CBM News

Abbie (Niehoff) Frishman, a manager of divorce financial planning services at Councilor, Buchanan & Mitchell (CBM), will co-present in a virtual session entitled “Financial Considerations for Divorce” on Tuesday, October 15, 2024, focusing on considerations for Maryland residents. The two-hour session, to be hosted from 7 to 9 pm EDT, is part of the six-week Divorce 101 series (click here for the series flyer), administered by New Beginnings to provide public education about the divorce process featuring top family law… Read more ›

Julia Lafferty, partner and a director of not-for-profit services at Councilor, Buchanan & Mitchell (CBM), led a campaign for team members to collect hygiene products such as bras, underwear, menstrual products, toothpaste and related items for I Support the Girls, an organization that works through an international network of affiliates to collect and distribute items to women experiencing homelessness, domestic violence or poverty. Beginning in March, in honor of Women’s History Month, through the end of April, the team collectively… Read more ›

Councilor, Buchanan & Mitchell (CBM) participated in the 2024 Emily Norman Memorial Golf Tournament on Saturday, April 20, 2024 in honor of our team member Emily Norman who passed away last year, leaving a loving husband and three daughters. Approximately 100 golfers joined in the fundraising event during a cool, overcast day at the Great Hope Golf Course in Westover, Maryland. A 50/50 raffle and silent auction also helped to raise money for an education fund for Emily’s family. The… Read more ›

Councilor, Buchanan & Mitchell (CBM) will be a hole sponsor at the 2024 WANADA Open, an annual golf and networking event hosted by the Washington Area New Automobile Dealers Association, a regional association that promotes the retail automobile business in the Washington metropolitan area. The event is scheduled for Monday, June 3, 2024 at the Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, VA. CBM’s automotive dealerships team has supported the annual WANADA Open for many years and expects to participate. Councilor,… Read more ›

Councilor, Buchanan & Mitchell (CBM) served as a gold sponsor at the 2024 Spring Institute of the DC Academy of Collaborative Professionals (DCACP), a DC-area professional development group of financial professionals, attorneys, mental health professionals and child specialists who support clients experiencing the collaborative divorce process. The Institute was a day-long program hosted at DCACP’s offices in Washington, DC on Friday, April 12, featuring David Hoffman, JD, who presented on Managing the Negotiation Within – Both Our Clients and Our… Read more ›

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 ›