The software giant behind TurboTax is buying out a potential competitor in the tax prep market.

Intuit Inc. is close to buying Credit Karma Inc. for about $7 billion in cash and stock deal, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter it didn’t identify.

The Columbus, Ohio-based firm has expanded to Toledo.

The exit of David Knoch is the latest change at the growing and rapidly pivoting tax-focused IBD formerly known as HD Vest.

Rea & Associates merges in WJ Ubbing and Associates; Frank Hirth transitions its U.S. practice to Raich Ende Malter; and REDW adds Human Resources Experience.

CliftonLarsonAllen added Weil & Company, and Cherry Bekaert LLP expanded its digital advisory capabilities by buying Icimo LLC.

Eide Bailly, a Top 25 Firm based in Fargo, North Dakota, has added Platinum Consulting Group, a government and nonprofit consulting firm based in Fullerton, California, effective Feb. 3.

Nichols, Cauley & Associates LLC, a firm in Dalton, Georgia, has added the Morehouse Group, a firm based in the same city, expanding Nichols Cauley’s presence in North Georgia.

The Top 100 Firm has expanded its presence in New York by adding three downstate offices from another firm.

The Georgia-based accounting firm is expanding into the technology industry by acquiring an IT services firm in the Atlanta suburb of Marietta.

Carr, Riggs & Ingram has merged in Crabtree, Rowe & Berger; and EisnerAmper has added Horvath & Giacin.

The last several years have seen a “merger frenzy,” with small and midsize CPA firms (with annual revenues between $10 million and $24 million) getting acquired by larger CPA firms that have a strong brand and a track record of average to above average equity partner profitability.

Built Technologies, a provider of construction finance software, has acquired lienwaivers.io, a developer of lien waiver management and payment technology for commercial and residential construction.

Yount, Hyde and Barbour, a firm in Winchester, Virginia, is acquiring Woodcock & Associates, PC in Fredericksburg, Virginia, bolstering YHB’s construction industry expertise.

UHY Advisors and UHY LLP merged in Pattison, Koskey, Howe and Bucci, CPAs; MBAF expanded its tax and accounting practice by adding Kramer & Associates; and Fiondella, Milone & LaSaracina merged in Viola Chrabascz Reynolds and Formica & Dobkin.

The firm has continued its recent expansion streak in Southern California, snapping up its third firm in the Los Angeles area in recent months.

Windes merges in Smith, Linden & Basso; UHY Advisors acquires Stewart, Beauvais & Whipple; TYS merges with Lefkowitz; and McGuire Sponsel acquires Align Global Consulting.

The Avantax Wealth Management parent views HK Financial as another way of working with CPAs and tax professionals branching into the field.

PKF O’Connor Davies adds DHL&S; LBMC Technology Solutions merges with InterDyn Artis; Finkler joins HW&Co.; Gilliam Coble & Moser merges with Apple, Bell, Johnson & Co.; and Blucora plans acquisition of HK Financial Services.

BDO adds Biegel Waller; Brown Edwards expands in Virginia; Prager Metis combines with Shine & Company; Hoffman Eells merges with Abbott, Frenyea & Russell; and Mariner Wealth Advisors acquires the tax practices of David G. Miller & Associates and G.M. Bremer & Associates.