You can apply for the 2025 U.S. ProAdvisor Awards HERE or nominate a U.S. ProAdvisor HERE.
Insightful Accountant has launched the 2025 International ProAdvisor Awards, including the Top 50 International ProAdvisors from around the Globe and the 2025 International ProAdvisor of the Year.
The 2025 Awards Process
For 2025, the Insightful Accountant ProAdvisor Awards are now a year-round process. Extending the process will make the Awards available to more ProAdvisors from around the Globe.
Applicants potentially have up to seven months to complete their formal applications. They can do so on a come-and-go basis, allowing them to enter training, certifications, and more as earned. The voting period for candidates will also be extended, providing greater opportunity to cast ballots for deserving ProAdvisors.
Insightful Accountant's U.S. and International ProAdvisor Awards process will run on the same schedule for 2025*.
International ProAdvisor Qualifications for 2025
The qualifications for these awards are:
- As of 2025, International ProAdvisors must reside in a country other than the United States of America (or its territories).
- All International ProAdvisor applicants must actively practice as a QuickBooks ProAdvisor®or QuickBooks Professional and, in so doing, support or provide services to one or more actual clients using QuickBooks®.
- International ProAdvisor applicants must hold Intuit ProAdvisor status or the equivalent** for their country or a country within their Intuit Global Region. Such equivalent certification may include, but not be limited to, the QuickBooks Online (Global) Accountant Certification. Alternatively, International ProAdvisors can possess a certification from any country where Intuit issues such certification, including the United States; however, a U.S. certification does not qualify an International ProAdvisor (by residence) to participate in the U.S. ProAdvisor Awards (limited to U.S. residents only).
Nominating Your Favorite ProAdvisor
Individuals from around the Globe can nominate their favorite ProAdvisor. Individuals nominating their favorite ProAdvisor must provide essential contact information for themselves and the nominee. The nominee will be notified via email of their nomination and the individual nominating them. That email will give the nominee access to the 'formal application.'
Nominations for International ProAdvisors by a 3rd party will remain open until 11:59:59 PM, Pacific Standard Time on November 19, 2024*.
The official nomination form can be found HERE.
International ProAdvisor Formal Applications
ProAdvisors need not nominate themselves or use the Nomination form to access the Formal Application.
ProAdvisors don't need to bother with the nomination form; they now have the option to go straight to the 2025 application form. (Murph)
International ProAdvisors can apply HERE.
- After some initial questions, applicants will be screened against the minimum requirements, including uploading their current certification(s).
- Eligibility determination will be made immediately upon the required data being confirmed, and applicants will be notified within the application form regarding eligibility results. Applicants determined initially ineligible can update their status, re-open their application form, and potentially qualify before the end of the multi-month application process.
- Eligible applicants can open, close, re-open, and continue working on their application forms until the application process closes. This means it is essential that you maintain the form URL you will be sent the first time you end and save the form, as that URL will be unique to you.
- Whether a ProAdvisor has finalized or is still working their way through their application, on or about the first Tuesday in January 2025*, all applicants will be notified to 're-open' and review their application forms, looking for additional content that may have been updated.
- Once the application period closes, all (complete or partial) applications will be 'frozen for scoring' and no longer be accessible.
Applicants must finalize their application forms by February 11, 2025, at 12:59:59 PM Pacific Standard Time*.
After the 2025 Applications Close
An earlier start to nominations allows ProAdvisors to begin the application process immediately, and an earlier application close date means that voting can begin sooner. Insightful Accountant will advise participants and the ProAdvisor community about the voting dates well before the voting period begins.
2025 Award Program Sponsors
Sponsors are the lifeblood of these awards; without sponsorship, these International Awards would not be possible.
Dext provides accounting automation for Accountants, Bookkeepers, and ProAdvisors. Dext has one of the most extensive global online accounting bookkeeping and advisor communities.
Intuit QuickBooks and the QuickBooks ProAdvisor Program*** have participated in a sponsoring advisor capacity for the Insightful Accountant ProAdvisor Awards every year since their inception. QuickBooks® and QuickBooks ProAdvisor® are registered trademarks of Intuit, Inc. of Mountain View, California, used with permission.
About the Insightful Accountant ProAdvisor Awards
Since its inception, Insightful Accountant has been the awarding entity and administrator for the ProAdvisor Awards Program, which recognizes the best QuickBooks ProAdvisors® worldwide.
Applicants for these prestigious programs are ranked based on their performance across various criteria measuring everything from QuickBooks® knowledge to utilizing the best tools & partner apps within the QuickBooks ecosystem that contribute to solid practice growth.
Footnotes:
* - Dates and times, including those identified explicitly by an asterisk, are subject to change; changes will be published within Insightful Accountant approximately ten days before such scheduled or rescheduled dates/times.
**-Country equivalency is based upon the offerings Intuit makes available to accountants, bookkeepers, and business advisors within each country or Intuit Region. For example, in a country like South Africa, even though Accountants can sign up to become ProAdvisors to access QBO-Accountant, it doesn't offer (at the time this disclosure was written) QuickBooks' ProAdvisor Certification' but does offer QuickBooks Online Accountant Certification and various supporting courses.
*** - Insightful Accountant actively monitors such available offerings during the nomination and application process to determine candidate qualification and equivalency and will always coordinate with Intuit officials at the appropriate QuickBooks ProAdvisor Program should questions arise.
QuickBooks® and QuickBooks ProAdvisor® are registered trademarks of Intuit, Inc. of Mountain View, California, used with permission.