Diversity and equality

The Accounting and Financial Women's Alliance's yearly poll invites firms to share their data on female leadership, diversity and representation.

The annual program provides up to $10,000 and a paid internship to 10 diverse accounting students pursuing CPA licensure.

Female chief financial officers are more likely to give concise responses, backed by numbers, than their male counterparts, new research shows.

The CFA Institute has created a voluntary Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Code for the Investment Profession in the United States and Canada as financial firms wrestle with expanding a more diverse workforce.

Becker Professional Education's five-course, eight-credit CPE course will teach business managers to implement more diversity, equity, belonging and inclusion practices into their organizations.

A Bloomberg Tax survey found that both accounting firms and corporate tax departments cited a lack of exceptional talent to hire as the top roadblock.

The Deloitte Foundation Accounting Scholars Program will fund $30 million in scholarships for students pursuing a fifth-year master's degree program in accounting from select Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) accredited colleges and universities, including the W. P. Carey School of Business at ASU.

Deloitte & Touche chair and CEO Lara Abrash has been watching the Big Four firm’s audit practice changing over the past two years.

The New Jersey Society of CPAs' yearly awards honor local professionals who "demonstrate exceptional work in or support of New Jersey's accounting profession."

The global accounting network aims to support and showcase the work of top female leaders from around the globe.

The National Association of Black Accountants and the DOF will strive to bring their combined resources to more Black entrepreneurs across the country.

In the first step in a multiphase agreement, NABA members will receive a subscription to a community and content hub for career development.

Twenty-nine diverse college students marked the tenth annual class to graduate from the three-day internship preparation course.

The Center for Audit Quality began a new initiative to bring more young people into the accounting profession, particularly from Black and Latino backgrounds.

The board decided to initiate two new projects this month, even though it’s being absorbed into a new International Sustainability Standards Board by next June.

The study will start by looking at coronavirus-related stimulus payments.

The Philadelphia firm announced that its leadership will consist of all women and non-founding shareholders for the first time in its 31-year history.

The Max M. Fisher College of Business and Big Four firm Deloitte will fund diverse students' tuition to strengthen the CPA pipeline via the Deloitte Foundation Accounting Scholars Program.

Accounting's most influential share what's top of mind for them this year.

The state society honored emerging and experienced leaders across the state.