Global CPA and business advisory firm Grant Thornton is currently in negotiations to acquire Boston-based regional firm CCR, according to the Boston Business Journal.

Corporate acquisitions using overpriced shares of stock rarely do much to cushion the decline the shares eventually suffer, according to a new study.

Moss, Krusick & Associates has merged in the firm Dexter & Associates, expanding the firm’s presence in Orlando, Fla.

Grant Thornton said Monday the firm has acquired Computer Technology Associates’ Health Solutions division and, in a separate announcement, has also launched a Japan Business Group.

Sikich LLP has entered into a merger agreement with an Indianapolis-based accounting, tax and management consulting firm with the unusually punctuated name of Ent : Imler CPA, PC.

Nanavaty, Nanavaty & Davenport LLP, a CPA and business advisory firm based in Newtown, Conn., has merged in Ronald C. Chickering’s CPA firm, effective Nov. 1.

Wild, Maney & Resnick LLP has merged Stephen W. Irwin & Company CPAs into its firm in Long Island, effective Nov. 1.

All-female CPA firm Domachowski Kempisty & Salvatore has joined Tronconi Segarra & Associates, offering a new option for companies seeking a larger regional CPA firm in the upstate New York area.

CPA and business advisory firm Henry & Horne has acquired the Phoenix-based practice of Mazza, Spero, Hougham & Schultz, effective November 1.

CPA wealth management firm Glass Jacobson merged in OneSource Financial Services of Montgomery Village, Md., on Tuesday.

BDO USA has added the six partners and more than 60 staff members of the San Antonio-based accounting firm Carneiro, Chumney & Co., effectively merging in the firm and expanding BDO’s presence in Texas.

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Clifton Gunderson and LarsonAllen have confirmed they plan to merge in the New Year into a combined firm known as CliftonLarsonAllen.

Minnesota accounting firm Boulay, Heutmaker, Zibell & Co. has merged in Hansen, Jergenson, Nergaard & Co., effective Oct. 31.

Maple Grove, Minn.-based accounting firm David B. Campbell, Ltd., has signed a letter of intent to join Kern, DeWenter, Viere, Ltd., expanding KDV’s presence in the Twin Cities region of Minnesota.

J.H. Cohn LLP has expanded its presence in New England by merging in Kostin, Ruffkess & Company LLC, a firm with three offices in Connecticut and Western Massachusetts.

A pair of Ohio CPA firms have merged: A.S. Fricano & Co. CPAs and Daniel D. Wolfe, CPA.

Friedman LLP has merged in the Sacomanno Valuation Group, a firm that focuses on business valuation and forensic accounting.

Lewis & Knopf CPAs, a regional accounting and business advisory firm based in Flint, Mich., has merged in Fenton, Mich.-based Leroy G. Johnson, CPA, effective October 19.

Dixon Hughes Goodman plans to merge in the accounting firm Swart Lalande & Associates in Fairfax, Va., effective November 1.