Accounting Industry & Firm Growth

CBIZ sells to New Mountain-backed Grant Thornton after activist pressure.

Reference Equity says the top-10 firm should suspend stock buybacks.

Add Crowe and Eide Bailly to the list of accounting firms that have embraced PE investments.

Firms once led by decades-long partnerships may change hands every three to seven years. What does that mean for the industry?

Avani Desai explains how Schellman’s second PE investment, from Goldman Sachs Alternatives, will help the firm scale.

The audit and advisory firm is spending heavily in tech and AI, but also building a pipeline of future partners.

IFAC research finds the pace of PE-backed rollups “has increased four-fold since 2021.”