New Jersey accounting firm Cowan, Gunteski & Co., is merging in Woolston, Koerner & Co., building their combined presence in the Garden State.

Friedman LLP plans to combine with Bagell, Josephs, Levine & Co., as of Jan. 1, building the New York-based firm’s presence in New Jersey.

South Florida accounting firms Daszkal Bolton and Chaves & Armstrong are combining to build a larger multinational tax and SEC accounting practice.

Web-based software developer Intacct is offering customers of Canton, Mass-based revenue and billing software provider Softrax Corp. six months of free service of its cloud financial applications.

Enterprise software provider AFS Technologies has announced a cash acquisition of certain assets of Canton, Mass.-based revenue management and billing solutions provider Softrax Corp.

IMGCAP(1)]David Sibits has been seeing a lot of changes at CBIZ in the past year as the firm copes with the economy and manages its acquisitions of Tofias and Mahoney Cohen.

Baker Tilly Virchow Krause plans to merge with Beers + Cutler to create the 13th largest accounting firm in the U.S., with over $250 million in revenue.

Moore Stephens Wurth Frazer and Torbet LLP plans to merge with Frost PLLC at the beginning of next year.

In a move designed to bolster its global transaction tax offerings, Thomson Reuters Tax & Accounting has agreed to acquire San Ramon, Calif.-based Sabrix, a provider of tax transaction software, for an undisclosed amount.

CHINA

Pennsylvania CPA firms Zinman & Co. and Titcher, Kritzstein & Co. have combined forces.

Accounting firm WebsterRogers LLP has signed a deal to combine its Mergers & Acquisitions Group with Sequence Investment Partners, a licensed broker-dealer.

Sikich LLP has entered into a merger agreement with the accounting, tax, business consulting, litigation support and business valuation practice of Sleeper Disbrow Morrison Tarro & Lively LLC in Decatur, Ill.

Two Florida accounting firms — Proctor, Crook & Crowder and Fogal & Associates — have merged to form one of the largest firms on the state’s Treasure Coast.

Two Minneapolis-area CPA firms, Carver Moquist & O’Connor and TK Advisors Ltd., have merged to form a larger advisory firm to service the Twin Cities.

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PARENTEBEARD DEBUTS

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Arkansas accounting firms Frost PLLC and Ervin & Co. plan to combine forces.