Creating and evolving our workplace – a vision for the future
The Future of Finance starts now. With the right insight and skills, we can be prepared to harness the dynamism and unpredictability of our future careers.
We have created this briefing as part of an 18-month global research project, exploring the future progress of the finance profession and its role in the wider organisational ecosystem. Through interactions with finance leaders, academics, and students, we examined and investigated the ambit of finance in a rapidly changing world, highlighting critical factors and the proficiencies necessary to our evolution and advancement as a profession.
Our conversations revolved around transformations that will shape the future of finance. Thus, we explored our participants’ lived experiences with digitalisation, sustainability, and workplace innovation practices. In this report, AICPA® & CIMA®, together as the Association of International Certified Professional Accountants, aim to create a composite picture of the finance function of the future. With more than 698,000 members, students, and engaged professionals living in 188 countries and territories, we are uniquely positioned to interact with global stakeholders to investigate, analyse, and document how the finance function is changing.
This comprehensive global research initiative brings together evidence from interviews, roundtables, and surveys to offer insight into the evolution of our role in organisations and society. Thus, it illustrates our view on how the finance profession will develop in the future and lead the way to improving organisations and their contributions.
