IN PLAY: Nerissa C. Brown, Ph.D., CFE Witnessing firsthand how accounting can change the trajectory of someone’s life for the better, the Illinois CPA Society 2022 Lester H. McKeever Jr. Advancing Diversity Award winner has built a career on bringing more people like her to the table.

The Post-Pandemic Future of Talent Pipelines As the economy reopens, boards and management teams will need to focus on four major trends reshaping the way we hire and train workers.

How to Teach and Engage the iGeneration Whether you call them the iGen, post-millennials, or Gen Z, shaping the talent of this generation is critical to the accounting and finance profession’s future.

IN Play: Q&A With Elizabeth A. Murphy, Ph.D., MBA, CPA ICPAS' 2020 Lifetime Achievement Award Winner has spent her career building lifelong relationships and has found a genuine passion in volunteering.

Laptops: A Lifeline for Students Impacted by COVID-19 In its mission to support future CPAs, the CPA Endowment Fund of Illinois commits to delivering laptops to accounting students threatened by coronavirus-related college closures.

CFOs Seeking (But Not Finding) Finance Talent The greatest staffing challenge facing CFOs in the U.S. and Canada is hiring skilled employees.

The Real ROI of Accounting and Finance Interns From talent acquisition to culture change, workload reduction to professional development, the business benefits of an internship program reach far beyond recruiting alone.

GEN NEXT: Pursuing a Higher Purpose An aspiring Ph.D. aims to help shape the future of the profession through higher education.

Educating Tomorrow Illinois colleges and universities must rise to the challenge of preparing the accountants of the future to keep driving the profession forward.