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• Author: Spaniel, Bill
• Position: News&Trends

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Rancho Cucamonga-based Craig B. Miller has been named partner at Bowen, McBeth, Inc. ... Dana Patterson has joined the Los Gatos accounting firm of Offereins, Janda, Roe & McCahan CPAs as a manager ... Jeffrey M. Glick, formerly of Burr, Pilger, & Mayer, has recently formed the firm of Glick & Associates in San Francisco offering tax services ... Tanya Lee Scott recently was promoted to partner of Southern California-based Hutchinson and Bloodgood LLP ... Santos Solano and Alex Ho have been promoted to senior accountants, and Joylynn Ganschow to principal, at Palo Alto-based Brown Adams LLP ... William Steele has been promoted to director of valuation services for Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP in Los Angeles ... Arthur L. Salazar has recently joined Wright Ford Young & Co. as a tax manager in Irvine.

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ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Louis Sclafani, a partner with the tax and financial advisory firm Coldwell, Sclafani & Company LLP in Glendale, recently was awarded the AICPA personal financial specialist credential.

FIRM NEWS

San Francisco-based Bregante + Company LLP recently expanded to three offices. Steven D. Fineran was named managing partner of the firm's new Pleasanton office, which opened in July. The firm's other offices are in San Francisco and Novato ... Burr, Pilger & Mayer LLP in San Francisco has merged with Leibowitz Shumaker Berger & Holsworth LLP.

MEMBERS IN THE NEWS

On Aug. 28 and Oct. 16, Gregg Wind answered listeners' tax questions during the "Money 101" program on KNX-AM in Los Angeles. He also discussed tax resources in the Aug. 30 Los Angeles Times ... In the Sept. 1 Practical Accountant, Corinne Myre discussed paperless accounting, and the publication's "Paperless" supplement spotlighted Sally Aubury and Lewis Sharpstone in an article about enhancing office space ... Karen Goodfriend's comments about stock options were featured in several San Francisco Bay Area newspapers in September ... Charles Best, Joan Bricher, Martin McDermut and Susan Thompson were among the people named by the Sept. 15 Pacific Coast Times who track the area's profits and loses ... Paul Silverglate, Jeffrey Garrison and David Mayer discussed retention strategies for accounting firms on Sept. 22 on the Accountants Media Group's...