Helping Women Succeed

The long-term success of women in the accounting workforce isn't only about encouraging more women to join the profession, but to ensure the older white males who lead the profession communicate with them in ways that encourages their success.

“We have all these women being drawn out of accounting schools and we’re not developing them and they’re dropping out of the profession. Firms are investing millions of dollars in women and they’re just walking out the door,” says Gale Crosley, CPA, founder and principal of Crosley + Co., which serves as consultants to CPA firms looking for practice development assistance, including establishing programs to help women excel in their careers. “Women aren’t taught to be initiators. You have to be an initiator to be a good rainmaker.”

In May, Cosley, a CPA, will host a forum for Women in Accounting with the theme "Becoming All You Can Be." Details are here.

Women on Top? [WebCPA]