Rothstein Kass – Certified Public Accountants, a top 25 ranked international accounting and consulting firm, has acquired the assets of San Francisco-based Stadtler, Rosenblum & Saris (SRS), a medium-sized accounting and consulting firm. Effective July 1, SRS’ clients are being serviced by Rothstein Kass & Company, LLP.“We diligently searched for the ideal accounting firm to join and Rothstein Kass provides the best opportunities for us to substantially broaden our service offerings,” Sander Stadtler, SRS Managing Principal, explained in a prepared statement.

BKD LLP, the 12th largest accounting firm in the U.S., with total revenue of $258 million, according to Accounting Today, announced Wednesday that it had acquired Lisle Compton Cole & Almen LLP in Oklahoma City and Gaither Rutherford & Co. LLP in Evansville, Ohio. The two acquisitions will bring $10 million in additional revenue to the firm. Earlier this month, BKD acquired Grant Thornton LLP’s Colorado Springs Office, the Wichita Business Journal reported.

The Crowe Group LLP has launched the Crowe Foundation which will provide grants to nonprofit organizations while also creating opportunities for Crowe personnel to develop leadership skills in the communities where they live, work and volunteer.

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It should be a bullish new year for accounting. Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) by firms will increase, as will as the prices those deals command, and the salaries of partners and staff alike, according to a panel of the profession’s highest-profile practice management consultants. Members of the Advisory Board consortium of consultancies, at their annual Winning is Everything client conference in Las Vegas, unanimously agreed that a broad array of changes – most for the positive- will occur within the industry.At the top of the list is increased M&A activity.

One of the accounting profession’s biggest annual events dedicated to tips and trends in the successful management of firms—the Advisory Board’s “Winning Is Everything” conference – is scheduled for January 11-12 at Las Vegas’s newest casino, Wynn Las Vegas.

Weaver & Tidwell, which bills itself as the Southwest’s largest independent accounting firm, is getting a bit larger. Last week the firm announced it is merging with Brehm & Co., whose six certified public accountants and other staff will relocate to Weaver & Tidwell’s offices in Dallas.Accounting Today reports that Weaver & Tidwell was the 105th largest accounting firm in the country in 2004.

Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu International has announced a merger with one of China's largest accounting firms, and said it hopes to employ 8,000 people in China by the end of the year.The rapid growth of China's economy - at more than 9 percent each year - and the desire of Chinese companies to expand globally is creating huge potential for Deloitte, Peter Bowie, Deloitte China's chief executive, told Dow Jones Newswires.Deloitte has quadrupled its presence in China over the last two and a half years, and plans to invest $150 million in China during the next few years.

Michigan-based Plante & Moran is merging with the Flint and Ann Arbor-based accounting and consulting firm BKR Dupuis & Ryden. The merger will be effective July 1, 2005, and the combined firms will operate as Plante & Moran, PLLC. The addition of BKR Dupuis & Ryden's 60 staff, seven partners, and $7.5 million in annual revenue will give Plante & Moran a total of 1,450 staff, 204 partners, and annual revenues of $210 million.