People: Keith Gordon has joined Boyer & Ritter of Carlisle, Pa., as a business valuation manager … Todd Harrington has been named managing partner of Lancaster, Pa.-based Trout Ebersole & Groff … Wes Nichols has joined Valuation Research Corporation as vice president in the firm’s Chicago office … Joshua Schroeder, a manager at Bauman Associates in Eau Claire, Wis., earned the CVA designation.

Firms: Charlotte, N.C.-based firms BGW CPA and Hawkins Conrad & Co. have combined and will continue in the Carolinas under the BGW name … Brixey & Meyer has acquired Cincinnati firm Kamphaus, Henning and Hood, whose employees will join B&M’s existing Cincinnati offices … Canfield, Ohio-based HBK has signed a merger agreement with Resnick, Amsterdam, Leshner of Blue Bell, Pa. … Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.-based The Griggs Group has changed its name to Pivot CPAs … Prager Metis is merging with Long Island, N.Y.-based Cohen Greve & Co., effective January 1 … Weyrich, Cronin & Sorra, of Lutherville, Md., was named a “2016 Top Workplace” by The Baltimore Sun and WorkplaceDynamics LLC … Wipfli announced it is merging in Milwaukee-based firm Benes & Krueger, effective December 8.

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