A public stock offering by Xero in the United States will be at least a year after the company's initial plans. In a presentation before shareholders at the company's recent annual meeting, CEO Rod Drury said an offering by the New Zealand-based cloud accounting software company will not be completed before the release of its results for fiscal 2016.

Weaver, a Dallas, Texas-based accounting firm, has named six employees as partners. These include Sara Dempsey in assurance services, who joined the firm, in 2005 and Rob Myatt, in tax and strategic business services, who came to Weaver in 2006 as a manager.

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