CPAmerica – Get Ready for the Fast Future and Future Trends Workshop
Description
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 Organization™ 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.
Learning 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
Major Topics
Future trends and insights
Strategic Thinking
Accelerating growth by identifying high leverage opportunities
Innovation and creativity
Problem solving
Provider
Business Learning Institute
Course Level
Intermediate
Professional Area of Focus
Business & Industry
Accounting & Auditing
T Shaped Professional Leadership
T Shaped Professional Strategic and Critical Thinking
CPE Field of Study
Business Management & Organization
1.5
Who Should Attend
All CPAs and Finance / Accounting Professionals
Instructor(s)
Tom Hood
Prerequisites
Participants should have had some management or leadership experience
