Submissions from financial journalists across the country poured in swiftly for the NYSSCPA’s 2016 Excellence in Financial Journalism (EFJ) Awards, which seek to recognize outstanding business reporting—published or broadcast in 2015— that contributed to the public’s better understanding of business and financial topics.

Winners will be selected in eight categories, and entries are judged on four parameters: accuracy of reporting, readability, clarity and style, and effectiveness and impact.

For more than 30 years, the Society has held this event to acknowledge the important contribution that journalists make in holding those who control the government purse strings accountable, as well as to educate the public about the role that accounting and finance play in everyday American life. Past years’ competitions have awarded journalists from The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Crain’s New York Business, Forbes, Fortune, ProPublica, The New York Times and the Financial Times.

“Every year, when I judge entries, I find out about new issues or get a deeper look into an issue that is making headlines,” said Rumbidzai N. Bwerinofa-Petrozzello, president of the Society’s Queens/Brooklyn Chapter and an EFJ judge. “I have found that several stories that I have read have become relevant and helped me professionally.”

“The Excellence in Financial Journalism Awards is important because it allows people who work every day in the field—be it as reporters, columnists or beat writers—to be acknowledged for the fine effort they put forth. Often, the skills to translate technical information into words the public can understand goes unappreciated,” said Thomas P. Walpole, a judge during the 2015 EFJ Awards.

EFJ winners will be honored at an awards luncheon on May 6, from 11:30 a.m.–2 p.m., at Tribeca Grill, in New York City. The luncheon will feature a cocktail hour, lunch and a featured keynote speaker. Last year’s keynote was Sheila S. Coronel, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and dean of academic affairs at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, who is known for coauthoring a report that investigated the reporting, editing and fact-checking failures that led to the publication of Rolling Stone magazine’s retracted story that sought to investigate an alleged gang rape on the University of Virginia campus.

Tickets to this year’s luncheon are $35 and may be purchased at nysscpa.org.