Get Ready for the Fast Future and Future Trends Workshop
4.00 Credits
Member Price $175
Non-Member Price $225
Overview
Recent research says that the business environment for CPAs and their clients will be characterized by “unprecedented, massive and highly accelerated change” through 2025. To thrive in this new age of hyper-change and growing uncertainty, it is now an imperative to learn a new competency-how to accurately anticipate the future. Predicting the future based on The Anticipatory OrganizationT Model created by Daniel Burrus and Burrus Research. This session does not just highlight the latest trends but brings in examples of the trends and how firms are leveraging these to find new service opportunities.
Highlights
- Future trends and insights
- Strategic Thinking
- Accelerating growth by identifying high leverage opportunities
- Innovation and creativity
- Problem solving
Prerequisites
Participants should have had some management or leadership experience
Designed For
All CPAs and Finance / Accounting Professionals
Objectives
- Understand the major forces of change in the business and firm environment (based on the latest research by Burrus Research) based on Hard Trends / Certainties around Technology and Demographics, and Regulations that are driving change in the accounting profession
- Develop insights and opportunities around the major technologies (A.I., Blockchain, Big Data) and their implications for participants, their firms and clients and how to keep them in focus in the future
- Gain a positive view about the future and development of opportunities for the firms to consider at both an everyday level and game-changing level
- Understand the critical skills and competencies CPAs will need for a future in an age of automation and machines
Leader(s):
Leader Bios
Barry Payne, Director of Business Development, AICPA
Barry Payne is Director of Management Accounting for the AICPA in Durham, North Carolina. A U.K. national and a chartered accountant, Payne speaks to and meets with finance leaders to understand their priorities and challenges. Through his work with the CIMA, Payne has visited companies in 45 different countries and led CIMA’s relationships with organizations such as Nestle, Pepsi and KPMG. He is now working with CFOs to maximize the value of CPAs and CGMAs working in business and is looking forward to gaining some insights from various state CFOs and controllers.
Non-Member Price $225
Member Price $175