BAASS Business Solutions and Axis Global Partners have merged, creating what will likely be an $18 million firm and the largest Sage reseller deal this year.

Marcum LLP has merged in Cornerstone Accounting Group, an accounting and assurance firm that focuses on the real estate industry.

Tax season 2013 is over and the M&A frenzy will pick back up again where it left off. So, what is your practice worth?

Wastvedt & Co. has acquired the San Diego-based accounting firm, Advantage Tax and Accounting Services. Deal terms were undisclosed.

The Tax & Accounting business of Thomson Reuters has acquired select assets of the TaxWorks software line from RedGear Technologies, the customers of which will be transitioned to UltraTax CS—part of the CS Professional Suite.

Accounting firm REDW, one of the Top 10 Regional Leaders in the Southwest, has joined forces with Phoenix-based RCG Plan Administration LLC, a third-party administrator and record-keeper for small and midsized business and native American retirement plans.

A roundup of accounting firm mergers from the previous month

During the recent Microsoft Convergence 2013 user and partner event we caught up with Jim Bowman, president and chief executive of SBS Group and inquired about their status as a top reseller, Master VAR and the state of the reseller partner profession in general.

Decosimo has acquired the Huntsville, Ala.-based cost accounting and federal compliance solutions group Solvability.

Microsoft Dynamics Master VAR Tribridge took the opportunity during the Convergence 2013 user and partner event to announce the addition of two new affiliates to its network, CBR Technology and MIC Business Solutions.

Tax software developer Greatland Corporation has outlined a plan to further accelerate growth through strategic acquisitions during 2013.

The American Institute of CPAs’ Private Companies Practice Section released the results of its 2012 PCPS Succession Survey not long ago, and it provides us with data from nearly 1,000 firms across the U.S. on how they are dealing (or not) with succession.

DiBenedetto & Company PA combines its practice with the Hampstead, N.H.-based Olbricht Storniolo Group LLC, CPA’s and Business Advisors.

KPMG LLP tallied the numbers from a recent survey and found that M&A, private equity and tax professionals focused on the technology, financial services and health care sectors, expect to see a rise in deal activity among their clients in 2013.

Johnstone, Graydon & Thompson CPA’s PA of Greenville, S.C., and Scott and Co. LLC of Columbia, have announced their plans to merge.

Susan Tulis has merged her Alamo, Calif.-based CPA practice into Sweeney Kovar LLP.

Accounting firm mergers and acquisitions from the previous month

IMGCAP(1)]I think I can help set the announced sale of ACT!, SalesLogix and NonProfit products in perspective to the noncore businesses at Sage.

This past week certainly had its share of vendor news, from executive hires to new or updated offerings, but none was more noteworthy than the Sage North America sell-off of three members of its product line

KPMG has signed an agreement to acquire the Hackett Group’s Oracle enterprise resource planning practice from the strategic advisory and business transformation consulting firm.