Reports & Press Coverage
With more than a decade of history, MOVE has covered a lot of ground.
MOVE Has Been Advocating for Women in Accounting since 2010
The Accounting MOVE Project has been delivering accounting and advisory firms the most comprehensive data and guidance on finding, retaining, developing and advancing diverse talent of all sorts, including women, ethnic minorities and identity groups since 2010. View and download reports, press releases and articles by year below.
2023
Career Sustainability: The New Essential Power Skill
- 2023 Accounting MOVE Project Report
- 2023 Press Release, including Best Firms Lists
- Accounting Today: Career Sustainability: A super-skill for women in accounting
- Going Concern: List of the Day: These Are the Firms on the 2023 MOVE Project Best CPA Firms for Women List
- Accounting Today: DEI is Dead. Long Live DEI!
Inside Public Accounting: 2023 Accounting MOVE Report: Firms Finding New Ways to Reward Women
- CPAmerica: Making MOVEs Towards Equity and Career Sustainability with Bonnie Buol Ruszczyk, Accounting MOVE Project
2022
2021
Permanent Progress from Pandemic Pivots
2020
New Practices Open New Paths
2019
Promotions, Plateaus & Possibilities: New Ways Forward
2018
Expanded Vision, Rising Results: Experience & Evolving Expectations Propel Pipeline Progress
2017
Pipeline to Finish Line: A Challenge to the industry
- 2017 Accounting MOVE Project Report
- 2017 Press Release, including Best Firms Lists
- Public Accounting Report: Firms Reinvent Succession Planning as Baby Boomers Prepare to Retire
- Public Accounting Report: Winning at the Finish Line
- Boston Business Journal: Momentum is Building for Women's Leadership in Accounting
- Going Concern: Here's your 2018 List of the Most Mom-Friendly Public Accounting Firms
- Bloomberg: Accounting Firms Face Steep Climb to Reach Diversity Goals
- New York State Bar Association Journal: Why Your Diversity Initiative is Irrelevant...and How to Fix It
2016
Sponsorship: Stepping Up Success
- 2016 Accounting MOVE Project Report
- 2016 Press Release, including Best Firms Lists
- Public Accounting Report: Escalating Market Expectations Transform Business Case for Advancing Women
- Public Accounting Report: Executive Sponsorship Accelerates Succession and Women's Success
- Chicago Tribune: Back Off, EEOC; Smart Companies are Fixing the Pay Gap
- Chicago Tribune: Bosses, Pull Back the Curtain on Pay Gap for Women
- Financial Times: New Laws Force Shops to Scrutinize Pay Practices for Men, Women
- Harvard Business Review: What to Do When the Devil's Advocate Tries to Derail Your Project
- Wiley's Global Business & Organizational Excellence: Gender Equity in Accounting: How the CPA Profession is Balancing the Numbers
- CPA Practice Advisor: Why Attracting Female Accounting Talent is not One-Size-Fits-All
- BizJournals: Why Adding Female Leaders Helps the Accounting Firm Grow
2015
Lightbulb Moments that Show the Way: Insight Into action
- 2015 Accounting MOVE Project Report
- 2015 Press Release, including Best Firms Lists
- AccountingWeb: Customized Career Paths Keep Women on Partner Track
- Public Accounting Report: Advancing Women Dominates Today's Business News; Affects Clients and Firms
- Public Accounting Report: Men Increasingly Champion Women
- CPA Practice Advisor: The Best Accounting Firms for Women in 2015
- Bloomberg: Why are Women Not Seizing Leadership Reins in Accounting Profession?
2014
Return on Investment: Women's Development is business development – Well-structured initiatives grow firms and careers
- 2014 Accounting MOVE Project Report
- 2014 Press Release, including Best Firms Lists
- AccountingWeb: Boosting Women Accountants Boosts the Bottom Line
- Public Accounting Report: Return on Investment x 3, 2014 Accounting MOVE Project
- Public Accounting Report: Women's Initiatives Translate Into Solid Business Decisions
- Institutional Investor: Mentorship Gives Women a Pull to the Top in Finance
- Forbes: Accounting for the Glass Ceiling
2013
Engage or Exit: Rising Women Evaporate from Accounting Firms' Partnership Pipeline
- 2013 Accounting MOVE Project Report
- 2013 Press Release, including Best Accounting Firms for Women
- AccountingWeb: 2013 Best Public Accounting Firms for Women Announced
- Public Accounting Report: Engage or Exit? 2013 Accounting MOVE Project Report
- 2013 Press Release: Women Accountants Tell Profession Leadership What It Will Take to Keep Them
- Signature, The Magazine for Association Media & Publishing: Something to Say
2012
Building Careers & Communities: How Strategic Community Service Advances Women in Public Accounting
2011
Figuring Out Millennials
- 2011 Accounting MOVE Project Report
- CPA Practice Advisor: Why Firms Must Advance Women
2010
Count Them In: Where & Why Women Leave Public Accounting & How to Reverse the Trend
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