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# Accounting Today: Major changes ahead in M&A

 by [Doug Lewis](https://blog.thinkvisionary.com/author/doug-lewis)  | Feb 6, 2019 | [News](https://blog.thinkvisionary.com/tag/news) 

![Accounting Today: Major changes ahead in M&A](https://blog.thinkvisionary.com/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/changes.jpg)

The president of The Visionary Group, Bob Lewis was recently featured as a CPA M&A industry expert. Read the discussion below about the trends in the M&A space and what changes we can expect to see moving forward.

### Major changes ahead in M&A

More than a decade of continuous high-volume merger & acquisition activity among accounting firms has masked the emergence of a number of new trends in the area in 2018 and 2019, according to a virtual roundtable of experts convened by *Accounting Today*. [Read More…](https://www.accountingtoday.com/news/major-changes-ahead-in-accounting-firm-m-a)

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