FLORIDAThe Boynton office of Gilman Ciocia Inc. has moved to a larger space at 970 North Congress Ave., while its Palm Beach Gardens operations have moved to offices in Jupiter at the Admirals Professional Center at 3535 Military Trail. ... Morrison, Brown, Argiz & Farra LLP, Miami, topped the South Florida Business Journal's list of Top Accounting Firms for the third year.
MARYLAND
Bookkeeping Express has opened an office in Baltimore to serve as the corporate hub. It also recently opened a franchise location in Rockville, and in Prince William County, Va.
MASSACHUSETTS
Rucci Bardaro & Barrett PC, Malden, has merged in Mathias Barnes & Henshaw PC, Lexington. Roy Henshaw, a founder and managing partner of MBH, has joined RBB as a partner. ... G.T. Reilly & Co. has had its most recent peer review report accepted by the the Massachusetts Peer Review Acceptance Board of the Massachusetts Society of CPAs.
MICHIGAN
Maner Costerisan, Lansing, has moved to a new office at 2425 E. Grand River Ave., Ste. 1, in the Michigan Millers Building. The firm has also adopted a new logo and shortened its name from Maner, Costerisan & Ellis. ... The Rehmann Group, Troy, has been named an Elite Winner in the 2008 101 Best and Brightest Companies to Work For Awards by the Michigan Business & Professional Association and the National Association for Business Resources.
NEW JERSEY
Hunter Group CPA LLC, Fair Lawn, has received an unmodified report in an independent peer review. ... Goldstein Lieberman and Co., Mahwah, has launched a new Recession-Expert Accounting Consultant Team, or REACT, to help business clients through the recession.
NEW YORK
The Association of Certified Fraud Examiners announced a donation to York College of the City University of New York, Queens, to provide an endowment for the ACFE Endowed Professor of Fraud Examination, to support the college's first endowed professor. ... Mayer & Co. LLP has moved its New York City location to a larger office at 14 Penn Plaza, Ste. 1011. ... The Fuoco Group LLP has merged in Krostich & Krostich LLP, Roslyn Heights. ... Citrin Cooperman & Co. LLP, New York City, has merged in Massella & Associates CPA PLLC and the SEC Solutions Group LLC. Corey L. Massella, who founded both firms, will join Citrin as CEO of the SEC Solutions Group and as a partner. Two managers, a senior and an administrator have also joined the firm. Separately, the firm has created a Growth & Protection Team to provide business consulting services to privately held small and midsized businesses. It will be led by partner-in-charge Alan Badey. ... Daylight Forensic & Advisory, New York, has created a Financial Regulatory Task Force to help clients address compliance and governance structures for bank and thrift holding company conversions, bank formations, and newly regulated segments in the financial industry. ... Gettry Marcus Stern & Lehrer CPA PC has expanded its Woodbury office.
OHIO
Ciuni & Panichi Inc., Cleveland, received the Medical Mutual Pillar Award for Community Service from Medical Mutual of Ohio and Smart Business, while Rea & Associates Inc., New Philadelphia, received the 2008 Pillar SHARE Award for Community Service.
TEXAS
Weaver and Tidwell LLP, Dallas-Ft. Worth, has merged in Polansky McNutt Perry & Co. PC, San Antonio. Edward Polansky has been named San Antonio executive partner; Laura McNutt will lead the local tax practice; and John Crider will lead the location assurance practice. All of the firm's employees will join the combined firm.
VIRGINIA
The Virginia Society of CPAs, Richmond, received a 2008 Best in Virginia Award from the Richmond Chapter of the International Association of Business Communicators for its Financial Fitness community service initiative, while the Virginia Society of CPAs Educational Foundation received an Award of Merit in the Writing/Special Projects Category.
