Private equity

The Top 50 Firm based in Atlanta is absorbing three acquisitions it made last year while planning on future dealmaking.

The Top 25 Firm acquired Browne Consulting Group, expanding its presence in Boston and strengthening its expertise in the life sciences and biotech sectors.

Jennifer Wilson of ConvergenceCoaching cross-examines the potential impact of private equity on accounting firms, and on the profession as a whole.

The Top 75 Firm has added an audit and accounting firm in New York, the latest deal after receiving private equity funding.

An increase in private equity acquisitions has made odd bedfellows of once-disparate, competing accounting firms.

The Top 25 Firm based in New York is expanding its presence in the Sunshine State by buying a firm in Hollywood, Florida.

The PE-backed accounting platform has added Tyler, Texas-based Gollob Morgan Peddy, further expanding its footprint in the Southwest.

Nichols Cauley is creating a new platform through a PE-backed merger with Partners Risk Services and JGH Consulting, with former Baker Tilly chief Alan Whitman as CEO.

Not interested in private equity? You're in luck: There's a host of other strategic investors looking to partner with accounting firms

Less than 5% of people in accounting will ever become partners; why is it touted as one of the profession's key rewards?

Accounting's top influencers look back at the profession's biggest shifts.

As part of this year's Top 100 Most Influential People survey, Accounting Today asked, "What has been the most important change in accounting during your career?"

The institute has proposed a set of revisions to its Code of Professional Conduct regarding the structures set up by firms with private equity investment.

Two-thirds of firms say they don't need outside capital, and of the third that do, the most common reason they're looking might surprise you.

Accountants at firms that have taken private equity backing are divided on the results, a new study shows.

Top 50 Firm Ascend announced the acquisition of Sweeney Conrad in Kirkland, Washington, expanding its presence in the region.

Sorren, based in Meridian, Idaho, has added Casey Neilon, an accounting consultancy in Nevada, to its national network.

The accounting profession is seriously divided over the value of private equity, and its potential impact on the profession.

Partners at firms that have chosen to remain independent are now asking whether a firm's internal buyout multiple should be adjusted.

The deal will expand the Top 10 Firm's footprint to South Florida and its existing presence on the East Coast.