovery firm based in Chicago.

Jefferson Wells has acquired the Gelber Organization to build its state and local tax services.

Deloitte & Touche has signed a memorandum of understanding with Canadian accounting firm Scott Rankin & Gardner for a potential merger.

I write the "M&A" update box in Practical Accountant's Profession Watch section, and one of the details we give for firms recently merged or acquired is "Niches/Concentrations."

Rodefer Moss & Co. plans to merge with Melhiser Endres Tucker, expanding the firm from its Tennessee base into Indiana and Kentucky.

Accounting firm J.H. Cohn has combined practices with Frederic Kantor & Co., a Manhattan-based accounting firm serving high-net-worth individuals and families in entertainment and the creative arts.The merger came on the heels of J.H. Cohn’s combination with Good Swartz Brown & Berns in Southern California. No cash was exchanged in the business combination, according to marketing director Amy Koeppl.

Morningstar plans to acquire Financial Computer Support Inc., a provider of practice management software for investment advisors.