Closing Remarks & Recognition of Accounting Today's Fast Growing Firms

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Daniel Hood (00:09):

All right.

(00:16):

I have a couple of important announcements. One, we're almost there, and by there I mean the cocktail party and then karaoke, but I have a couple of important housekeeping things to take care of. First one, there is no more CPE to be scanned in for what I'm saying now does not count for CPE. So, but importantly, the evaluation form is now live. You can follow the QR code that's been on all the things out there. It's also in the app that'll take you the evaluation form. You need to fill out that evaluation form to get your CPE, but it's now live. You can now go do that and take care of it. It should be done by the 23rd, which is tomorrow if I know numbers. So please do that. We want to make sure everyone gets CPE. I should also point out that while after what we're going to be the award ceremony we have going on here in just a few seconds and after my closing remarks, we're going to a cocktail reception.

(01:06):

I encourage you to enjoy that. But then there is a little gap between that and karaoke. Karaoke starting at eight. We will go until it needs to, will go as long as it needs to go, or possibly 11. I'm not sure I should point out. As I say to everybody, you do not need to sing to enjoy karaoke. You can sit and point and laugh at the people who do sing, which is always good. And actually, if you don't sing for the people who do sing, it's good because then you're not cluttering up the line and getting in their way. But anyways, it should be a good time. I hope you'll all join us for that as well. But in the meantime, for now, just to wrap up, the main thing I want to do is I want to thank a ton of people. I want to thank all of our sponsors, particularly our platinum sponsors, miles, talent Hub, and Zoho.

(01:49):

I want to thank all of our advisory board members who've been at such a huge help in taking us from what I thought was a great show last year to an even greater show this year. I want to thank all of our panelists, our young accountants, our PE members, our tech experts, all the people who presented all the individual presenters and all the panelists. It's been great. I've been a ton of great information, a ton of great sessions, everyone understood the mission, which is I think to give you all practical, useful information to take back to help you grow your firms. And with that final thing, I want to thank all of you for attending your energy, your attention, your enthusiasm, the goals you have for your firms. They make this event special. It's accountants who make accounting special, and your passion for your firms and for growth in your firm and for the profession as a whole, for sharing with each other and for moving the profession forward as a whole is enormous. It's fantastic. And really what drives the energy of this event. So thank you all. Give yourselves all a big round of applause.

(02:48):

And start thinking of the songs you want to sing at karaoke. But in the meantime, I'm going to turn it over to our Managing Editor, Danielle Lee, because we do have some awards to present.

Danielle Lee (02:59):

Thank you, Dan. Yes, we have some very exciting awards to present. Me and Dan are very excited to hand these out on behalf of Accounting Today. They are the 2024 fastest growing firms. They're based on the data we compile in our top 100 firms and regional leaders list. If you haven't read that in the past, there's a lot of great insights in there in general. But for this specific subset of firms, they're honored for having the highest percentage of growth over the last year, and we are very excited to recognize them today. We figured what better place than firm Growth Forum to recognize the fastest growing firms that just made sense. So with no further ado, I will announce, and these are an alphabetical order. Oh, go back. There we go. Ario Capstone, CPAs, fit and Cooperman Eyes are Sal, sense of and Vasquez and Company. And unfortunately not everyone could be here in person. So we also want to recognize the other firms that made our list for the fastest growing firms of 2024. So congratulations to everyone on the list.