CBM News

Mikki Obreja, senior tax manager at CBM, has been quoted in a white paper by CrossTower, a cryptocurrency exchange entitled “Cryptocurrency Donations”. Mikki addresses the impact on a donor’s long-term capital gains rate after the sale of bitcoin based on the donor’s taxable income and filing status. Click here to read the white paper. Councilor, Buchanan & Mitchell (CBM) is a professional services firm delivering tax, accounting and business advisory expertise throughout the Mid-Atlantic region from offices in Bethesda, MD and Washington, DC.  

Councilor, Buchanan & Mitchell (CBM) received a 2022 Marketing Achievement Award at the annual Association for Accounting Marketing Summit in Louisville, Kentucky on Monday, May 3. The award, presented in the Content and Collateral Marketing category,  recognized the firm’s 100th anniversary publication, CBM100-Book, which launched during the firm’s centennial celebration in October 2021. CBM100-Book was the result of more than two years of commitment and reflects the history of CBM set against the historical backdrop of Washington, DC, national and… Read more ›

Councilor, Buchanan & Mitchell (CBM) is proud to serve as a gold sponsor of the 2022 Greater Washington Society of CPAs Women’s Leadership Conference at the Towers Crescent Conference Center in Vienna, VA. This event, to be held on Thursday, May 19, provides networking and professional development opportunities for women throughout the Washington, DC metropolitan region. Through the firm’s internal diversity and inclusion group, Diversity – Professional Accountants and Advisors Transforming the Horizon (D-PATH), CBM has been involved for several… Read more ›

Councilor, Buchanan & Mitchell (CBM), a full-service tax, accounting and advisory business serving clients in the Washington, DC metropolitan and Mid-Atlantic regions, collaborated with individual team members to donate more than $14,000 to Ukraine relief efforts and in support of girls and women experiencing homelessness around the world. The giving campaign ran through March 2022 in recognition of Women’s History Month, International Women’s Day and current international events. Ukraine relief donations by individual team members totaled $6,910 in support of… Read more ›

PDF: Councilor, Buchanan & Mitchell (CBM) Recognized by Accounting Today for the Second Consecutive Year as a Leading Firm in the Capital Region Councilor, Buchanan & Mitchell (CBM), a full-service tax, accounting and advisory business serving clients in the Washington, DC metropolitan and Mid-Atlantic regions, was recognized by Accounting Today for the second consecutive year as a regional leader among accounting firms in the Capital region for above-average growth. Professional accounting firms throughout the Capital region, which encompasses Delaware, Maryland,… Read more ›

If you’re looking for ways to save money, you may have already trimmed the areas of spending where cutting expenses was relatively easy: groceries, eating out, cable TV, phone usage. However, for many Americans, commuting costs are their second-largest monthly expense after housing. If you haven’t considered it before, now may be a good time to take a closer look at your commuting costs and how you might trim them. Here are some ideas for putting the brakes on commute-related… Read more ›

  Councilor, Buchanan & Mitchell’s (CBM) CBM100-Charities initiative showed what ambition looks like on the part of CBM Document Management Specialist Sal Attanasio’s decision to take the idea of community service cross-country. In November 2021, Sal and his wife, Joy, set off on an ocean-to-ocean trip from Atlantic Beach, Florida to Pacific Beach, California. Sal was inspired to take the trip by decades of bike tourists who came before, taking on self-supported trips since at least 1976, when Adventure Cycling… Read more ›

PDF: Councilor, Buchanan & Michell (CBM) Recognized for Corporate Philanthropy by the Washington Business Journal Councilor, Buchanan & Mitchell (CBM), a full-service tax, accounting and advisory business serving clients in the Washington, DC metropolitan and Mid-Atlantic regions, was recognized for its 2020 philanthropic contributions by the Washington Business Journal. CBM ranked 5th among small businesses with 1,123 metro-area volunteer hours and 6th in metro-area financial contributions of $86,678. “This reflects only partly on a successful 100th anniversary campaign,” said Daniel… Read more ›

Senior Auditor Chichi Bhene is known for feeding people and being a natural nurturer. As she says, “you don’t come to my house hungry and leave hungry. You certainly don’t go out with me and don’t grab anything to eat.” For each of the last five years, she has committed to making at least one family Christmas lunch. One meal eventually became 50 and she lost track in between. She makes it her goal to make it a higher number… Read more ›

Councilor, Buchanan & Mitchell (CBM) was recognized by the Accounting and Financial Women’s Alliance (AFWA) and the Accounting MOVE Project for the third consecutive year as a top accounting firm for leadership equity. Recognition acknowledges the achievements of firms nationwide that successfully passed the threshold of having at least 30% of its partner and principal group composed of women, a statistic research suggests allows for meaningful contributions from a particular group. “We could not be prouder of the CBM team,”… Read more ›