CBM News

Julia Lafferty, a partner at Councilor, Buchanan & Mitchell (CBM) and a director of the firm’s not-for-profit practice group, will present on a panel session on authenticity at the 2024 Northern Virginia Community College Accounting Symposium. The symposium will be held on Friday, April 26 at the college’s Annandale campus for students pursuing a journey toward a professional accounting career. Her session, scheduled from 11:40 am to 12:10 pm EST, will focus on the meaningfulness of accounting, its genuineness and… Read more ›

A team at Councilor, Buchanan & Mitchell (CBM), led by Manager Anne Hayes, gathered in the firm’s Bethesda office the evening of Thursday, March 14 to prepare 120 sandwiches for Martha’s Table, a Washington, DC-based not-for-profit organization. The organization’s mission to improve opportunities to thrive for Washingtonians includes providing access to healthy food in combination with other services. (Anne and her family plan to prepare and contribute approximately 30 more sandwiches before dropping off the food on Friday, March 15)…. Read more ›

Councilor, Buchanan & Mitchell (CBM) was recognized as a regional leader among 20 other accounting firms in the Capital region by Accounting Today, the leading information resource for public accountants. The Capital region incorporates accounting firms that operate throughout Maryland, Virginia, Washington, DC and West Virginia. CBM experienced revenue growth of 4.55% over the past year. This is the fourth consecutive year CBM has been named to Accounting Today’s list of top regional leaders in the Capital region.   Councilor,… Read more ›

Councilor, Buchanan & Mitchell (CBM) has been named to the Washington Business Journal’s list of top accounting firms in 2024, ranking #25 among other accounting and advisory firms throughout the Washington, DC metropolitan region. CBM ranked in the Journal’s 2023 list as well as from 2018 through 2020. CBM was also recently named to the annual list of accounting firms recognized as regional leaders in the Capital region by Accounting Today. Councilor, Buchanan & Mitchell (CBM) is a professional services… Read more ›

In honor of International Women’s Day, Councilor, Buchanan & Mitchell (CBM) is proud to celebrate Edna Nick, the first of several women who continue to serve as equity partners in our history of more than 100 years. Edna Nick was the first woman to pass the CPA examination in the Commonwealth of Virginia and, after becoming certified, she would go on to work at CBM for 51 years and become the firm’s first equity woman partner. Although women were a… Read more ›

Councilor, Buchanan & Mitchell’s (CBM) divorce financial planning team has donated to the Washington, DC-area’s tristate marketing and social outreach campaign for the third consecutive year. The initiative, driven and administered by DC-area collaborative divorce groups, drives communications efforts through social media to expand awareness of the collaborative divorce process in the tri-state region. CBM’s team of experienced professionals specializes in delivering financial planning-related services including in the areas of dispute resolution and mediation for individuals participating in the collaborative… Read more ›

Reema Patel, a manager at Councilor, Buchanan & Mitchell (CBM) and co-director of D-PATH, the firm’s diversity, equity and inclusion initiative, was interviewed by Bonnie Buol Ruszczyk, owner of the Accounting MOVE Project, on issues related to CBM policies that attract and retain women, a financial planning process she developed to attract millennials and DEI skepticism. Late last year, CBM was recognized for the fifth consecutive year by the Accounting MOVE Project, a benchmarking project that counts and advocates for women in… Read more ›

Abbie Niehoff, a manager of divorce financial planning services at Councilor, Buchanan & Mitchell (CBM), will co-present on financial considerations for divorce on Tuesday, March 12 from 7 to 9 pm, covering areas such as the marital home, pensions and retirement, insurance and spousal support. The presentation, which is part of a six-part series covering many topics focused on divorce in Maryland, will be co-sponsored by New Beginnings, the Bar Foundation of Montgomery County and the Collaborative Practice Center of… Read more ›

Debora E. May, co-founder and senior advisor of May Barnhard Investments, CBM’s fee-only wealth management subsidiary, was recognized in Bethesda Magazine’s Readers’ Picks as a finalist in the Top Financial Advisors category. Read more on the MBI website. 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) will sponsor an evening reception hosted by the Washington Area New Automobile Dealers Association, the Maryland Automobile Dealers Association and the Virginia Automobile Dealers Association at the 2024 NADA Show in Las Vegas, NV. The reception is scheduled on Friday, February 2 from 6 to 9 pm PST in Monet Ballroom 1 & 2 at the Bellagio Hotel & Casino. This is the second consecutive year CBM has sponsored the reception. Members of CBM’s automotive… Read more ›