Are Long-Standing Business Practices Damaging the Accounting and Finance Profession? For years, decades even, the CPA profession has struggled with quote-unquote generational issues, the advancement of women and minorities, succession planning, work-life imbalance, and more. Believing these always-trending “issues” are simply byproducts of our workplace cultures, in its 2018 Insight Special Feature, “The Culture Conflicts,” the Illinois CPA Society seeks solutions to these business challenges by asking, “Are long-standing business practices damaging the accounting and finance profession?” Further, this multi-dimensional Special Feature also takes a deep dive into the cultural challenges that push women off the C-suite and partner tracks despite statistical evidence that organizations should be expanding their presence across leadership and management.
