North Bay Business Journal

  • Businesses get depreciation break

    January 10th, 2011

    The federal tax relief act approved in December had a number of changes for businesses including a change to bonus depreciation and Section 179.

  • Accounting and Finance: BPM joins NBLC; accounting board releases audit report

    October 3rd, 2010

    Burr Pilger Mayer is the newest member of North Bay Leadership Council. … The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board released a report summarizing inspection observations of audits of financial institutions and other companies during the economic crisis.

  • CPA examination set to change

    August 30th, 2010

    NORTH BAY — The examination to become a Certified Public Accountant, the CBT-e, is changing dramatically starting January of 2011, creating a push for candidates to take the test before the end of the year.

  • ‘Cost segregation’ carries tax benefits

    May 24th, 2010

    NORTH BAY – When a business is looking at purchasing a building for commercial use, one way to maximize deductions on a tax bill is to use cost segregation.

  • Accounting: State OKs tax debt relief for struggling homeowners

    April 26th, 2010

    Jannicelli leaves Moss Adams to join Burr Pilger

  • 2010 Forty Under 40: The winners

    April 26th, 2010

    The winners of the Business Journal’s fourth-annual Forty under 40 awards were selected from more than 75 nominees and represent new honorees not previously chosen in 2007, 2008 or 2009.

  • Accounting: BPM establishes ESOP; Brotemarkle creates Web site to share its ‘passion’

    February 8th, 2010

    Burr Pilger Mayer, the largest California-based accounting and consulting firm with branch offices in Santa Rosa and Novato, is now operating as a corporation under the name Burr Pilger Mayer Inc. and is offering an Employee Stock Ownership Plan.

  • Accounting: Napa’s G&J Seiberlich splits, expands

    January 11th, 2010

    Also: New hires at Moss Adams, partners at BPM

  • Internship program helped BPM recruit

    September 7th, 2009

    NORTH BAY – To get a jump on the pool of future employees, San Francisco-based accounting firm Burr Pilger Mayer decided to start an internship program five years ago.

  • Cancellation of debt can mean big tax bill

    July 20th, 2009

    NORTH BAY – Commercial property owners are having to come up with ways to avoid paying high taxes on loan restructuring and sales back to a bank.

  • Accounting: 2009 offers special incentives for going solar

    July 20th, 2009

    The financial incentives for going solar are numerous, but not all of them may be around much longer.

  • Five steps to achieving a business turnaround

    May 25th, 2009

    Why do businesses fail? Excess leverage, management shortcomings, technology changes, loss of market share, an ineffective board of directors and overall economic conditions are some of the leading causes of business failure today.

  • ‘Stimulus’ would help housing, homebuyers

    February 9th, 2009

    NORTH BAY – Residential real estate builders, banks, mortgage brokers and new homeowners stand to be positively impacted by American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, commonly referred to as the “stimulus package.”

  • Banking & Finance: Burr Pilger, Vista Wealth Management merge

    February 2nd, 2009

    Burr Pilger Mayer announced a move toward more offerings for clients via a merger with Vista Wealth Management in Palo Alto.

  • La Tortilla tells successful story of succession planning

    December 8th, 2008

    Editor’s note: This story is drawn from a Nov. 6 Business Journal conference that focused on how La Tortilla Factory planned for and accomplished an internal transfer in leadership using external resources. The conference included La Tortilla Factory’s Chairman Carlos Tamayo (keynote speaker); Jim Andersen, partner at Andersen & Company CPAs; Bill Schrader, president of Exchange Bank; Jeff Menashe, CEO of the Demeter Group; and Dan Cohn, partner at Farella Braun & Martel, as moderator.

  • Andersen & Company merges with SF firm

    December 8th, 2008

    NORTH BAY – Andersen & Company, the North Bay’s fourth-largest accounting firm, is merging with Burr Pilger Mayer on Jan. 1, a 350-employee accounting and consulting firm headquartered in San Francisco that just opened its first North Bay office in November.

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