People: At the 2019 AICPA Forensic and Valuation Services Conference in Las Vegas, William Fellows, CPA, ABV, a partner in Deloitte Risk and Financial Advisory, was named 2019 Business Valuation Volunteer of the Year and Elizabeth Woodward, CPA, CFF, director of forensic accounting and litigation support with Dean Dorton Allen Ford PLLC, was named 2019 Forensic & Litigation Services (FLS) Volunteer of the Year … Lori A. Roth, CPA/ABV, CFF, has been named national managing partner at New York City-based Prager Metis CPAs; she has expertise in audit and assurance services, litigation support, and business valuations.

Firms: Construction industry specialist firm Forehand & Associates of Orlando, Fla., has joined CliftonLarsonAllen LLP (CLA) … C&D CPAs and Advisors (Solvang, Calif.) has joined the North America region of PrimeGlobal, an international association of independent accounting firms … Speer & Associates Ltd. of Dallas joined Fort Worth, Texas-based Whitley Penn on November 1; the group will work out of the firm’s Plano, Texas, location … New York City-based Marcum LLP merged with CPA Consulting Group of Nashville, Tenn., effective November 1; the firm adds two partners and 15 associates to Marcum’s Nashville office … Rochester, N.Y.-based EFPR Group is merging in the accounting practice of Nowicki & Co. of West Seneca, N.Y., into its Williamsville, N.Y., office … The partners and associates of Klein Hall of Aurora, Ill., joined Milwaukee-based Wipfli on November 1; this adds 25 Klein Hall employees, including five partners, to Wipfli’s presence in the Chicago area.

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