In July, Wheeler sent a few members of the supervisor and manager group to attend the CPAmerica Next Generation (NextGen) Conference in San Diego. The Conference is designed for CPAmerica members’ seniors through managers who want to gain a better understanding of how the public accounting business works.
As first year attendees, our staff were part of the Intermediate Track. They were immersed in relationship building, leadership principles, and practice management basics with other professionals at their level, along with partners and presenters committed to developing “career coachable” employees.
One of the favorite sessions was the partner panel in which partners from three different firms across the country discussed life as a partner, the expectations and responsibilities, and the process it took to become a partner at their firms. It was an eventful three days in San Diego’s perfect weather for our staff and unfortunately they returned to an extremely hot weekend of 97 degrees back in San Jose!