Foresight: Reimagining the profession
Leveraging opportunities in a time of widespread change requires a significant shift in mindset, skills and positioning on the part of the accounting profession. Learn more about the Foresight initiative.
Foresight: The CPA Podcast
Season 5 dives into the emerging and developing issues and the fundamental shifts that will impact our workplaces and the accounting profession for the next five to ten years.
Season 4 answers the question, “what keeps you up at night?” from a CPA’s perspective, and explores what it means to be resilient in uncertain times.
Season 3 looks to answer questions like whether sustainability is an added burden or new opportunity, who should be responsible for it and whether the CPA can wait before incorporating sustainability into their practice.
Trust and Ethics
As ethical leaders and trusted advisors, CPAs rely on professional skills, values, ethics and attitudes to serve their organizations and clients. Learn how complexity in the professional environment, digital disruption, and mis/disinformation can impact your work.
The accountancy profession is evolving to address changing stakeholder needs while continuing to meet public interest responsibilities. Get practical guidance on ethical decision-making as a professional accountant, professional accountancy organization, educator or employer.
Fake news. Misinformation. Bias. These unfortunate realities create opportunities and challenges for accountants responsible for providing reliable and trustworthy information to their clients.
Data Governance
Today’s digital economy creates new demands on CPAs. Our article series on mastering data will indulge your curiosity and help you set a foundation to becoming a data expert in your organization.
Technological change is happening at breakneck speed. Global information is amassing, causing a huge surge in data. For CPAs, it’s a double-edged sword.
The explosion of data through the global economy creates challenges and opportunities for professional accountants and others who are being called on to oversee, manage, and measure the value of data.
Value Creation
How can CPAs play leadership roles in strategic decisions about future value creation challenges? We explore this and other questions in our primer.
Learn about the many ways that data can enable value streams in your organization and explore seven different answers to the question, “What Is Your Data Worth?”.
Explore how CPAs can support their organization’s business decisions by designing modelling approaches that incorporate expectations about the future and help organizations anticipate and evaluate different financial and non-financial outcomes and impacts.