FIRMS
CALIFORNIA
Armanino McKenna LLP, San Ramon, has
been named to Microsoft’s 2010 President’s
Club.
FLORIDA
Cross, Fernandez & Riley LLP has been
named one of Florida’s Best Companies to
Work For by Florida Trend and Best Companies Group, ranking No. 7 in the Best Midsized Companies Category.
GEORGIA
UHY Advisors, Atlanta, has launched Management Consulting, a new practice o;ering
for improving a company’s ;nancial and operational functions.
2008 and 2009, and 7 percent between 2007
and 2008, through its Living Green program.
;e U.S. ;rm has reduced its electricity consumption by 9 percent and reduced paper
consumption by 33 percent, and increased
the percentage of recycled paper used by 85
percent. ... ;e Fuoco Group, New York and
North Palm Beach, Fla., was named Firm of
the Year by Enterprise Worldwide. ...
Mar-golin, Winer & Evens, Garden City, received
a 2010 Alfred P. Sloan Award for Business Excellence in Workplace Flexibility in the Long
Island area through the National Association
of Mothers’ Centers, the Families and Work
Institute, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s
Institute for a Competitive Workforce and the
Twiga Foundation.
FIRMS
GERMANY
Scholz KG (part of the Menschen. Ideen. Za-hen. Group) has joined Enterprise Worldwide.
NORTH CAROLINA
Cherry, Bekaert & Holland LLP hosted the
2010 North Carolina Government Seminar in
Greensboro in early August.
INDIA
M.V. Damania & Co., Mumbai and Pune, has
joined Enterprise Worldwide. It has four
partners and more than 50 sta;.
MICHIGAN
;rough its 2009-2010 P&M Cares initiative,
sta; from Plante & Moran PLLC, South;eld,
Mich., donated more than 5,000 lbs. of food,
raised over $25,000, and ;lled almost 5,000
backpacks with food for Feeding America’s
BackPack, a domestic hunger-relief charity
that provides backpacks ;lled with food that
children in need can take home on weekends. For 2010-2011, P&M Cares will support
the National Coalition Against Domestic
Violence.
TENNESSEE
Lattimore Black Morgan & Cain PC, Nashville, has launched a capital structure advisory services practice in partnership with
CapControls. The Software-as-a-Service
CapControls platform delivers analytical insight and in-depth organization for the ownership structures of companies, while LBMC
adds value with its professional expertise and
implementation capabilities.
TEXAS
CF & Co. LLP, Dallas, has relocated to the
third ;oor of the Northpark Central Building.
FLORIDA
Kirkland, Russ, Murphy & Tapp PA
On a Friday in late July, Clearwater-based
Kirkland, Russ, Murphy & Tapp PA closed its
o;ce for its annual Community Service Day.
Among other things, sta; members cleaned,
painted, shoveled, pulled weeds, sorted do-
nations, prepped food, procured furniture
and PCs for a computer lab at a local YMCA
branch, and picked up litter at a rest area/
fishing pier. All told, staff served approxi-
mately 250 hours at 12 di;erent organizations
throughout the Tampa Bay area.
MISSOURI
The St. Louis technology office of Sikich
LLP has moved to join the tax, consulting,
accounting and auditing practice at 12655
Olive Blvd., Suite 200.
VIRGINIA
Argy, Wiltse & Robinson PC, McLean, announced that Johnson Advisors LLC has
changed its name to Argy Accounting Solutions LLC, while Argy’s Family Wealth
Management Group has changed its name
to Family Tax Advisory Group.
NEW YORK
KPMG LLP announced that it achieved a
26 percent reduction in its carbon footprint
from 2007 through 2009, exceeding its stated
three-year commitment of a 25 percent reduction in just two years. A recent analysis by
KPMG’s Climate Change and Sustainability
Services Group showed that the ;rm reduced
its carbon footprint by 20 percent between
WASHINGTON, D.C.
The Association for Accounting Market-
ing announced the winners of its Market-
ing Achievement Awards during its annual
conference here. Two awards, one for ;rms
under $15 million in revenue, and one for
;rms over $15 million, were given in most
of the following categories: Logo Design
— Mueller Prost PC and Weaver; Corpo-
rate Identity — Johnson, Price & Sprinkle
and Macias Gini & O’Connell LLP; Bro-
chure/Printed Collateral — Johnson, Price
& Sprinkle and Dixon Hughes PLLC; Print
Newsletters — Cerini and Associates LLP
and Wipfli LLP; Electronic Newsletters
— Gi;ord, Hillegass & Ingwersen LLP and
BKD LLP; Public Relations — Templeton &
Co. LLP and Freed Maxick & Battaglia CPAs
PC; Survey/Research — Barnes, Dennig &
Co. Ltd. and Rea & Associates Inc.; Internal
Firm Programs — Smith Elliott Kearns & Co.
LLC and Rea & Associates; Web Site Design
— Larson Gross PLLC and Dixon Hughes;
Multi-Media — Dixon Hughes; Celebratory
Greeting Card — Schechter Dokken Kanter
and Dixon Hughes; Recruiting Campaign —
Alloy, Silverstein, Shapiro, Adams, Mulford,
Cicalese, Wilson & Co. and Postlethwaite &
Netterville; Sales Presentations/Proposals
— Rea & Associates; Niche-Building Cam-
paign — Gi;ord, Hillegass & Ing wersen and
Rea & Associates; Event Marketing, Trade
Shows and Seminars — Henderson Hutch-
erson & McCullough PLLC with Southside
Creative Group, and Gainer Donnelly &
Desroches LLP; Single Mailing — Barnes
Wendling CPAs Inc. and Grant Thornton
LLP; Campaign Mailing — Wipfli; Single
Print — Gi;ord, Hillegass & Ingwersen and
Citrin Cooperman & Co. LLP; Series Print
— Larson Gross and Kennedy and Coe LLC;
and Non-Print — Gi;ord, Hillegass & Ing-
wersen and Wip;i.
