Beard Miller Company LLP (bmc), a legacy firm of ParenteBeard LLC, was an accounting and auditing firm serving clients mainly in the mid-Atlantic region of the United States. The firm was created through a series of mergers, the largest occurring in January 2001 between Beard & Company and Miller & Company. Prior to merging with Parente Randolph in October 2009, bmc had 16 offices located in Pennsylvania, Maryland, New Jersey and New York, and more than 600 employees. bmc was a member of the larger BDO Seidman Alliance, which enables Accounting and Consulting organizations other than the "Big 4 auditors" to share resources which may be otherwise unattainable. The CEO of bmc was Lamar Stoltzfus, who is now chairman of ParenteBeard.

Branding

Though the firm’s legal name was Beard Miller Company, the firm elected to use its initials in lower case (bmc) in day to day operations. The firm also used numbers in the place of letters when advertising the brand’s image, a form of "rebus

Rebus

A rebus is an allusional device that uses pictures to represent words or parts of words. It was a favourite form of heraldic expression used in the Middle Ages to denote surnames, for example in its basic form 3 salmon fish to denote the name "Salmon"...

". For instance, the word “vision”, which appeared prominently in the company’s literature, is spelled out V1510N.

Services

bmc provided the following services: Audit (including IT Audit and Employee Benefits), Tax Consulting and Form Preparation, and Business Consulting. The firm also had a sister organization, bmc Financial Advisors, which, while technically a separate entity, worked closely with the larger accounting organization.

National Rankings

28th in Vault’s most prestigious accounting firms in 2008

9th in SEC clients serviced in 2008

39th in Net Revenue in 2008

14th in growth between 2007 and 2008

Pennsylvania

Malvern

Reading

Lancaster

Allentown

Harrisburg

York

Altoona

Pittsburgh

Wexford

Hanover

Merger

In August 2009, the firm announced that it would merge with Parente Randolph, another Mid-Atlantic public accounting firm, effective October 1, 2009. The new firm is headquartered in Philadelphia, PA and is named ParenteBeard LLC.

External links

• bmc website
• BDO Seidman Alliance homepage