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ANNOUNCEMENTS

Macias Gini & O'Connell LLP has announced the following promotions: Linda Hurley to director; Eugene Ma to senior manager; Prudence Pugeda, CPA to director; Debbie Chan to senior manager; Angelica Alfaro, Abel Escobar and Patrick Lee to semi-senior accountants; and Yura Kang to senior accountant... David Bullock, CPA and Denise Callahan, MPA have been named partners of Macias Gini & O'Connell LLP ... Robert F. Price, CPA, MST, AEP has been appointed as chair of the 2007 Farm Tax and Accounting Conference by the California CPA Education Foundation ... Ralph W, Haskew, CPA, tax director with Walnut Creek-based Fuhriman van Gemeren Matlin, CPAs, LLP, has been re-elected board president of the California Symphony ... Joseph G. Emanuele, CPA, ABV with Andersen & Company LLP in Santa Rosa, has earned the chartered financial analyst credential ... Arjun McAvoy has been promoted from senior accountant to supervisor in the San Francisco office of Bregante + Company LLP ... Perry-Smith LLP promoted Shayleen O'Connell, CPA to vice president of the valuation and forensic services group; and added Stuart K. Nakanishi, CPA as senior vice president of the same group along with Tim Bryan, CPA ... Sandra L. Durham, CPA was promoted to partner in the Merced office of Kemper CPA Group, LLP ... Grant Thornton LLP has promoted Craig Golding and Alan Herrmann to partner .. RBZ, LLP recently named David Roberts managing partner, Harvey Bookstein visionary partner and Mark Baumohl administrative partner after Thomas J. Schulte completed his tenure as managing partner for the firm ... Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has appointed James Aleru to serve on the California Partnership for the San Joaquin Valley project... David B. Connelly, CPA joined Singer Lewak Greenbaum & Goldstein LLP ... John Costello and Jennifer Ziegler joined Hemming Morse, Inc. as litigation services directors.

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ACCOMPLISHMENTS

JGD & Associates LLP recently won the San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce 2007 Excellence in the Work Environment.

FIRM NEWS

Bianchi, Lorincz, Huey, Hudson & Co. and Kasavan & Pope will combine into a new firm called Bianchi, Kasavan & Pope with offices in Monterey, Salinas, Hollister and Morgan Hill.

MEMBERS IN THE NEWS

Lee Duran discussed the growth of his firm in the July 7 San Diego Union-Tribune ... Dan Thomas commented about housing foreclosures in the July 8 Monterey County Herald... The Press Democrat in Santa Rosa quoted Tom Benton in its July 9 issue about how to keep a family business in the family ... Scott Hofferber discussed the advantages of working in a smaller company in the July 12 issue of Jobs in the Money ... ... Gregg Wind answered tax questions July 24 from listeners of Money 101 on KNX-AM (Los Angeles)... Several articles in the July 23 Orange County Business Journal that discussed the current status of the accounting profession featured comments from Steve Milner, J. Scott Farber, John Poth, John Donovan, Rick Smetanka, Rick Poole, Michael Bertolino, Dean Samsvick, Rick Rayson, Knute Kurtz and Wayne Pinnell ... David Cieslak commented about current information technology trends in the July 23 issue of Accounting Today ... G. Scott Haislet, of Lafayette, answered listener questions about 1031 exchanges and other real estate matters July 28 on San Francisco's KNBR 680 AM ... The July 29 Los Angeles Times interviewed Andy Sale and John Nendick, who are the accountants for the nighttime Emmy Awards, and also talked to Bran Oltmanns, one of the accountants for the Oscars ... The Aug. 5 San Jose Mercury News featured a Q&A with Michael Gray in its business section.

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