Lynda ArtesaniLegal Accountant and Data Migration Specialist at The Proper Trust

Do yourself a favor and attend an accounting conference!

19 Sept 2023 · 1 min

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In this personal testimonial, the speaker—an accounting professional—recounts their initial hesitation to attend industry conferences despite encouragement from their cousin Sarah. They explain how they once thought conferences might not be relevant to their role or firm. After finally attending, the speaker describes a transformative experience: gaining new knowledge, building valuable relationships, making referrals, and discovering practical insights they could apply in their accounting practice. The speaker emphasizes that the benefits extend beyond formal sessions to informal networking, and expresses regret for not attending sooner, urging others to seize conference opportunities early.

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obviously, I came from a different accounting industry or background, but when, you know, Sarah's my cousin, so we would talk about different things that we could relate to, and she would always try to get me to go to conferences, always. And I just felt like, oh, I don't know that it's relative with what I'm doing or what the company I'm working for, if it's needed or whatever it may be. And I just had a conversation with someone last night saying how much I I wish I had done it sooner, how beneficial it is to attend conferences, how much more I've learned with just networking with different people, not only the sessions, but just, you know, or being able to say to someone that maybe needs a specific type of accounting and be like, oh, I know this person, let me connect you, you know, or just having that referral or just, there's so much you come out of a conference with more than just you know, something you can take back and, you know, do in your accounting firm, but just knowledge, relationships, everything really in the end. I mean, there's— I can't say enough of like, I should have done it sooner, I should, you know, but I didn't. Now I'm happy I did.