Firm Management

BerryDunn, a full-service assurance, tax, and consulting firm headquartered in Portland and serving clients nationwide, announced that Sarah L. Belliveau will be its next CEO and Managing Principal.  Belliveau, who currently leads the firm’s Not-for-Profit Practice, was selected after a rigorous internal process shepherded by an 11-member internal Selection Committee and an outside consultant that began in July 2020.  Belliveau succeeds John Chandler, who has led the firm since 1999. As part of BerryDunn’s succession and […]

In the tax and accounting profession, it’s natural for us to focus on the concrete - the numbers, the client emails and calls, the compliance forms, etc. What may be less natural to some is making soft skills just as important.

We're all pretty accustomed to Googling when we need answers. But is that the best source of information? Where do you go when you have questions? This month we are sharing our favorite reference apps with the CPA Practice Advisor readers.

McKinley joined Rea & Associates as a staff accountant in 1994 and quickly grew through the ranks to become a principal. In addition to managing countless assurance, tax, and consulting engagements, he helped set the course for several of the firm’s ...

Now is the perfect time to make those business transitions you’ve been putting off. Like your spring cleaning, it can feel like a daunting task to make significant changes to your business model. You could say “my clients wouldn’t like a transition” or...

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Top-100 accounting and advisory firm Brown Smith Wallace is joining forces with Armanino LLP, effective August 1, 2021, officials from both firms have announced. The firm will carry the Armanino LLP name and maintain its current St. Louis operations.

Do you see the increasing use of automation, artificial intelligence, and other new technology and wonder what it might mean for your business? The fear of technology is a tale as old as time. Early technophobes thought the printing press would never ...