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Exclusive Helping women to close the influence gap: Getting your voice heard as a female leader
  • Article
  • 01 Mar 2023
  • Carla Miller
  • Leadership Excellence
Female leaders across the globe are experiencing the Influence Gap and this is a systemic problem, not a problem with women. Leading UK leadership coach Carla Miller discusses the advice in her book, 'Closing the Influence Gap', a practical guide for women in leadership positions who want to be heard.
Exclusive Life experiences of a Black accounting student and faculty member
  • Article
  • 01 Feb 2023
  • Mark C.Dawkins
  • Issues in Accounting Education
Mark C.Dawkins discusses his life experiences as a Black student studying accounting at several predominantly white institutions and then as a Black accounting faculty member serving for 28 years. He includes some personal thoughts, memories and experiences, with the aim of providing some insights about the need for and benefits derived from diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) training, initiatives and programs for accounting students.
Exclusive BDO aims to increase diversity and inclusion
  • Article
  • 21 Dec 2022
  • Michael Cohn
  • Accounting Today
An interview with Bernadette Pieters, who was appointed as BDO USA's first diversity, equity and inclusion officer in 2022. She discusses the progress made at the firm towards improving its workplace diversity. 'Intentional mentoring' to help retain staff from diverse backgrounds is one of her focuses, as well as revisiting job postings to describe opportunities in a clear and concise way.
Exclusive Emphasizing DE&I in employee retention
  • Article
  • 01 Dec 2022
  • Rinku Bhattacharya, Jain Shreyanse
  • Strategic Finance
While it's important for companies to recruit a diverse workforce, they must also ensure that they retain that talent to realize the full benefits. Companies should work on creating a sense of belonging and also continuously evaluate their diversity programs.
Exclusive Accountants work on improving diversity
  • Article
  • 07 May 2022
  • Michael Cohn
  • Accounting Today
The accounting profession is undergoing a re-examination of its efforts to address the lack of diversity. A new global survey of finance and accounting professionals details over 70 best practices for fostering diversity, equity and inclusion, along with indicators and metrics to measure progress.
Exclusive Build the best accounting profession through diversity, equity and inclusion
  • Article
  • 01 Apr 2022
  • Bernice Jenkins, Loreal Jiles, Stephen J.McNally
  • Pennsylvania CPA Journal
The authors discuss why the accounting profession should care about discussions regarding diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) and invest time and resources to promote DE&I within accounting workplaces. They highlight insights from recent DE&I research, share why it matters to the profession, and end with practical actions you can take.
Exclusive Towards a culture of belonging: Collective action toward diversity, equity, and inclusion is needed to enact change in the global accounting profession
  • Article
  • 01 Mar 2022
  • Loreal Jiles, Diane Jules, Brad J.Monterio
  • Strategic Finance
Collective action toward diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) is needed to advance change in the global accounting profession. The article looks at the state of DE&I in accounting and finance and actionable DE&I practices for firms to carry out.
Exclusive Cognitive diversity - innovation's 'secret sauce'
  • Article
  • 01 Mar 2022
  • Terri Simpkin
  • Data Centre Management
Terri Simpkin, Associate Professor and MBA director at the University of Tasmania, shares the importance of creating a culture that encourages teams to bring their authentic selves and divergent ideas to work. She argues that innovation is fundamentally reliant on diversity - and in particular, diversity of thinking. She provides tips on recruiting for diversity of thinking ('cognitive diversity') and keeping those people in the business.
Exclusive 'Limited pipeline' biggest challenge in advancing DE&I, survey finds
  • Article
  • 18 Feb 2022
  • Sean McCabe
  • Accounting Today
Bloomberg Tax's 2021 US Diversity & Inclusion Survey found that both accounting firms and corporate tax departments see a lack of exceptional talent to hire as the top roadblock in addressing diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) within their organizations. Accounting firm respondents cited commitments and/or a lack of support for non-billable work as their other top roadblock on the road to diversity, while corporate tax respondents cited a lack of diversity in senior leadership teams.
Exclusive Why are women accountants leaving their jobs?
  • Article
  • 01 Dec 2021
  • Carly Moulang, Alessandro Ghio
  • Acuity
A two-year study by accounting researchers Carly Mouland CA and Alessandro Ghio is pinpointing how accounting firms can better tackle gender equity and stop losing female staff. Their study focused on over 250 female accountants in Australia, investigating their wellbeing at work and reasons women leave the accounting profession.
