Practice management

Previously co-managing partner of the Top 100 Firm, Lori Roth will now serve as CEO.

Mauldin & Jenkins merged in the Prinzo Group; and Schell & Hogan joined Symphona.

Wolf & Co., a Top 75 Firm based in Boston, has acquired the Kafafian Group, a bank consulting firm in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

The PE-backed accounting platform has added Tyler, Texas-based Gollob Morgan Peddy, further expanding its footprint in the Southwest.

Going from a financial professional working for someone else to a business owner running your own firm requires shifting your way of thinking.

The Top 25 Firm has acquired a Regional Leader headquartered in Minneapolis, effective Jan. 1, 2026.

The deadline for submissions to Accounting Today's 2026 Top New Products list is end-of-day Friday.

We've heard it many times over the last few years: machines will not—cannot—replace human accountants. Today's technology is not sufficient to create the apocalypse scenario many dread, but what about tomorrow's?

Nichols Cauley is creating a new platform through a PE-backed merger with Partners Risk Services and JGH Consulting, with former Baker Tilly chief Alan Whitman as CEO.

The Top 50 Firm has expanded into South Carolina with its latest M&A deal.

The Top 25 Firm based in New York has merged in Bowman & Company, with three offices in New Jersey and a specialty in municipal and governmental accounting.

Top 50 Firm Whitley Penn acquired Toombs, Hall & Foster, based in Addison, Texas, effective Jan. 1.

The rise of AI has led to firms spending less on people and more on tech, a trend that our AI experts believe is likely to continue into 2026, according to answers to our annual AI Thought Leaders survey.

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RRBB, a Regional Leader based in Somerset, New Jersey, has added Kleespies, Horwitz & Associates, based in Clark, New Jersey, and introduced Superior Payroll.

Rehmann CEO Stacie Kwaiser is planning for the New Year as the Top 50 Firm deals with the many changes from the past year.

Less than 5% of people in accounting will ever become partners; why is it touted as one of the profession's key rewards?

Those with AI skills are said to make more, but how much more? Also, how have our actual experts been using AI in their own lives? We find out in this second part of our look at the AI Thought Leaders Survey.