Accounting firms Wipfli and Eide Bailly have called off plans for a merger.

EisnerAmper is merging in Harb, Levy & Weiland, expanding the New York-based firm’s presence to California, Illinois and India.

Recently merged accounting firm CliftonLarsonAllen has decided to stay in the Nexia International network, where LarsonAllen has been a member.

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Open-source accounting and enterprise resource planning software developer Open Systems Inc. has acquired its longtime reseller InterMicro, effectively retaining all of its staff and two offices in Greenville, S.C., and Edmond, Okla.

Burr Pilger Mayer and Windes & McClaughry have canceled their plans for a merger, saying Friday they could not come to an agreement on the terms.

Accounting and business consulting firm Hill, Barth & King, has acquired Carson & Co. LLC, CPAs, of Sewickley, Pa., expanding the firm’s presence in Pennsylvania and construction industry clientele.

PMB Helin Donovan has merged in Vink Teague & Associates, expanding the Austin, Texas-based firm’s presence in Dallas.

KPMG has acquired the U.S. assets of Thomson Reuters’ ONESOURCE Indirect Tax Managed Services business.

Marcum LLP has expanded its New England practice by merging Connecticut accounting, tax and consulting firm Konowitz, Kahn & Company into its offices.

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On a Friday morning in early December, some 150 accountants and staff boarded a Manhattan-bound R train. It's doubtful any of their fellow commuters guessed they were all from the CPA firm of WithumSmith+Brown.

A pair of Massachusetts accounting firms, Walter & Shuffain, P.C., and Cooper & Company, P.C., have merged, effective January 1.

Sage North America partner SWK Technologies Inc. has acquired the Sage accounts of Southern California-based Sage MAS 90, 200 and 500 reseller IncorTech, effectively adding nearly 150 clients and increasing its West Coast presence.

Gray, Gray & Gray LLP of Westwood, Mass., has merged in O’Toole & Company of Boston, effective Jan. 1.

Bank of America has begun offering financing to CPA firms to help them fund mergers and acquisitions, expand their facilities, buy equipment and software, and other purposes.

Southern accounting firm Carr, Riggs & Ingram LLC has expanded its footprint in Southern Georgia by merging in the local firm BowenPhillips LLP.

The Burdette Smith Group, P.C., a firm based in Fairfax, Va., has merged with a Tysons Corner, Va.-based firm, Bish and Haffey, P.C., to form Burdette Smith & Bish LLC.

The ability to recognize and address lifecycle issues such as succession and compensation, as well as seize opportunities like mergers, are critical for helping spearhead current and future growth, according to a trio of major firm CEOs.

With the tsunami of CPA firm mergers over the past several years and with more unions projected for 2012 and beyond, a trio of managing partners whose firms have been in “buyer mode” gave attendees at the Winning Is Everything confab here a laundry list of hurdles and issues that firms must address in order for combinations to be successful such as communication, integration and compensation.