A roundup of mergers & acquisitions among accounting firms

The past couple of weeks have been a period where you have to ask, “what didn’t happen?” Rebranding, major financings, practice growth, practice closures; we had it all.

Top CPA firm ParenteBeard recently announced to its clients that it is closing its two-decade old technology practice, ParenteBeard Technology, effective this Friday, November 29.

WeiserMazars LLP has merged with the Resnick Druckman Group LLC.

Kabat, Schertzer, De La Torre, Taraboulos & Co. has plans to merge with Homestead, Fla.-based Conn & Sharp PA. The combination is expected to go into effect on December 1.

The Bonadio Group and Stulmaker, Kohn & Richardson have finalized an arrangement to merge, and will operate under the Bonadio name beginning December 1.

Long-time Sage North America partner RKL eSolutions has effectively expanded its Sage 500 ERP practice, primarily by taking on former consultants, executives and product customers from Portland, Ore.-based Sage partner ISM.

FinancialForce.com has acquired human capital management software maker Vana Workforce and supply chain management software business Less Software for an undisclosed amount.

Top 100 Firm Eide Bailly LLP has added Denver-based NetSuite solutions provider Next Business Systems, boosting its established cloud reselling practice.

KPMG International has set up KPMG Capital, an investment fund that aims to accelerate innovation in data and analytics to help clients of KPMG’s member firms unlock the value of their data.

Barnes Dennig and Bertke, Sparks & Kremer, have agreed to merge.

McGladrey LLP has signed a definitive agreement to acquire substantially all the assets of Houston-based Margolis, Phipps & Wright PC.

Hanna McGlone & Co. has agreed to join Smart Devine.

Beck & Co. LLC has agreed to merge with Berdon LLP.

CBIZ Inc. has acquired the non-attest assets of Denver, Co-based Knight Field Fabry LLP.

Lionel B. Sanders CPA has merged with the Santa Monica, Calif-based accounting firm Gumbiner Savett Inc.

William Vaughan Co. has merged with Miller, Gardner & Co. .

Bartolomei Pucciarelli CPAs & Advisors sealed the deal to merge with Hill, Barth & King.

Goldstein/Sacks & Associates has agreed to merge with Alexander Thompson Arnold CPAs.

Pry Professional Group has agreed to merge with Gilmore, Jasion & Mahler LTD and will take on GJM’s name.