Exclusive Pandemic hurt diversity efforts in tax and accounting
  • Article
  • 02 Oct 2021
  • Michael Cohn
  • Accounting Today
Ethnic minority and female accountants took on increased workloads at accounting firms during the Covid-19 pandemic, but didn't necessarily see their careers advance, according to a new US study, 'Pandemic Nation Report'. Thomson Reuters Tax and Accounting and PrimeGlobal polled more than 300 tax and accounting professionals from various countries and backgrounds for the report.
Exclusive The impact of mentoring: how to build on success
  • Article
  • 01 Sep 2021
  • Rebecca Pitman
  • Journal of Accountancy
The authors take a look at how mentoring can benefit Black accounting professionals. They identify gaps in support for Black accountants in the US and provide three recommendations to help address the support gaps: assign formal mentors, mandate early sponsorship and support establishment of informal mentors.
Exclusive 3 ways to accomplish diversity and inclusion in the hiring process
  • Article
  • 16 Aug 2021
  • Mary Newgard
  • Insurance Journal
Insurance sector recruiter Mary Newgard covers three ways you can make an immediate impact to your company's Diversity & Inclusion strategy when recruiting new staff.
Exclusive Diversity, equity and inclusion in the accounting profession: A few thoughts
  • Article
  • 01 Aug 2021
  • Joshua Rosenstock, Martin Shenkman
  • CPA Journal
Diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) concepts can translate to small public accounting firms and even solo practices, say the authors. They consider some ways that small accounting firms can incorporate DEI considerations and make their services more inclusive for clients.
Exclusive LGBTQIA employees leaving accounting profession
  • Article
  • 13 Jul 2021
  • Michael Cohn
  • Accounting Today
Nearly one in five accountants identifying as LGBTQIA (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning, intersex and asexual) left the profession because of a lack of diversity, equitable treatment or inclusion, according to a recent US study. The study, published in February 2021 by the Institute of Management Accountants and the California Society of CPAs, also found that 43% to 55% of female, non-white, Hispanic, Latino and LGBTQIA respondents have left a company due to a perceived lack of equitable treatment. The researchers make suggestions on ways accounting firms can improve work...
Exclusive Meet the first Black CPA Ph.Ds
  • Article
  • 07 Jul 2021
  • Anita Dennis
  • Accounting Today
The stories of William Louis Campfield and Larzette Hale, who were among the first Black accountants to earn Ph.Ds in accounting in the US. The first Black Certified Public Accountant (CPA) Ph.Ds, and the professors they mentored or inspired, have played an important role in attracting generations of ambitious Black students to the accounting profession.
Exclusive UK failing on diversity, female financiers, reports say
  • Article
  • 16 Jun 2021
  • Lisa Pham
  • Bloomberg
Smaller companies in Britain's FTSE All-Share Index are lagging behind their larger peers when it comes to having diverse representation on their boards, according to a report by Women on Boards UK. More than half of the companies in the FTSE All-Share Index excluding the top 350 firms had all-male executive leadership teams as of the end of last year, compared with 8% of FTSE 350 companies, the report says.
Exclusive Job sharing can help keep women in senior roles
  • Article
  • 01 Jun 2021
  • Camille Howard
  • Acuity
Could job sharing help make work, and pay, more equal for women in senior professional roles? Camille Howard takes a look at ways to make job sharing and other flexible roles work well, using accountancy firms as an example.
Exclusive Meet the first Black woman CPA
  • Article
  • 08 Apr 2021
  • Anita Dennis
  • Accounting Today
Mary T. Washington Wylie broke a major barrier in the accounting profession in 1943, becoming the first Black woman in the US to earn the Certified Public Accountant (CPA) license. The article tells her story, which illustrates the importance of early Black CPAs' success and the advances they made for future generations of accountants.
Exclusive Workplaces can't be inclusive without tackling bias
  • Article
  • 06 Apr 2021
  • Chris Hughes
  • Bloomberg
Bloomberg Opinion article reporting that a movement against unconscious bias training for employees is growing. Britain's Equality and Human Rights Commission has argued that such training could backfire by suggesting stereotypes and biases are unchangeable. More research is needed to identify what measures really work to advance workplace fairness.
