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FROM THE EDITOR

Women in Accounting
SINCE 2012, CPA Practice Advisor magazine has awarded the annual Most Powerful
Women in Accounting awards. This is the third year we have partnered with the AICPA on
these awards, and that partnership has expanded the visibility and reach of the awards

See the 2020 Most Powerful
Women in Accounting at www.
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With well over 200 nominations
this year, our judges were faced
with the enormous task of sorting
through the candidates who brought
forward a level of dedication and
exemplary job performance that
has surpassed all previous years. I
would like to commend the panel
of 13 independent judges who had
the difficult decision of choosing
this year's winners. But more than
that, I would like to congratulate
this year's winners.
You will see if you read the biographies of the women who won the
award this year that these women
weren't selected because they happened to be in the right place at the
right time. Not only are they skilled
and brilliant - they take chances,
they make sacrifices, they step into
the center ring.

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And more than that, the women
who win this award take the time
to bring others with them. I like to
conjure an image of a typical Powerful Women in Accounting winner as
someone who is climbing a ladder to
success, who has one hand reaching
up to the next rung on the ladder,
and the other hand reaching down
to bring the next person along.
I entered the profession when
women in the roles of accountants
were kind of a novelty. In fact,
in those early days, when I was
introduced to clients, there was
frequently an actual moment of
explanation to assure the client that
I was an accountant as opposed to
an office administrator, as those
were roles typically filled by women.
We all worked in the office, not at
home. We all worked the same
hours - 8 a.m. until 5-7 p.m. unless
it was busy season, then the nights
were longer and we worked

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Saturdays and Sundays as well.
There was no paid leave if you took
time off to have a child; you scheduled sick or vacation leave to take
care of family matters. If you didn't
know how to do something, you
figured it out on your own - there
was no mentoring.
Times have changed. Numbers
are increasing. More women than
men are entering the profession
today. And, more women than
ever are leading the way. Each
year the number of nominations
for the Powerful Women awards
increases, and each year there
are more and more qualified
candidates for the award. It takes
women leaders like these to give
those starting out the permission
they need to excel in their chosen
field. When there were no role
models, women had to work twice
as hard as their male counterparts
just to be taken seriously.

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And so it is with great honor and
satisfaction that I would like to say
CONGRATULATIONS! to all of this
year's winners, and actually to all
of the more than 200 nominees who
make up the pool of outstanding
and formidable women who are
leading our profession in directions
we have yet to experience. ■
- Gail Perry, Editor-in-Chief

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