Tracy Pittman

I contribute my success to developing processes that would allow them to be in compliance and to have a successful audit so when they're going after different grants. They have measurable tools, and they also have a clean audit in place.

The best advice I've ever received was from an older lady named Willie Barrow. She once told me that if you're not rich in cash and assets, that you should be rich in relationships. What she meant by that is that develop yourself a solid network. That you can always have, and you can lean on them, and they can lean on you, and that's your success. It's not always about the money in your pocket. It's also about the relationship that you build with people.

I would say we need more women in accounting. Accounting has been slow with COVID attracting the new generation. But, it is a career where you will always have a streamline of revenue for yourself. But also, if you join the not-for-profit world, it's that passion of giving back, and just Helping organizations accomplish their mission, and just being a part of it.

The biggest opportunity is that you will be able to come in where accounting is making a change, like I said, to the AI that it's to me, it's not as hard, as it was in the past, because everything started off where it was pencil and pen, then it went to computer, Excel, but now it's looking you have a little more assistance with, the different tools that's out here now. And I think that success looks different, and I think that it's a good, career path for anyone that's looking for stabilization, across their career journey.

My values is to always, in both work and, personal life, is honesty, integrity, also, Being able to, help someone else, lift someone else up into their success. That is very important to me. And just, you know, talking to the new generation, and you know, I like to persuade people to hopefully become an accountant. You know, that's one of my goals, is to try to just bring more people into this field.