Chartered Accountants Global Update

Episode 15 of Chartered Accountants Global Update is out now. It covers young leaders, the future of the profession and the difference one Chartered Accountant can make. Next stop, Cape Town This November, the One Young World Summit returns to Africa for the first time since 2013. As South Africa marks 50 years since the Soweto Youth Uprising, the Summit will celebrate young leaders shaping the fu...

Global Update Episode 15: Financial abuse, pilates in Cayman and the accountant with a million followers Episode 15 of Chartered Accountants Global Update is out now. Here’s what’s inside. A playbook for spotting financial abuse CA ANZ has launched a Financial Abuse Playbook to help accountants identify, prevent and respond to financial abuse. It can look like coercive control, elder abuse or the...

Episode 14 of Season 2 is a bit of a milestone - this is the 101st podcast episode we've published, so it is, in fact, Episode 101! To mark the milestone we borrowed from Orwell’s Room 101 and banished a few workplace villains: merged cells, meetings that should have been emails, and the last-minute shoebox of receipts. Here’s what made the cut instead. Sustainability at the heart of strategy...

In this episode, we cover two important conversations taking place online this month and two new diplomas to help you build the skills the profession needs next. Helping women CAs thrive in midlife Perimenopause and menopause can affect women’s health, confidence and careers, often just as leadership roles and caring responsibilities grow. On 29 October, a free webinar, Women Accountants in Midlif...

This month is all about purpose-led careers. We sit down with a Chartered Accountant whose path has taken her from consulting to Ethiopia to impact investing, and we introduce the six delegates representing our profession at One Young World 2026 in Cape Town. Difference Makers Discuss: Aisling McCaffrey on the forks in the road that shaped her career 📅 Thursday 15 October 2026 | 6:00pm to 6:30pm...

Beyond the Numbers: Sustainability, Digital Leadership and Healthy Firms In this episode of Chartered Accountants Global Update, we cover three developments that are asking the profession to look beyond the traditional numbers. A voluntary standard with global reach In July, the European Commission adopted a proposed voluntary sustainability reporting standard. It is for companies that don't...

Difference Makers Discuss – Kingsley Aikins – Why your next opportunity is hiding in your weakest connection Ask most people to describe their network and they will describe their friends, their family and a handful of close colleagues. Kingsley Aikins calls that the inner concentric ring, and he argues it is the least useful part of your network. The opportunities sit further out, among the loose...

What Six Difference Makers Can Teach Every Chartered Accountant On Friday the 25th of September, Chartered Accountants Worldwide is hosting Difference Makers Discuss: Best of Season 4, a free one hour broadcast hosted by Sinead Donovan that brings together six standout conversations from across the year. The stories range from entrepreneurship to sport to social enterprise, but they all point to t...

Four Events Worth Your Calendar Space This Autumn If you're a chartered accountant trying to keep pace with where the profession is heading, the next few weeks bring a genuinely useful cluster of events, on sustainability, ethics, and the broader question of what transformation means for finance leadership. First up, Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand continues its CA Sustainabil...

Change rarely announces itself politely. It shows up as a career crossroads, a new technology, or a shift in what clients and the public expect of us. Two recent pieces from Chartered Accountants Worldwide look at change from very different angles, but land on the same conclusion: the profession's real strength has never been in the tools we use. It is in the judgment we bring to them. A care...

AI Agents, Insider Trading, and the Fight Against Greenwashing The profession is facing three fast moving fronts at once, and each one comes back to the same core skill: judgment. Chartered Accountants Worldwide, working with member institutes and Ipsos, has opened wave two of its global study on AI and the future of the profession. Wave one set the baseline, and this round digs into how attitudes...

Trust in Transition: Stablecoins and Climate Risk Reporting Two very different stories made headlines in the accounting world recently, and together they say something important about where the profession is heading. The first is about stablecoins. They have moved from a niche corner of crypto into serious policy conversations, yet some fundamental questions remain unanswered. Should a stablecoin...

