CLA merges in Concannon Miller

ClitfonLarsonAllen, a High 10 Agency, is rising its presence in Pennsylvania and Florida by including Concannon Miller, a tax, accounting and consulting agency primarily based in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, efficient Nov. 1.

The deal will enhance CLA’s Pennsylvania group to greater than 330 individuals and its Florida group to over 450 individuals. Concannon Miller has shoppers in several industries, together with McDonald’s franchisees and nonprofits. 

Monetary phrases of the deal weren’t disclosed. CLA ranked No. eight on Accounting Right now’s 2022 record of the High 100 Companies, with over $1.four billion in annual income.

CLA’s Irvine workplace

“Progress for CLA is about enhancing our skill to create alternatives for our shoppers, our individuals, and our communities,” stated CLA chief geographic officer Scott Engelbrecht in an announcement Friday. “We’re all the time looking for methods to assist — whether or not private, monetary, or enterprise. Welcoming the Concannon Miller group members helps our promise to know and assist these round us.”

CLA has greater than 7,500 individuals working in 121 areas within the U.S. The over 130 former Concannon Miller group members who are actually becoming a member of CLA will proceed to serve shoppers from areas in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and St. Petersburg, Florida. Concannon Miller was included in 1962, however its roots date again to the 1920s. 

“We take our shoppers’ must coronary heart and commit to totally understanding their enterprise and their objectives, each skilled and private,” stated Concannon Miller president and COO Ted Witman in an announcement. “CLA shares this promise, which is a key motive behind our choice to affix the agency.”

Koltin Consulting Group CEO Allan D. Koltin suggested each companies on the mixture. “CLA continues on its magical journey of including deep and specialised expertise to the agency,” he stated in an announcement. “What’s notable listed below are two distinct qualities Concannon Miller group members convey to the desk — expertise at one of many preeminent accounting and tax companies in Lehigh Valley and likewise ‘well-known’ nationally in serving McDonald’s franchisees.”

In June, CLA expanded in Nashville, Tennessee, by including Worth CPAs. It did a variety of offers in 2020, together with Blumshapiro in Connecticut, Atkinson & Co. in New Mexico, White Nelson Diehl Evans and Weil & Co. in Southern California, and McHale, Caruso, Scullion & Knox in Florida.