Two independent accounting firms, with offices in Arizona, Arkansas and North Carolina, announced a merger yesterday, effective Oct. 1, 2014.

Thomson & Company, a full-service CPA firm in Phoenix, Arizona, offering comprehensive accounting, tax and business advisory services to clients across the Southwest, is merging with Frost PLLC, an agriculture, food processing and family business accounting firm with offices in Little Rock and Fayetteville, Arkansas, and Raleigh, North Carolina.

The merged firm will be known as Frost PLLC and will continue to operate out of all current locations.

“The Thomson & Company associates will broaden our food processing and agriculture expertise to include the dairy industry, date palm production and will increase our row crop representation as well. While the food processing and agriculture industry represents a large portion of our firm’s business, we will continue to offer our clients a broad portfolio of services to meet their accounting needs.” said Doug Richardson, Frost PLLC executive committee chairman.

Craig Thomson, president of Thomson & Company, stated, "One of Frost's strengths is its expertise in the food and agriculture industry. Thomson & Company's strength is also in serving the agriculture industry. The merger of our firm with Frost creates a deeper pool of resources to better serve the needs of agribusiness throughout the country."

After the merger, Frost PLLC will represent business in 48 states in the U.S. The firm will be led by executive committee members Doug Richardson, Bob Childress and Keith Ekenseair.

Frost PLLC will continue as an independent member firm of Moore Stephens North America, which is itself a regional member of Moore Stephens International Limited (MSIL). All the firms in MSIL are independent entities, owned and managed in each location. PD

—From Frost PLLC news release