Trust has always been the currency of the accounting profession, and this month's stories show just how much that idea is being tested and reinforced at the same time. First up is a new paper from Chartered Accountants Worldwide on artificial intelligence and trust in the profession. Its central message is refreshingly clear: no matter how advanced the tool, responsibility for professional wo...

Episode 3 of Chartered Accountants Global Update is out, and it's a packed one. Host Olivia brings listeners a mix of AI, sustainability, and events worth marking in the diary. First up is a call to action. Chartered Accountants Worldwide, alongside its network of member institutes and research firm Ipsos, has launched Wave 2 of its global study on AI and the future of the profession. It buil...

Season two continues with an episode that swings from a friendly run through the City of London to a genuine warning about AI governance, then zooms out to the pressures facing the profession worldwide. It opens on the Standard Chartered Great City Race, where twenty ICAEW colleagues joined more than five thousand runners for the annual five kilometre event through London. The real story wasn&apos...

Season 2 kicks off with three stories that, on the surface, look unrelated: an event about industrial revolutions, a piece on carers, and one on school leavers. But they all circle the same idea, so here's the post. Chartered Accountants Global Update returns for season two, and the opening episode makes the case that the profession is quietly redefining what "value" even means. The...

Fifty episodes in, we pause to look back at the very best of season one: the people, the numbers, and the stories that defined a year in the life of the world's Chartered Accountancy community. We revisit Catriona Jennings, the Chartered Accountant turned Olympian and record-holding ultra-runner; Manuel Rodriguez, building an agricultural microeconomy in Mozambique that supports tens of thous...

Trust, Technology and the Questions Every Business Should Be Asking Right Now Three stories crossed our desk this month, and although they look unrelated at first glance, they all circle back to the same question: as technology and global ways of working accelerate, what actually earns trust? Governance will define the winners of the AI era In a recent piece for Chartered Accountants Worldwide, Fa...

AI and the future of the profession: Have your say in Wave 2 Chartered Accountants Worldwide, together with our member institutes and Ipsos, has launched the second wave of our global research study into how AI is reshaping the Chartered Accountancy profession. We need your input to make it count. What the study covers Building on Wave 1 , this survey tracks how member perspectives are shifting ac...

Is your business ready for the summer remote working rush? International remote working is on the rise — and so are the risks. Here is what finance and HR professionals need to know before they approve the next cross-border request. Every summer, the same requests land on desks across the globe. An employee wants to work remotely from another country for a few weeks. It feels low-risk. The contrac...

The latest episode of the Chartered Accountants Global Update brings together three topics that are generating serious conversation across the global finance profession: the compliance risks hidden inside cross-border remote working, the growing threat of AI-enabled fraud, and the talent opportunity that social mobility represents. Here is a quick overview of what we covered. Remote working across...

We are excited to unveil the newly redesigned Chartered Accountants Worldwide website – a modern digital platform created to better connect, inform and inspire our global community of Chartered Accountants. Designed around the needs of today's profession, the new site offers easier navigation, richer content and improved access to thought leadership, insights and resources from across our wor...

Six Chartered Accountants. Six remarkable stories. Season 4 of Chartered Accountants Worldwide's flagship webinar series brought together six remarkable people from across the globe. An Olympian and world record holder. A social enterprise pioneer in rural Mozambique. A tech founder who built for students without fast internet or expensive laptops. A networking expert who once found networkin...

Connecting people, and why AI is an opportunity not a threat In the Season 4 finale of Difference Makers Discuss, Aster Thackery joins host Sinead Donovan to explore what it means when connecting people is your greatest professional skill. Her story spans trade promotion, the Italian Trade Agency, and building a 2,000-strong community in southeast London from scratch. We also dig into a new positi...

Why Good Work Isn’t Enough Anymore There’s a familiar piece of career advice many professionals still hear: keep your head down, work hard, and your efforts will speak for themselves. According to networking expert Kingsley Aikins, that advice is badly outdated. In a recent discussion featured by Chartered Accountants Worldwide, Aikins argues that “good work does not speak — people do.” In today’s...