People: Tommye Barie, partner with Mauldin & Jenkins LLC, is the new chair of the board of directors of the AICPA … Kerry Buchan joins Windham Brannon as principal in the firm’s Atlanta office … Tamir Dardashtian was promoted to principal and Christopher Noble and Yair Holtzman were added to the partnership of Anchin, Block & Anchin LLP in New York City … Rebecca Fuller joins American Appraisal’s UK team as head of business development and marketing … Nicholas Harrison joins the Richmond, Va., office of Dixon Hughes Goodman LLP as partner to lead the Virginia tax advisory services practice group … Duff & Phelps adds three managing directors: Richard Newby and Shiv Mahalingham in the London office and Christopher Newman in the Silicon Valley, Calif., office … Leigh Ann Schultz was named managing director at MorganFranklin Consulting in Washington, D.C. … Colleen Vallen, partner at the Philadelphia office of Citrin Cooperman, received The Philadelphia Business Journal's "2014 Women of Distinction" award.

Firms: The American Society of Appraisers (ASA) has formed a training partnership in aviation valuation with two of the top aviation and aerospace educators, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and Jet Support Services Inc. (JSSI) … The western New York-based firms, Bonadio Group and Bevilacqua & Co., will merge on November 1 and increase staff to about 500 employees … Carr, Riggs & Ingram LLC has merged with the Alabama firm Boohaker, Schillaci & Co. and will retain current personnel and partners and operate under the Carr, Riggs & Ingram name … The Hancock Firm is now in the Texas Lawyers Hall of Fame after being voted the No. 1 litigation valuation provider in Houston for the past five years … New York City-based O’Connor Davies LLP will merge with nearby Purchase, N.Y., firm Perl & Asch CPAs, P.C. on January 1 … The International Society of Business Appraisers (ISBA) awards its “Gold Seal of Trust in Business Valuation” to the Minneapolis firm of Shenehon Co.