New CalCPA chairs plan to give attention to range, training in accounting

The California Society of CPAs named Tayiika Dennis, a principal at Prime 100 Agency CliftonLarsonAllen in Los Angeles, as the brand new chair of the CalCPA board of administrators, through the society’s annual members’ enterprise assembly, whereas Adam Blitz, founding father of Streamline CPA Accountancy Corp. in Fresno, was appointed chair of the CalCPA Schooling Basis at a latest CalCPA Council assembly. 

Dennis plans to focus throughout her time period on rising range, resilience and the pipeline of scholars getting into the accounting and auditing occupation. She was Los Angeles chapter president from 2015-16 and has been a member of CalCPA since 2005.

Tayiika M. Dennis

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“To me, CPA does not simply stand for Licensed Public Accountant — it additionally stands for the “Coolest Career Round,” she mentioned in a press release Monday. “As CPAs, we’re inspirational trailblazers, have earned the general public belief, are goal, numerous and inclusive, and I am unable to consider something cooler than that.” 

Joint analysis research from CalCPA, the Institute of Administration Accountant and the Worldwide Federation of Accountants indicated a scarcity of range in senior management roles within the accounting occupation, which in flip is inhibiting Black and Hispanic accounting graduates from getting into.  “Whereas CalCPA has lengthy targeted on the scholar pipeline, we additionally want to hunt new methods to increase the accounting pipeline by means of enhanced networking alternatives, vibrant social gatherings and distinctive volunteer occasions,” Dennis acknowledged.  

Blitz, as 2022-2023 CalCPA Schooling Basis chair, plans to focus on reinvigorating a number of the basic parts of the occupation because it emerges from the pandemic. 

Adam Blitz

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“The difficulties our occupation has confronted the final two years have underscored the significance of our want as a neighborhood to come back collectively to assist one another in significant methods,” Blitz mentioned in a press release. “I am honored to be elected chair of the muse this yr, and I urge my fellow CPAs to hitch me in reinvigorating the elemental issues that make us, us. These fundamentals give attention to relationship-building and networking with one another, partaking with CalCPA to get worth out of our membership and be greatest ready for what the longer term holds, and enhancing our skilled competencies by means of high quality training and coaching from the muse so we will meet the wants of companies.”

Blitz has been as CPA since 2008 and a member of the CalCPA board of trustees since 2017.