CALIFORNIA
Aiello, Goodrich & Teuscher, Mount Shasta, and Hathaway & Ksenzulak LLP, Redding, have joined Firm Foundation, an association of firms that it is a division of RSM McGladrey. ... Greenstein Rogoff Olsen & Co. has opened a new office in Danville. Mary Kay Foss has joined the firm as a director, and will manage the operations at the new office.
FLORIDA
Gilman Ciocia, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., has acquired certain assets of Madison CPA PA, Fort Lauderdale. All Madison staff will move to GC's offices in Fort Lauderdale. ... Kerkering, Barberio & Co. PA, Sarasota, has received the Alfred P. Sloan Award for Business Excellence in Workplace Flexibility from the When Work Works project, an initiative of the Families and Work Institute. ... Argy, Wiltse & Robinson PC, McLean, Va., has acquired Spear Safer CPAs & Advisors, Miami.
INDIANA
Crowe Chizek and Co. LLC, is celebrating 65 years in South Bend, where it was founded in 1942 by Fred Crowe Sr. and Cletus Chizek.
THE NETHERLANDS
Gibo Groep Accountants en Adviseurs BV, Arnhem, has joined BKR International.
NEW JERSEY
CPA Associates International Inc., Rutherford, announced a number of new member firms: Layton, Layton & Tobler LLP, Las Vegas; Neel, Crafton & Phillips LLP, Henderson, Ky.; Eisa Alderbasti Accounting & Auditing, Doha, Qatar; FMC Financial Management & Consulting Co., Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam; and Qingdao Qindo CPAs Co. Ltd., Qingdao City, China.
NEW YORK
The Long Island Chapter of the Financial Planning Association has received the Pinnacle Award, the highest level of achievement in the FPA's Chapter Recognition Program. ... Media Aspects, New York City, an InterDyn AKA company, has been recognized with the Microsoft Competency Award for the firm's industry expertise and development of DynamicsADvantage.
VIRGINIA
The Virginia Society of CPAs Educational Foundation, Richmond, has added three new $2,500 annual accounting scholarships this year -- the H. Burton Bates Jr. Scholarship, the Thomas M. Berry Jr. Scholarship, and the Yount, Hyde & Barbour Scholarship. In addition, the Virginia Society of CPAs received Honorable Mention awards for its Financial Fitness community service initiative and Disclosures magazine in the 2007 Best in Virginia Awards, sponsored by the Richmond Chapter of the International Association of Business Communicators.
