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Accounting Profession Has a Serious Lack of Diversity

It may come as a shock to some, but only 1 percent of public accounting partners are African American and only 3 percent of CFOs of Fortune 500 companies have minority backgrounds. Howard University’s Center for Accounting Education and Cook Ross Inc. finds that many African Americans are leaving public accounting out of frustration with a lack of advancement. Click here to read more and to download an informative, 24-page PDF entitled “Retaining African Americans in the Accounting Profession: A Success Model.”
 
 



INSIGHT Into Diversity