The Corporate Accountant Awards program, in conjunction with event stakeholders Accounting Times, Momentum Media and a panel of leading accounting professionals, has developed a robust awards methodology to form the backbone for assessing, analysing and benchmarking Australia’s leading professionals and teams in the corporate accounting sector.
The judging criteria for award categories are quantitative and qualitative, acknowledging growth, development, diversity, leadership, innovation, excellence and contribution to Australia’s accounting sector.
All teams and professionals that meet eligibility criteria from across Australia’s in-house accounting industry are encouraged to participate in the awards program.
To view all award categories, click here.
Criteria for all award categories, including questionnaire and required supporting information, can be downloaded here.
Australia's in-house accounting sector is given the opportunity to nominate a friend, colleague or peer for the Corporate Accountant Awards.
The accounting industry is informed of the opening of the nominations for the events program via Accounting Times, with additional marketing of the event distributed via social media, partners, industry stakeholders, online media and other channels for the accounting industry. The objective is to ensure inclusiveness and wide participation from across Australia’s accounting industry.
Nominations can be made directly by an individual or company. If you would like to nominate a business partner, colleague, industry participant, business, subcontractor, university, association or any connected eligible entity for a Corporate Accountant Award, click here.
Nominating is easy and will take less than a minute; nominations across multiple categories can be done in one form.
NOTE: Self-nominating participants who meet eligibility criteria can move directly from stage 1 to stage 3.
Nominees are offered the opportunity to provide a submission for those award categories they are nominated for or wish to participate in if self-nominating.
Nominees (teams or individuals) can, where relevant, submit for multiple award categories where they meet the award’s criteria. To review all category details, click here.
Submissions do take time and effort. Expect each nomination to take up to three to four hours; some category submissions may take longer. Participants are encouraged to do fewer submissions but at a higher standard and quality to best ensure positive performance in the awards program.
All submissions are electronic and must be received through our secure awards platform by 5:30pm AEST on Friday, 15 August 2025.
The awards platform is safe and secure. It’s ISO/IEC 27001 certified, and compliant with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), PCI DSS, and more. No information received via the awards process or portal is used for any reason other than for assessing the submission and is only shared with those judges who are judging each specific award.
All submissions undergo a thorough audit process, checking demographic and other information against category-eligible criteria based on the information provided in the submission.
Those submissions deemed eligible against submission criteria are reviewed and assessed by a panel of Momentum Media events and editorial team members and executives, plus industry stakeholders where required, to determine the finalists for each category.
The number of finalists varies for each award category.
Finalists are contacted directly by the Momentum Media team advising that they are finalists. Finalists are then announced publicly via Accounting Times and the Corporate Accountant Awards website. Finalists will be announced in October 2025.
When finalists purchase their ticket, they are provided with a finalist seal that they can display on their website or in their office. Finalists are also provided with a press release to help them spread the word to their network.
Finalist submissions are delivered to a panel of respected professionals and business leaders, who assess each submission against the criteria of each award category. The judging panel can be viewed here.
The judges score each part of the submission across the category’s criteria, giving an aggregated score. Several judges will individually assess each submission for each category, offering a blended score and assessment.
The combined judging scores for each submission for each category are tabulated, with the highest-scoring submission deemed the winner.
One winner will be announced per award category, with the awards presented at the Corporate Accountant Awards gala black-tie dinner. For full details on the event, click here.
For additional details on the methodology or any information regarding your submission, please contact our team here.
