Beard Miller Company LLP (BMC), a leading Mid Atlantic certified public accounting firm, is pleased to announce that effective immediately Richard A. Purcell has been named the firm's Tax Department Managing Partner. Purcell also serves as the firm's Reading Office Managing Partner.As Tax Department Managing Partner, Purcell will be responsible for management of the department in the firm's fourteen offices across four states.

Beard Miller Company LLP (BMC), a leading Mid Atlantic certified public accounting firm, is pleased to announce the election of firm partners Keith M. Cenekofsky and W. Robert Berkebile to the firm's Governing Board, effective January 1, 2008. Cenekofsky is a partner in BMC's Audit and Accounting Services group and is based in BMC's Lancaster location, and Berkebile is a partner in BMC's Small Business Services group, and is based in BMC's York office.

Beard Miller Company LLP (BMC), a nationally ranked U.S. Top 40 regional accounting and consulting firm, has admitted Michael J.Gallagher and Keith R. Bachman as partners in the firm's Allentown Office, effective January 1, 2008. Gallagher and Bachman, who previously practiced with Gallagher, Gneiding & Company, LLP in Allentown, will bring their clients to BMC. "The combination with Mike Gallagher and Keith Bachman is a logical compliment to our Lehigh Valley practice," said Lamar Stoltzfus, Chairman and CEO of BMC.