Exencial Wealth Advisors, a wealth management firm based in Plano, Texas, has acquired San Antonio, Texas-based Netting & Pace, CPAs, an accounting and wealth management firm.

Anton & Chia, LLP and Anton, Bryson & Schindler Chartered Professional Accountants LLP have completed a tiered acquisition of McCormack, Su & Company in the U.S. and Canada in an effort to grow their Asia practice.

Accounting and consulting firm Rosen, Sapperstein & Friedlander, LLC has acquired SHR Associates, Inc., a regional health care consulting firm based in Annapolis, Md.

Grant Thornton LLP has acquired most of the assets of Arryve LLC, a business consulting firm based in Bellevue, Wash.

Kabat Schertzer merges in Stuart Sotta & Co.; and Bell & Frech merges with Jerome O. Jacobs & Associates.

Business software giant SAP has been going beyond its traditional enterprise resource planning specialty to expand into areas such as supply chain management, travel and expense management, and the Internet of Things.

Mergers and acquisitions are prompting companies to take risky accounting maneuvers, warns a new report from Deloitte.

Carr, Riggs & Ingram is expanding its presence in Southeast Texas by merging in McGee, Miller & Co. in Conroe.

Prager Metis CPAs has expanded its presence on Long Island by merging in Mayer CPAs.

In 2015, by some accounts there were just over 100 CPA firm mergers and acquisitions—a large number of which were consummated by the 2015 Accounting Today Top 100 Firms.

Bowers & Company CPAs has merged in Caswell & Associates, expanding the firm’s presence in upstate New York.

Deloitte has acquired the San Francisco advertising agency Heat to build up its Deloitte Digital consulting practice.

O’Connor Davies Administration, a subsidiary of New York-based accounting and consulting firm O’Connor Davies LLP, has merged with VBK+CO, a global administration firm headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland.

SS&C merges in Southett & Co.; and Regier Carr & Monroe merges with Cross and Robinson.

DSD Systems has acquired the Sage 100 Extended Solutions library of business technology solutions and services provider SWK Technologies.

Accounting firm MBAF has merged in Rampell & Rampell, P.A., a firm based in Palm Beach, Fla., expanding MBAF’s presence in South Florida and adding more expertise in various specialties.

Morison International and KS International have merged to form a $1 billion international association of accounting and professional services firms to be known as Morison KSi.

Rucci Bardaro & Falzone acquires Jensen Malley & Company; and Jarrard, Nowell & Russell merges in Biddlecomb Game & Wise.

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