Achievements. (Member Milestones).

Los Angeles-based CPA Nancy A. Kearson has achieved the AICPA's Accredited in Business Valuation designation ... Best Software, Inc. presented Laguna Hills-based Blytheco Inc. with the "Circle of Excellence" award for the fifth consecutive year ... Corbin & Wertz in Irvine has received the Excellence in Entrepreneurship Award from the Orange County Business Journal ... According to a survey by Public Accounting Report, Grant Thornton expanded its audit practice faster than any other national non-Big Five firm for the fifth consecutive year, and was the only national accounting firm to post a net gain in audit clients for 2001 ... Atherton-based CPA Phillip Gregory Conlon, won the Republican nomination for state treasurer during the March primaries.

Jeanne-Marie Rosenmeier, a Walnut Creek-based CPA and Green Party member, will be among the candidates facing him in the November general election ... Linda Wilson, a Manhattan Beach-based CPA, won the Republican primary for the 53rd District State Assembly seat ... Fresno-based CPAs Vicki Crow and Paul A. Dictos emerged from a split vote in the March election among four CPAs vying to become Fresno County auditor. They will face each other again in a November run-off.