2026 Top Advisor Awards Are Underway

 The 2026 Top Advisor Awards are underway. You can now Apply, or Nominate your favorite Advisor, for this year's awards.

The 2026 Top Advisor Awards

2026 sees the Insightful Accountant Top Advisor Awards available to more 'Advisors' than ever by recognizing a fourth group, the Top 25 Tax Advisors in addition to the Top 100 U.S. ProAdvisors, the Top 25 Up-n-coming ProAdvisors, and the Top 50 International ProAdvisors.

Insightful Accountant has also introduced a new centralized ‘Awards Portal. I like to think of this new portal as the 'Amazon' of our awards process. That one stop that allows individuals to apply for the various awards or nominate Advisors.

A single ‘Nomination form’ allows individuals to nominate their favorite Advisors regardless of the Award Group. The nomination period by third parties ends at 11:59 PM Pacific on December 9, 2025.

Advisors need not be nominated by someone else, or nominate themselves. They can 'Apply' directly from the Awards Portal. 

Applicants will have until 11:59 PM Pacific on March 3, 2026, to complete their formal applications, whether they were nominated by a third party or applied directly.

Applicants are not required to complete their applications in one sitting; they can supplement their applications on a come-and-go basis, allowing them to enter training and certifications as earned, or record apps as used (referred to vendors or implemented for clients).

Qualified applicants will appear on a ballot during a four-week voting period, starting approximately two weeks after the close of applications.

Award Qualification information is outlined in our Top Advisor Awards feature

Go HERE to Nominate or Apply for the 2026 Top Advisor Awards

2026 Award Program Sponsors

Sponsors are the lifeblood of these awards; without sponsors, the Top Advisor Awards would not be possible. We want to thank each of our 2026 Award Sponsors. 

You can find out more and support our 2026 Advisor Award sponsors by visiting our ProAdvisor Awards Sponsors webpage!

Top Advisor Awards Group Sponsor Version (3)

About Insightful Accountant’s Top Advisor 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.

With the 2026 incorporation of the Top Tax Advisors (who are not required to be ProAdvisors) into the overall awards program, the program is now referred to as the “Top Advisor Awards” since not all recipients may hold the title of ProAdvisor.

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. Tax Advisors will be held to similar standards based upon Intuit’s Tax-offering ecosystem.

Intuit, QuickBooks, and the QuickBooks ProAdvisor Program have participated in a sponsoring advisor capacity every year since the inception of the awards. (Insightful Accountant actively monitors the nomination and application process to determine candidate qualification and equivalency and coordinates with Intuit officials and the QuickBooks ProAdvisor Program should questions arise.)

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William Murphy

William (Bill) Murphy, better known as "Murph," is responsible for day-to-day technical content. Murph is an Advanced Certified ProAdvisor with over 30 years of QuickBooks consulting experience. He has more than 45 years of experience in Business, Finance and Public Accounting. For many years Murph was the “anchor” of the National Advisor Network’s online forum (now the Woodard forum) and three-time consecutive winner of the NAN Online MVP award. Murph has published numerous articles in industry publications and served as Technical Editor for Business Analysis with QuickBooks by Wiley Publishing.

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Topics from this blog: Top 100 ProAdvisor Insightful Accountant 2026 Awards Top 25 Up-n-coming ProAdvisor Top 50 International ProAdvisor Top 25 Tax Advisor