Cherry Bekaert Joins Accounting+ to Advance Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Within Profession

Revealed: Jan. 11, 2023 at 11:15 AM CST

RALEIGH, N.C., Jan. 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Cherry Bekaert (the Company) is very pleased to announce signing up for Accounting+, a growing coalition committed to advancing diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) inside of accounting via a nationwide marketing campaign to catch the attention of a new technology of learners into the expertise pipeline.

“We are very pleased to be a part of Accounting+ alongside other outstanding corporations to have interaction and lay the foundation for a much more assorted accounting workforce. We champion DEI and strive to develop a workplace where by everyone can appear to come across their house and make their potential.” Cynthia Daniel, Variety & Lifestyle Leader, Cherry Bekaert Advisory LLC.

Led by the Centre for Audit Excellent (CAQ), a nonpartisan community plan group serving as the voice of U.S. public business auditors, Accounting+ is a very first-of-its kind, job-backed campaign to actively engage large school and college students with dynamic, personalized methods on the advantages of a career in accounting, which include paths to entrepreneurship and to helping create lively area communities. The marketing campaign dispels misperceptions about accounting – namely that it is not appealing or a profession that can help them arrive at their aims. The Accounting+ marketing campaign is based mostly on study that discovered significant openness to accounting as a job.

“We are targeted on addressing the diversity hole that exists within accounting,” claimed Liz Barentzen, Vice President Expertise Initiatives, CAQ. “With Accounting+, our purpose is to get to the future generation of accounting professionals and ensure that college students can see them selves within this fascinating, substantial-demand from customers industry.”

“As we reimagine the potential of the accounting occupation, we stand by our commitment to excellence,” claimed Michelle Thompson, Chief Executive Officer, Cherry Bekaert Advisory LLC. “By increasing the expertise pool and actively inviting more diverse younger persons to look at the accounting neighborhood, we proceed to foster professionals who embody the very same passion for excellence as the Agency. In addition, we hope to assist fuel a foreseeable future pipeline of accounting experts.”

By becoming a member of Accounting+, Cherry Bekaert commits to be a section of the collective work to make improvements to diversity in accounting by taking part in an significant part in upskilling communities and doing work to generate a far more assorted expertise pipeline.

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