The 2024 MP Elite
To contend with a rapidly changing landscape, today's top accounting firm leaders are required to wear more hats than ever before. Besides embodying the attributes of any great business leader, they often must serve as technologists, deal brokers, and brand ambassadors — not just for their firms but for an entire profession in dire need of attracting more young talent.
Given the current state of transformation in accounting, it's unsurprising that the eight leaders that make up Accounting Today's 2024 MP Elite of outstanding firm managing partners are experts at continually adapting and reinventing to not only survive but thrive amid all this uncertainty.
Eileen Sheridan, for example, welcomes the disruption to her firm, Bartlett, Pringle & Wolf. "In the next five to 10 years, our company will undergo significant changes, potentially becoming unrecognizable from its current state," she shared, paving the way for, among other innovations, implementing new technology and a shift from compliance to advisory and consulting work.