MHM changes name to CBIZ CPAs

Mayer Hoffman McCann P.C. announced today it is changing its name to CBIZ CPAs P.C., effective immediately. 

The Kansas City, Missouri-based firm has 35 offices nationwide and provides audit, review and attest services. Since the late 1990s, it has worked closely with CBIZ, a Top 25 firm based in Cleveland, to provide audit and assurance services as a separate legal entity. Clients will see no change in service. 

"While MHM remains a strong brand, this change will better align CBIZ CPAs' attest practice with CBIZ's non-attest practice, reduce confusion in the marketplace and present our collective clients with a clearer statement of who we are as well as the depth of services and breadth of expertise we offer," president of CBIZ CPAS Andrew Gragnani said in a statement. 

CBIZ is a publicly traded company (NYSE: CBZ) — one of the first films to implement an alternative practice structure — and now has more than 120 offices nationwide and 7,000 employees. It has a strong history of consolidating accounting firms, completing over 120 acquisitions since 2008.

This July, it announced a $2.5 billion megadeal to acquire Marcum, another Top 25 firm, making the combined firm what is projected to be the seventh-largest firm in the U.S. In March, CBIZ acquired CompuData, a Philadelphia-based accounting solutions provider that specializes in software for small and midsize organizations. In February, it acquired Erickson, Brown & Kloster LLC in Colorado Springs, Colorado, while then-MHM acquired the attest assets. In February of last year, CBIZ acquired the non-attest assets of Top 100 Firm Somerset CPAs and Advisors, an Indianapolis-based firm, while MHM acquired the attest assets.