Diversity and equality

The society honored professionals across a wide range of categories, including Women to Watch, Lifetime Achievement, Advancing Diversity and more.

The California Society of CPAs honored eight top female professionals across the state, from emerging to experienced leaders.

The Accounting and Financial Women's Alliance's annual poll, focusing this year on the "women's recession" of 2020, seeks input from firms on their internal female leadership and representation.

Mandatory retirement policies at U.S. auditing firms are pushing out experienced partners who are bringing in substantial revenue and audit quality as good as that of younger partners.

The board proposed changing “comprehensive annual financial report” to “annual comprehensive financial report” because the abbreviation sounds like a racist term in South Africa.

The new ADP DEI Dashboard and Organizational Benchmarks Dashboard help analyze diversity in a workforce, and better allocate staff resources.

GHJ's Derrick Coleman explains why the pandemic and the move to remote work can help the accounting profession move the needle on diversity. 

The state society is accepting applications for a program aimed at local, underrepresented minority high school students pursuing accounting and business careers.

Mary T. Washington Wylie broke a major barrier in the accounting profession in 1943.

The profession is slowly becoming more diverse, but progress has been halting.

The Top Five Firm released its inaugural report on firm diversity, equity and inclusion, detailing its own numbers and setting goals for the future.

The client engagement solution provider's annual list recognizes professionals who are driving "advocacy, change and community."

Published by the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, "Leading Inclusion: Simple Steps and Significant Leaps" details the successful journeys of women finance professionals globally.

The son of a former slave, John W. Cromwell Jr. broke through a major barrier in the accounting profession in 1921.

Prominent accounting organizations released statements condemning violence against Asian-Americans following Atlanta shootings.

Brown Schultz Sheridan & Fritz announces two annual initiatives for minority students; and Test Prep Insight opens its $1,000 student scholarship.

How many of us U.S.-born CPAs could move to another country and communicate well enough to advance in a CPA-related job where that country’s main language is not English?

The Big Four firm's "Diversity, Equity and Inclusion: 2020 KPMG U.S. Transparency Report" reviews its current diversity, equity and inclusion statistics and maps out its ambitious "Accelerate 2025" initiative.

The institute named Gwen van Berne as its sixth female chair-elect and the first to reside abroad.

The American Institute of CPAs opened registration for its 2021 Accounting Scholars Leadership Workshop, to be held Oct. 13-15, 2021, in New Orleans.