Clifton Gunderson has acquired Farrell & Associates, expanding the firm’s footprint in Illinois.

COLORADO

Cohen, Doren, Addeo & Co. has joined Fazio, Mannuzza, Roche, Tankel, LaPilusa LLC, expanding Fazio Mannuzza’s presence in New Jersey to Jersey City.

CALIFORNIA

ADP has acquired MasterTax LLC and MasterTax Services, expanding the payroll giant’s array of payroll tax and compliance services.

SS&G completed a merger Wednesday with Ahlbeck & Co., expanding the Cleveland-based accounting and consulting firm’s presence to Chicago.

Meyers Norris Penny, one of Canada’s largest accounting and business advisory firms, said it would merge with Montreal-based firm WSBG, effective Jan. 1, 2011.

Two Sacramento-area accounting firms, Gallina LLP and Burnett + Company LLP, have agreed to combine, effective Oct. 1.

McGladrey & Pullen and a firm it acquired four years ago have agreed to pay the Commodity Futures Trading Commission a total of $1.7 million for their audits of the bankrupt Sentinel Management Group.

CPA and advisory firm Anton Collins Mitchell has merged with Greeley, Colo.-based Watkins & Schommer, giving ACM a presence in Northern Colorado.

Global CPA and business advisory firm Grant Thornton has acquired the Disputes and Investigations Practice of Huron Consulting.

Marcum LLP has combined with Stonefield Josephson, expanding the firm’s footprint to California and Hong Kong.

Indianapolis accounting firms Murphy, McClary, Stover and Burnett LLC and Horn CPA Group PC have merged to form Meridian CPAs.

CPA and business advisory firm Abrams Little-Gill Loberfeld has acquired the tax practice of Walpole, Mass.-based Lawrence K. Landy, CPA.

Sage reseller Blytheco made another move to further grow its SalesLogix and overall customer relationship management business with the purchase of the SalesLogix practice of Result Data Consulting Ltd.

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Florida accounting firms Saltmarsh, Cleaveland & Gund and Stogniew & Associates are combining, effective Oct. 1.

Michigan accounting firms Lewis & Knopf CPAs PC, and Thomas R. Haggerty CPA PC have combined forces.

ATLANTA

Thomson Reuters has acquired TaxSimple, one of the last independent software companies in the tax software market.