CALIFORNIA
Holthouse Carlin & Van Trigt LLP has opened a seventh Southland office in Camarillo, at 400 West Ventura Boulevard, Suite 250. Two of the firm's partners, William L. Warburton and John R. Lilly, and several principals and managers, will be based in the new office.
ILLINOIS
RGL Forensics has opened a second office in Chicago, which will focus on the insurance practice area. Partner Tim Voncina will head the new office, which is located in Itasca. ... Grant Thornton LLP, Chicago, has been named a Preferred Implementer of CCH Global Integrator, a Web-based tax provisioning and reporting tool from CCH, a Wolters Kluwer business.
MARYLAND
AVF Consulting Inc., Towson, has earned "Certified for Microsoft Dynamics" reseller status from Microsoft Corp.
NEW YORK
EisnerAmper LLP, New York City, has launched a Consulting Services Group. The group will be led by partner Jim Mack, and will focus on risk management and services to regulated industries. ... XBRL US has launched the XBRL Challenge, offering a $20,000 grand prize to the company, team or individual developer who submits the most inventive and useful application leveraging XBRL-formatted data from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission EDGAR database. Details are available on Facebook at http://xbrl.us/challengefb or at http://xbrl.us/challenge.
PENNSYLVANIA
Citrin Cooperman gave scholarships to two graduating high school seniors from Philadelphia as part of the firm's 7th Annual High School Accounting / Business Student Grant Program. The firm also gave out nine scholarships in several other states, including New Jersey, Connecticut and New York, for a total of 11. Donovan Outen of the Boys' Latin of Philadelphia Charter School and Stuart Richard Davis of the Mathematics Civics and Sciences Charter School will each receive a $1,000 annual grant for four years. Outen will attend Ursinus College in Collegeville, Pa., and Davis will be attending Temple University in Philadelphia.
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