Exclusive Want progress on diversity? Link it to pay
  • Article
  • 01 Apr 2021
  • Phil Wahba
  • Fortune International - Europe
More big businesses are linking executive bonuses to improvements in racial and gender diversity. Will pay motivate leaders to make steps forward in workplace equality? Phil Wahba looks at examples including goals used by Nike and Microsoft.
Exclusive How to build a more diverse, inclusive accounting firm
  • Article
  • 01 Apr 2021
  • Jody Padar
  • Accounting Today
Advice on improving diversity, equity and inclusion in an accounting firm, including creating a public diversity statement, running unconscious bias training and providing mentorship opportunities.
Exclusive A profession reflecting life: Bringing diversity, equity and inclusion to the accounting world
  • Article
  • 01 Mar 2021
  • Kathy Johnson
  • California CPA
Select findings from a recent joint research paper into diversifying US accounting talent are presented, including key diversity statistics for US accounting and finance professionals.
Exclusive Closing the diversity gap
  • Article
  • 01 Feb 2021
  • Loreal Jiles, Diane Jules, Brad Monterio
  • Strategic Finance
A comprehensive study finds that greater equity and inclusion are needed to close a workplace diversity gap within the US accounting profession, particularly at leadership levels. The diversity progress made more broadly across the profession doesn't yet manifest at senior levels, where more than 90% of the profession's executive leadership are white. LGBTQIA people are also underrepresented in senior leadership roles.
Exclusive Class, the forgotten element of diversity
  • Article
  • 01 Jan 2021
  • Paul Ingram
  • Harvard Business Review
Article discusses social class disadvantage and how it should be treated as important as gender or race. It is also reported that GDP is higher per capita in countries where more managers come from lower social-class origins.
Exclusive Data bias and diversity and inclusion
  • Article
  • 01 Dec 2020
  • Richard Schaper, Kenya Mmatsushita
  • Strategic Finance
The article examines the possible effects of data bias in analytical models on the implementation by organizations and businesses of their diversity and inclusion programs. Also cited are the key role played by finance, accounting and corporate professionals in preventing the use of data bias in decision making, the data life cycle process, and ways to minimize data error or bias.
Exclusive Diversity beyond the business case
  • Article
  • 01 Nov 2020
  • Robin J Ely, David A Thomas
  • Harvard Business Review
Leaders may mean well when they tout the economic payoffs of hiring more women and people of color, but there is no research support for the notion that diversifying the workforce automatically improves a company’s performance. This article critiques the popular rhetoric about diversity and revisits an argument the authors made 25 years ago: To fully benefit from increased racial and gender diversity, organizations must adopt a learning orientation and be willing to change the corporate culture and power structure. Four actions are key for leaders: building trust and creating a workplace where...
Exclusive Workplace diversity and inclusion adapts in a time of protests
  • Article
  • 01 Sep 2020
  • Karmin Bailey, Felix Bannerman, Bernice Jenkins
  • Strategic Finance
Finance professionals can boost diversity and inclusion and reduce bias by advocating for change within their organisations. A panel of black accounting and finance professionals discuss cultural sensitivity training, unconscious bias in the workplace and recruitment strategies to encourage diverse candidates.
Exclusive Who aspires to be a partner in a public accounting firm? A study of individual characteristics and gender differences
  • Article
  • 01 Sep 2020
  • M.Venkataraman Iyer, Ambrose Jones III
  • Accounting Horizons
Research identifying characteristics influencing partner aspirations in US public accounting firms, with special emphasis on factors influencing women's careers. The authors found that perceptions of flexibility and firm initiatives such as participation in mentorship programs and leadership programs have a significant positive impact on aspirations.
Exclusive Women naturally better leaders in times of crisis and beyond
  • Article
  • 01 May 2020
  • Danielle Grant
  • Personal Excellence
The article presents a report of Leadership and Emotional Intelligence Performance Accelerator (LEIPA), 360-feedback tool from LeaderShape Global, which reveals that women are better leaders than men in the times of crisis. It mentions about key Emotional Intelligence (EI) capabilities of women such as change catalyst, transparency, empathy and inspirational leadership. It mentions women lead best through offering a route to transformation through motivation.
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