The Greater Washington Society of CPAs (GWSCPA) serves the greater Washington, DC metropolitan area. In 1996 the GWSCPA became the first CPA society in the nation to expand membership opportunities to non-CPA financial professionals (Affiliate Members).  The GWSCPA Affiliate Category covers non-CPAs who are financial professionals working at a CPA firm or sole practitioner CPA and financial professionals in government, not-for-profit organizations and academia.

The active GWSCPA membership is drawn from a twenty-five mile radius from the White House - essentially DC, Montgomery & Prince Georges Counties in Maryland and Arlington, Alexandria, Falls Church and Fairfax Counties, as well as northern Prince William County in Virginia. Accounting firm professionals, not-for-profit financial professionals, government financial professionals, accounting and business faculty and students can become members.