Wagner and Williams, HoganTaylor merge
Wagner and Williams LLC has merged its financial management consulting practice with HoganTaylor LLP to form a full-service financial management outsourcing practice for owners and CEOs of growing small and mid-sized businesses.
Wagner and Williams executive manager Robert Wagner has been named partner and leader of the new practice group.
The HT Financial Management Services leadership team includes Wagner, who has more than 22 years of experience as chief financial officer of a $100 million public company, as well as five years as an auditor for Price Waterhouse.
It also includes Chris Amburgy, who has more than 16 years as a banking executive with regional financial institutions and has managed loan portfolios in excess of $250 million; Tammy Williams, who served as corporate controller of a public company for more than 16 years; and Regina Lodes who leads HoganTaylor's accounting services division, which will become part of the new consulting practice.
HoganTaylor has offices in Tulsa, Oklahoma City and Fayetteville, Ark., and about 200 employees. The firm provides a range of financial management consulting, comprehensive tax, assurance, accounting, and business valuation/litigation support services.
News from Syria pushes stocks higher
Syria's decision to give up its chemical weapons is sending the U.S. stock market higher and the price of crude oil lower.
The Dow Jones industrial average rose 127 points, or 0.9 percent, to close at 15,191 Tuesday. The Standard & Poor's 500 index rose 12 points, or 0.7 percent, to 1,684. The Nasdaq composite rose 22 points, or 0.6 percent, to 3,729.
The price of crude, which closed above $110 a barrel on Friday, lost $2.13, or 2 percent, to $107.39 a barrel.
Cessna makes first delivery on new plane
Cessna Aircraft delivered its first Cessna TTx single-engine plane to an international buyer, the company said Tuesday.
The all-composite plane was delivered to Kiatichai Monsereenusorn, managing director of Kiattana Transport based in Thailand. Monsereenusorn took delivery at Cessna's Independence plant. The plane will allow him to visit multiple business sites in a day.
The TTx was certified in July.
The international delivery is an important milestone, said Jodi Noah, Cessna's senior vice president for single-engine and propeller aircraft.
"This aircraft has our global customer base very energized," Noah said in a statement.
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The TCC StartUp Cup's search for entrepreneurial excellence narrowed its scope to six finalists Tuesday.
John Chandler, chief financial officer of Magellan Midstream Partners LP, will leave the partnership at the end of March, the Tulsa-based company announced Tuesday.
