People: The governing council of the AICPA has elected Tracey Golden, CPA, CGMA, as the organization’s new chairperson; Golden, an audit partner at Deloitte, succeeds outgoing chair Bill Reeb, in the volunteer post, having served for the past year as vice chair; Bill Pirolli, CPA, CFF, PFS, CGMA, a partner with DeSanto, Priest & Co., was voted in as vice chair … Chris Dalton, CPA, has been named the new managing partner of BKD CPAs & Advisors’ Transaction Advisory Services (TAS) division … Mark Koziel is the new president and CEO of Allinial Global, an association of independent accounting and consulting firms; he will take over the role August 1 after finishing his tenure as executive vice president of firm services at the AICPA.

Firms: Southfield, Mich.-based Clayton & McKervey has three new service offerings related to loan forgiveness compliance and consulting with the Paycheck Protection Program: loan tracking, a forgiveness calculator, and forgiveness review … Alvarez & Marsal has opened its first office in Oslo, Norway, augmenting the firm’s presence in the Nordics … Saginaw, Mich.-based Yeo & Yeo PC and BFBA (Sacramento, Calif.) have joined PrimeGlobal, an international association of independent accounting firms … Springfield, Mo.-based BKD has moved its BKD Big Data & Analytics from a team within the firm’s Forensics & Valuation Services division to become its own national practice unit rebranded as BKD Analytics … Calgary, Alberta-based MNP has acquired applied data services company T4G, which operates four offices across Canada; the acquisition is designed to strengthen the firm’s digital transformation services.

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