Systems Thinking for CPAs 2024
2.00 Credits
Member Price $89
Non-Member Price $119
Overview
Learn how to employ systems thinking to disentangle complexities, recognize and interpret patterns and diagnose problems. Understand concepts such as interconnectedness, synthesis, and emergence and use this understanding to foresee risks and build collaborative teams. Learn systems mapping, causality, and feedback loops to be able to assess culture more accurately, support good group decision-making, and bolster professional skepticism. Systems thinking will help you develop deeper insights into complex problems and understand how changes in policies, procedures and controls affect behavior.
Highlights
- Pattern recognition and interconnectedness
- Foresight
- Emergence
- Complexity
- System mapping
Prerequisites
None
Designed For
Designed for analysts, auditors, attorneys, CPAs, governance and compliance professionals, and those working in the IT, HR, legal, and medical professions as well as executives, policymakers and other decision-makers interested in understanding systems thinking
Objectives
- Identify three strategies of system mapping
- Recognize two foresight strategies
- Determine two approaches for recognizing emerging patterns
Preparation
None
Leader(s):
Leader Bios
Toby Groves, Owner, Groves Research and Consulting
Toby Groves is a cognitive scientist and speaker on expert judgment and critical thinking, known for delivering unconventional talks that engage audiences in dramatic, live experiments. He teaches professionals how to tap hidden networks that maximixe their powers of sound reasoning. A popular speaker amongst government, academics and private organizations, Groves serves professionals that provide society’s most critical services including audit, intelligence, investigative, medical, financial and legal communities.
Trained in a unique combination of forensic psychology and forensic accounting, Groves is a doctoral level researcher in cognitive psychology. His commentary and stories have been featured on media outlets such as NPR, numerous professional journals, and is studied by leading researchers and business schools around the world.
Non-Member Price $119
Member Price $89