Every year, Alan Salmon & Associates, Inc., in cooperation with Intuit Canada, hosts the Inspire Recognition Program. Canadian ProAdvisors, bookkeepers and accountants are nominated annually for voting and the winners are presented an aware during QuickBooks Connect Canada. The program recognizes industry leaders that have impacted the accounting and bookkeeping community in Canada.
Jeff Cates, President of Intuit Canada presented the awards to this year's six winners, two winners were recognized for one of the five categories.
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The five award categories and their winners were:
Bookkeepers in public practice
- Juliet Aurora, CPB of AIS Solutions and the Kninja Network, and
- Tanya Hilts, CPB of Cloud Bookkeeping Services
Accountants in public practice
- Jonathan Carter, CPA of KATA Accounting Solutions
Non-accountants and non-bookkeepers group
- Evelyn Jacks of Knowledge Bureau
Accountants and bookkeepers in public practice under the age of 40
- Bob Wang CPA, CA of Legacy Advantage CPA Ltd.
Accountants and bookkeepers in public practice for less than two years
- Marco Frate, CPA of Serene Accounting
We here at Insightful Accountant would like to extend our congratulations to this year's Inspire Recognition winners. By the way, if you didn't recognize the names, Juliet Aurora's firm AIS Solutions was the 2017 Intuit Global Firm of the Future winner, and Tanya Hilts' firm Cloud Bookkeeping Services was the 2018 Intuit Global Firm of the Future winner. You just have to believe that these Canadians are doing something right when it comes to their 'practice practices' to win Firm of the Future two years in a row.
And speaking of awards, we hope you are inspired enough to either be nominating yourself, or someone else for our 2019 Top 100 and ProAdvisor of the Year Awards. The nomination process opened 1 week ago and is well underway, so if you haven't completed a nomination you will find the nomination form here.