{"id":78164,"date":"2025-12-06T03:13:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T03:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/78164\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T03:13:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T03:13:13","slug":"cri-adds-dk-partners-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/78164\/","title":{"rendered":"CRI Adds DK Partners in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Austin, TX-based accounting and advisory firm DK Partners has joined Carr, Riggs &amp; Ingram (CRI) in a deal that grows the top 25 firm\u2019s presence in the Lone Star State.<\/p>\n<p>Financial terms of the deal weren\u2019t disclosed.<\/p>\n<p>This is Enterprise, AL-based CRI\u2019s fifth merger transaction since it\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cpapracticeadvisor.com\/2024\/11\/18\/cri-goes-down-the-private-equity-path-for-growth\/152229\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">received private equity funding<\/a>\u00a0from investment management firm Centerbridge Partners and venture capital firm Bessemer Venture Partners in November 2024. CRI combined with Indianapolis-based\u00a0top 200 CPA firm CapinCrouse earlier this year, Lufkin, TX-based CPA firm Axley &amp; Rode in June, San Antonio-based Williams Steinert Mask CPAs in September, and Florence, AL-based\u00a0Abroms &amp; Associates in late October.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBased in Austin and trusted across Texas for more than four decades, their team brings deep experience and a strong commitment to client service. This merger strengthens our presence in high growth markets and enhances the value we deliver to businesses and individuals statewide,\u201d CRI said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/criadvisors_criadv-activity-7402007550491168768-FbWD?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=member_desktop&amp;rcm=ACoAAALBGvUBz3De_4VRgttQmNIUyOXqwGynLyQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">LinkedIn post on Dec. 3<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Founded in 1984, DK Partners provides audit, consulting, tax, and advisory services, particularly in the government, nonprofit, banking, and privately held business sectors.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The firm is led by CEO and Managing Partner Steven Kangas who will become a partner at CRI, he said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/steve-kangas-9b58695_im-happy-to-share-that-im-starting-a-new-activity-7402343761512697856-FEQS?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=member_desktop&amp;rcm=ACoAAALBGvUBz3De_4VRgttQmNIUyOXqwGynLyQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">post on LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>With more than 2,500 professionals in 40 markets across the U.S., CRI delivers a full range of audit, accounting, tax, and advisory services to its clients.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"loggedout-cta-logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cpapracticeadvisor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/CPAPA-Logo.svg\" alt=\" &lt;CPA Practice Advisor logo \"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tThanks for reading CPA Practice Advisor!<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe for free to get personalized daily content, newsletters, continuing education, podcasts, whitepapers and more\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"loggedout-cta-link-item loggedout-cta-login-links\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"link-button cpa-button__subscribe\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cpapracticeadvisor.com\/?option=oauthredirect&amp;app_name=CPAPAoauth&amp;redirect_url=https:\/\/www.cpapracticeadvisor.com\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"Subscribe\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\tSubscribe\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAlready registered? <a class=\"cpa-button__subscribe\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cpapracticeadvisor.com\/?option=oauthredirect&amp;app_name=CPAPAoauth&amp;redirect_url=https:\/\/www.cpapracticeadvisor.com\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"Log In\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Log In<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"loggedout-cta-link-item loggedout-cta-faq\">\n\t\t\t\tNeed more information? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cpapracticeadvisor.com\/frequently-asked-questions\/\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"Read the FAQs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read the FAQs<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Austin, TX-based accounting and advisory firm DK Partners has joined Carr, Riggs &amp; Ingram (CRI) in a deal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[14072,38483,132,134,133,38484,38485,38486,1196],"class_list":["post-78164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-accounting","tag-accounting-firms","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-carr-riggs-ingram","tag-cri","tag-firm-management","tag-mergers-and-acquisitions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}