| Blue & Co.,
LLC, with seven offices in Indiana, Kentucky and
Ohio, announces the
election of Dale Skaggs to Director. Dale, a Ball
State graduate, joined the
firm in 1993 in the Indianapolis office and moved to
Louisville, Kentucky in 1995
to assist in opening that office. Dale has had a
significant role in the establishment and development
of the Kentucky healthcare
market for the firm as a healthcare accountant and
business advisor.
Beverly
R. Nichols, Director of Bourgeois
Bennett CPAs with
two offices in Louisiana, was named Woman of the
Year by New Orleans CityBusiness.
Honorees were named based on community and professional
achievements.
Also at the firm, the
Houma office, managed by Edward R. Bouterie, was
named the Small Business
of the Year by the Houma-Terrebonne Chamber of Commerce
for its commitment to
the Chamber as well as to the community's
welfare. Daniel J.
Toepfer is the office¹s other Director.
Daszkal
Bolton LLP, with two offices in Florida, announced
that Scott A.
Walters has joined the firm as a Partner in the Audit & Accounting
Services Department in
the Boca Raton office. He is a former Security and
Exchange Commission employee
with broad overseas corporate experience on matters
related to GAAP and SEC rules and regulations.
Two additional
people are now principals. Amy Vetter has joined
the firm as a
Principal in the Strategic Business Solutions Group,
while Prochi Sheth has
been promoted to Principal in the Audit & Accounting
Services Department in
the Boca Raton office. Amy provides clients with
operational accounting
and finance support, implementation, training and
trouble-shooting, outsourced
controllership and fractional CFO services. Prochi
has been with the firm
for seven years and is an integral team member providing
leadership in the Audit
Department.
Thomas
E. Martz, has joined Eckhoff
Accountancy Corporation,
San Rafael, CA, as a Shareholder
as of January 1, 2006.
Koch
Reiss & Company, P.A. (with two offices in Florida)
has moved its Hollywood
office into larger space. The move was completed
in January of this year
and allows the firm to better accommodate the personnel
working in the firm¹s
audit, accounting, tax, litigation support and wealth
management
areas. The new space will also provide for future
growth and expansion.
The new location is at 4000 Hollywood Blvd., Suite
215-South,
Hollywood, FL 33021-6754.
Meaden & Moore,
Ltd.,
with eleven offices in Ohio, Illinois, New York,
Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Arizona and Florida,
announced the hiring of William
A. Harwood as Director of International Tax Services.
Bill has more than 20
years experience in financial analysis, domestic
and international taxation
and public accounting. He held executive positions
and was partner at two
of the largest accounting firms in the US. His international tax-focused
career gives extensive international experience in
virtually every part of the world.
Peter
A. DeMarco, Vice President of Tax, was a featured
author for the first edition
of Case Western Reserve University¹s
The Turning Point newsletter. His subject was end of year tax planning strategies.
Rothstein,
Kass & Company, P.C. (with eight offices
in New York, New Jersey, California,
Texas, Colorado, and Cayman Islands) recently relocated
its corporate headquarters to 4 Becker Farm Road
in Roseland,
NJ. The firm combined
its Roseland offices previously located at 85 Livingston
Avenue and 3 Becker Farm
Road. In addition, the firm's
other locations across the
nation, including its New York office, have also
increased
office space to keep pace
with the demand for its service and expertise.
Mark
Hutchinson has
joined the firm's Beverly
Hills office as a tax
principal. Mark brings 25 years experience, and
is a specialist
in entertainment industry.
He co-authored "Film
Financing and Television
Programming: A Taxation Guide", which describes
the commonly used film
financing
structures along with their commercial and tax implications
for production and distribution
in 28 countries and several states in the US.
Bill
Troup, Managing Partner of Sisterson & Co. LLP,
Pittsburgh, PA, was appointed
to the Ethics Advisory Board of Duquesne University¹s
Beard Center for Leadership
in Ethics. The Beard Center was established as an
international resource for businesses, not-for-profit
organizations, professional
associations and universities interested in promoting
applied business ethics
training programs or ethics education.
Assurance
Services Partner, Brad Lusk, has been elected Treasurer
for Rotary District
7300 for 2005/2006. In addition, Team Sisterson
participated in the
Heart Walk for the American Heart Association
on October
8, 2005 and raised approximately
$1500.
Windham
Brannon, P.C., CPAs, Atlanta, Georgia, added two
new principal members,
Dale R. Baumann and Gregory
M. Spangler. Dale specializes
in personal income tax,
estate tax, and financial planning. He relocated
to the Atlanta area
from San Francisco where he was a partner with
KPMG. He has both an
accounting degree and a law degree from the University
of Florida. Greg is
an Audit Principal and was formerly with BDO Seidman.
He has over 12 years experience serving both private
and publicly traded
businesses in a variety of industries. He is a graduate
of the University of Georgia, earning a degree in Accounting.
The
firm's offices are undergoing an "extreme
makeover" by remodeling and acquiring
more space at its existing location.
Public
Accounting Report lists the Leading SEC Firms for
2005.
Three
AGN-NA firms made the list; Rothstein Kass & Company,
P.C. in 27th place (with
15 SEC registrants), Stegman & Company in 73rd place (with 13 SEC
registrants), and Daszkal Bolton LLP in 82nd place
(with 11 SEC registrants).
In
Memoriam:
Peter Carroll, January 22, 2006
Allen & Miles, LLP
Toronto
James
G. McCulloch, February, 2006
Rolfe Benson, Chartered Accountant
Vancouver, BC
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