Mueller CPA has merged in Mulcahy, Pauritsch, Salvador & Co., another firm in the Chicago area, effective Jan. 1, 2018, building its presence around the Windy City.

MSPC Certified Public Accountants and Advisors, P.C., a firm based in Cranford, N.J., has merged in Ennis Hargadon, a firm based in Cliffside Park, N.J., effective Jan. 1, 2018.

All of the accountants I know and interact with are nice caring people and I like them. However there is one area where I believe they are being shortsighted and neglectful.

Hawkins Ash CPAs acquires Thomas Cummings; and Pease& Associates merges in Levin Swedler Kennedy.

Eide Bailly LLP, a Top 100 Firm, is expanding in Denver by adding Heider, Tanner & Dirks, Inc, effective Jan. 15.

Brown Edwards is set to merge in Gibbons & Kawash; Sax Wealth Advisors acquires GM Financial Group; Freed and Dardeno combine; and FF&F adds CPI.

CliftonLarsonAllen LLP, a Top 100 Firm, is adding NSBN LLP, a Regional Leader, effective Jan. 1, 2018, expanding CLA’s presence in Los Angeles.

Barfield, Murphy, Shank & Smith has expanded in Alabama by merging in Hindsman PC, a Gadsden-based CPA firm, effective Jan. 1, 2018.

Firms combine forces in Wisconsin and Florida.

The T100 Firm has added Kakimoto & Nagashima, giving it a 10th California office.