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The McGladrey Alliance is changing its name to the RSM US Alliance effective September 12. The new name follows the replacement of the name McGladrey LLP by the global RSM brand on October 26. There are about 75 independent member firms of the Alliance in 38 states, the Cayman Islands and Puerto Rico.

Plans to combine SmartVault with Reckon's Virtual Cabinet in one cloud platform are on track, Reckon has said. The Australia-based software company made the statement recently when it reported financial results for the half ended June 30.

Kahuna Accounting was named Accounting Partner of Year for 2016 and Beyond Balanced Books was selected by Bookkeeping Partner of the Year by Xero this week. The cloud software held its awards event at Xerocon, its annual conference, in San Francisco. Xero also rewarded application vendors that link to its software.

Sage, which has been moving away from country-by-country organization, has named Blair Crump as president. It is the first time the United Kingdom-based software company has had a resident for the company's world-wide operations and is part of a massive replacement among the top 100 executives and managers that has occurred in the last two years.