Barfield, Murphy, Shank & Smith plans to expand its footprint in Alabama by combining with Himmelwright, Huguley & Boles, a CPA firm in the Auburn-Opelika area, on January 1 next year.

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Sensiba San Filippo LLP has acquired The Resultants Inc., a consulting firm that specializes in internal audit and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance for small and midsize business clients.

Rehmann is combining with Sobb Roberts, expanding the Michigan-based accounting firm’s presence in Toledo, Ohio.

Wipfli LLP has merged in the health care consulting firm HFS Consultants, including HFS’s marketing division, the Placemaking Group, effective August 1.

BDO USA LLP has added Goldstein Schechter Koch, expanding the firm’s presence in South Florida in the latest of a string of mergers across the country.

SingerLewak LLP has expanded into the Inland Empire area of California by merging in Ahern Adcock Devlin LLP, an accounting, tax and consulting firm based in Riverside.

Lipschultz, Levin & Gray LLC has added Richard E. Winer P.C., bolstering the firm’s presence in the Chicago area.

WithumSmith+Brown has expanded its presence in New Jersey, adding McGuigan Tombs & Company, a $3 million-plus CPA firm.

Citrin Cooperman has entered the Boston region by merging in Kirkland Albrecht & Fredrickson on Monday.

CliftonLarsonAllen added two more firms Monday: CPWR LLP CPA in Dallas and Bray & Company CPA LLC in Milwaukee.

Oracle Corp., lagging the competition in cloud-based services, is essentially buying market share with its $9.3 billion acquisition of NetSuite Inc.

Oracle Corp. gave its cloud-services strategy a big boost by offering to buy NetSuite Inc. in a deal valued at about $9.3 billion.

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Marks Paneth LLC expanded into the Philadelphia area by merging in MDG LLC, a firm based in Jenkintown, Pa., and in a separate deal this month beefed up its Private Client Group in New York by merging in another firm, Kranz & Company LLP.

BDO USA LLP said Wednesday that it grew its annual revenues for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2016 to $1.29 billion, a 22.9 percent jump from fiscal year 2015, when it reached $1.05 billion.

Top Five Firm RSM US LLP has agreed to acquire Padgett Stratemann, the fourth largest local CPA firm in Texas.

Mazars, an international accounting, auditing and tax firm, has signed a deal to acquire Corality Financial Group, a financial modeling consultancy and training course provider with offices in Sydney, London and New York.

Armanino LLP has started a Corporate Finance practice to advise business clients on mergers and acquisitions, along with sales of intellectual property and patents.

WeiserMazars LLP has merged in Risk Management Group, an internal audit service provider in Ladera Ranch, Calif.