The Accounting and Financial Women’s Alliance released its 2023 Accounting MOVE Project on Friday, focusing on the concept of “career sustainability” as women navigate the shifting workplace in the accounting profession, while also issuing lists of the Best Firms for Women and Best Firms for Equity Leadership.
“For women, career sustainability addresses the capacity to maintain motivation and energy at every step, all the while rebalancing the personal and professional with each new engagement,” said the report. “For firms, career sustainability engenders a leadership culture, defining new capabilities, qualifications, and measurements for unmapped growth. For both women and firms, this super skill becomes the ability to ‘skate to where the puck is’ on slanted ice through upended physics.”
The report examines how both women accountants and accounting firms can maintain and increase their momentum, as well as the return on investment for these shifts and how to measure them.
“In today’s increasingly challenging talent crunch, it is important for firms to create opportunities for women to advance in the way that makes the most sense for them,” said Tricia Bencich, inclusion and social responsibility associate director at Moss Adams, a Seattle-based firm, in a statement. “We must work together to ensure clients get the attention they need, employees have the power to craft their ideal careers, and firms can continue to thrive.”
In conjunction with the report, AFWA and the Accounting MOVE Project released their two lists of exemplary CPA firms, based on the Accounting MOVE Project results: the 2023 Best Firms for Women and the 2023 Best Firms for Equity Leadership.
Best CPA Firms for Women (in alphabetical order):
- Abbott, Stringham & Lynch
- Armanino
- BeachFleischman PLLC
- BerryDunn
- Bland & Associates, P.C.
- BPM LLP
- Clark Nuber
- Councilor, Buchanan & Mitchell, PC
- Eide Bailly
- James Moore & Co.
- Johanson & Yau
- Moss Adams
- Rehmann LLC
- RoseRyan, a ZRG Company
- Schellman
- The Bonadio Group
Best CPA Firms for Equity Leadership (in descending order of percentage of women partners and principals):
73% KWC CPAs
61% Kerkering, Barberio & Co.
57% BeachFleischman PLLC
57% RoseRyan, a ZRG Company
53% Abbott, Stringham & Lynch
50% Clark Nuber
48% James Moore & Co.
44% Bland & Associates, P.C.
44% HBE LLP
43% The Bonadio Group
43% MCM CPAs & Advisors LLP
43% Jones & Roth
42% Johanson & Yau
40% Councilor Buchanan & Mitchell, PC
39% BerryDunn
37% Rehmann LLC
35% Frazier & Deeter
31% Eide Bailly
31% BPM LLP
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