Diversity and equality

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.

The Virginia Society of CPAs' Ethical Considerations in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion course will focus on unconscious bias, decision making and critical thinking.

The Climb Fellowship program will give mid-career accounting professionals the chance to develop leadership skills and connect with a community of their peers.

A research team from Bentley University found that ethnic minority audit partners face significant bias and discrimination compared to their white counterparts.

The Big Four firm's paper outlines the future of a more remote-friendly professional environment with a particular focus on DE&I.

For Eide Bailly, gender diversity in leadership started with crunching the numbers

Rumbi Bwerinofa-Petrozzello, president of the New York State Society of CPAs, is hoping to make accounting a more diverse profession, as the first woman of color to hold the position in the NYSSCPA’s nearly 125-year history.

The state society will award multiple $1,500 scholarships to diverse, college-bound accounting students.

The 2021 Accounting MOVE Project issued its annual report on female representation and leadership in accounting.

The New Jersey Society of CPAs is awarding one-year scholarships to college-bound high school seniors, current accounting students in college and diverse students looking to enter to the profession.

The ICPAS is seeking applicants for its tenth annual internship preparation program, and honored the first graduates of its Strategy Academy training program.

A study published by the American Accounting Association found that participants shared similar experiences with stereotyping, insensitivity and disrespect.

Women have achieved the milestone of 32% of partners and principals, in aggregate, for the 41 firms that participated this year in research by AFWA's Accounting MOVE Project.

We need more women and people of color in the accounting industry. So, are we doing enough to make that happen?