Walsh College, DKSS CPAs + Advisors Sponsor Family Business Award
Nominations are open for the Succession Success Award for Family Businesses, presented through#MichBusiness the Best of Michigan Business.
May 27, 2015
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
TROY, Mich. –Walsh College is proud to announce the Succession Success Award, a new recognition for family owned and operated businesses. The Walsh College Leadership Center, in partnership with DKSSCPAs + Advisors, is presenting this award through the Best of Michigan Business awards program.
Nominations are nowopen and must be submitted by August 20, 2015. The winner will receive a free one-year membership to the Leadership Center.
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The Succession Success Award honors familyowned and operated businesses that have successfully transitioned leadership and ownership from one generation to the next.
“Nominees should exhibit the tenacity, vision, and love of their businesses to plan for the future and successfully transition toward it,” says Jan Hubbard, Walsh Leadership Center director.“Family business transitions can be parent to child, and it can also include nieces and nephews, cousins and other family relationships,” she notes.
DKSS CPAs + Advisors, founding sponsor of the Walsh Leadership Center, and Managing Director Ursula Scroggs, are thrilled to partner with Walsh on this award. DKSS specializes in serving family businesses. “This awardrecognizes the contributions that family businesses make to our community and economy,” said Scroggs. The Family Firm Institute’s most recent study shows thatfamily businesses comprise 80 to 90 percent of all businesses in North America. These companies account for 60 percent of total U.S. employment, 78 percent of all new jobs and 65 percent of wages paid.
The Succession Success Award is one of several that will be presented at the Best of #MichBizevent on November 17, 2015 at 5:30 p.m., at the International Banquet Center in Detroit.
As SE Michigan’s leading family business center, The Walsh College Leadership Centeroffersworkshops and two affinity groups specifically focusing onrunning a family business. TheFemales in Family Business and Next Generation in a Family Business peer groups meet monthly to discuss issues common to family-owned businesses.
Interested family businesses are invited to call Jan Hubbard, (248) 823-1392 for more information about the awards or affinity groups. # # #
About Walsh College
Founded in 1922, Walsh College is a private, not for profit institution offering upper-division undergraduate and graduate business and technology degrees and certificate programs.
One of Southeast Michigan's largest business schools, Walsh has locations in Troy, Novi, Clinton Township, and Port Huron, as well as online. Walsh's business services division offers solutions for businesses through training, continuing education, and consulting.
Walsh is accredited by The Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools: (312) 263-0456. The Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs (ACBSP, accredits specific degree programs.
About DKSS CPAs + Advisors
DKSS CPAs + Advisors isrecognized by Crain’s as the 16thlargest accounting firm in SE Michigan, and is based in Troy. Clients include individuals, businesses and not-for-profit organizations with industry focus on distribution, manufacturing and professional services. DKSS is located at 3001 W. Big Beaver, Suite 700, Troy, MI 48084-3108. (248) 649-3400
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