A Call to Women CPAs: Consider a Career in Financial Planning Building trust and developing relationships—skill sets that women generally excel at—are key components of a successful career as a financial planning professional. And the profession needs you.

Accounting’s Strength in Numbers By harnessing the power of community, the accounting profession can create a pathway to gender parity.

Inspiring Progress: A Look at the State of Women in Accounting Female CPAs weigh in on the changes, challenges, and opportunities to keep advancing women in the accounting profession.

GEN NEXT: 4 Steps for Developing Initiatives That Move the Needle These simple steps can help you turn your passion and desire for making a positive change in the accounting profession into a reality.

IN PLAY: Maria Tabrizi, CPA Inside her path to EVP, chief risk officer, and chief technology officer at the only women-founded, women-owned, and women-led U.S. commercial bank formed to serve the women’s economy.

IN Play: Profile of Sara Mikuta, CPA, CGMA, CIA, CRMA The Illinois CPA Society’s 2021 Lifetime Achievement Award winner and immediate past president of the CPA Endowment Fund of Illinois discusses her unique career path and what continues to inspire her to give back.

What We Lose When Women Leave the Workforce COVID-19 is forcing women out of the workforce in record numbers. What do we lose when women leave the workplace, and how can we make it possible for them to stay?

GEN NEXT: How I Built a Career by Embracing My Childhood Dreams My childhood desire was to be a teacher, speaker, and writer—and as a CPA, I’ve created a career for myself that aligns with both my youthful vision and distinctive talents.

IN Play: Q&A With Dorri C. McWhorter, CPA, CITP, CGMA The CEO of the YWCA Metropolitan Chicago and current chair of the ICPAS Board of Directors has a vision of innovation and inclusion for the accounting profession of the future.