Rockville accounting firm to be acquired after 60 years

Glass Jacobson PA, an accounting firm that has slowly expanded over the years in Montgomery County, has ended a two-year search for a merger partner with a deal to sell to a regional Virginia firm that President Edward J. Jacobson called a mirror image of his firm. “This is us but a bigger version of us,” Jacobson said Tuesday in disclosing the deal to sell to Winchester, Virginia-based Yount, Hyde & Barber or YHB. The deal, which involves Glass Jacobson’s partners selling their equity stake to YHB, is expected to close July 1. The firm’s six principals and 54 employees will stay on but the name will go away.