Chartered Accountants Global Update

This podcast is taken from the FinBiz2030 Recover Refocus Rebuild webinar hosted by Badai Yuda Pratama.  The guest speaker is Prakash Koirala,  Founder, FINLIT Nepal, One Young World Ambassador In 2017 Koirala set up Finlit Nepal to teach basic personal finance to low-income and vulnerable communities, helping to reduce poverty. Finlit Nepal works with governments, companies and neighbourhood grou...

This podcast is taken from the FinBiz2030 Recover Refocus Rebuild webinar hosted by Badai Yuda Pratama.  For nearly 2 years, lives all over the world have been ruled by the pandemic. It has challenged and changed the way we operate in business, restricted how we travel on a daily basis and ultimately impacted every inch of our personal lives. Where protection and resilience were key in 2020, 2021...

As the world emerges from the pandemic, who will be trusted to support business recovery and to build the sustainable, resilient economies we need? Chartered Accountants Worldwide  partnered with Edelman research to understand the views of over 1,000 international business leaders and the role that they expect the finance and business profession to play in shaping the future. The speakers consider...

As the world emerges from the pandemic, who will be trusted to support business recovery and to build the sustainable, resilient economies we need? Chartered Accountants Worldwide  partnered with Edelman research to understand the views of over 1,000 international business leaders and the role that they expect the finance and business profession to play in shaping the future. This podcast features...

More than nine out of ten Chartered Accountants and finance professionals believe accountants have an important role to play in climate change, and there is broad optimism within the profession about the measures agreed during the recent COP26 summit. However, confidence in political and business leaders to deliver on the necessary change is considerably lower, and it seems unlikely many organisat...

More than nine out of ten Chartered Accountants and finance professionals believe accountants have an important role to play in climate change, and there is broad optimism within the profession about the measures agreed during the recent COP26 summit. However, confidence in political and business leaders to deliver on the necessary change is considerably lower, and it seems unlikely many organisat...

More than nine out of ten Chartered Accountants and finance professionals believe accountants have an important role to play in climate change, and there is broad optimism within the profession about the measures agreed during the recent COP26 summit. However, confidence in political and business leaders to deliver on the necessary change is considerably lower, and it seems unlikely many organisat...

More than nine out of ten Chartered Accountants and finance professionals believe accountants have an important role to play in climate change, and there is broad optimism within the profession about the measures agreed during the recent COP26 summit. However, confidence in political and business leaders to deliver on the necessary change is considerably lower, and it seems unlikely many organisat...

We'd like to introduce a new podcast from Chartered Accountants Worldwide. It's called "Difference Makers Podcast" and it's a series that celebrates the lives and work of people who have transformed communities, businesses, and the wider world, making a real difference in the lives of others. We call them “Difference Makers”.  Oh, and by the way… they are all Chartered Acc...

In this episode, Professor Ndubuisi Ekekwe, a globally successful inventor, engineer, author, entrepreneur and Harvard Business Review contributor, speaks passionately about ‘Resilience, Sustainability and Entrepreneurship’.   Professor Ekekwe outlined the elements required to build capabilities and overcome challenges in our society as  Knowledge, Entrepreneurial Capitalism, Capital, Land and Lab...

In this episode, Girish Ananthanarayanan, COO of the education non-profit Peepul, talks about the importance of building trust for delivering good and effective leadership. “Trust that your team has entrusted themselves with you, and trust that they are trying their best. Have high expectations of them, but also support them in their journey, which may look different from yours,” Girish says. “Nob...

In this episode, Innandya Irawan, co-founder of CarbonEthics, talks about how important it is for leaders to “choose to be kind instead of to be right”. This calls for a level of self-awareness, so that leaders can have open discussions with their team. “Try not to scold if they make mistakes but be honest with them and let them have ownership, not just accountability. Let them be part of a decisi...

In this episde Hauwa Ojeifo. Mental Health Coach & founder of Nigeria’s first mental health helpline, speaks about how resilience is a muscle - the more you use it, the stronger it gets. Hauwa recalls her time working in the finance industry.  At the time, the culture in the industry was that stress was something that you should wear as a badge of honour.  She felt that in order to progress sh...

In this episode Monica Moisin, a lawyer and founder of the Cultural Intellectual Property Rights Initiative, talks about the importance of integrity and values.  Leadership isn’t just about accomplishments but about setting a path for others to follow.  She says that: “Leadership is not only about getting things done, but it’s also about creating a vision for where we want to get. The vision is ex...

In this episode Nomindari speaks about how in Mongolia the banking sector has been a driver for change, embarking on a sustainable finance journey which resulted in the adoption of a national sustainable finance strategy and principles across the sector.  She also outlined how the banking sector has inspired other business communities in the country. Nomindari’s Top Tips: sustainability can be dri...

In this episode, Selva Montealegre, Diversity and Inclusion at AB InBev, takes forward the theme of accountability.  She advises the audience to form a network of people who share similar values. In her case, she is part of a peer group that removes anyone who isn’t living up to the collective standards and values. “That will help you to make yourself and the people around you accountable,” she sa...

In this episode Sheree Atcheson explains what it means to be an actionable ally.  An ally is someone who actively, and proactively, works to promote a culture of inclusion that benefits – and prevents harm to – everyone as a whole. Being an ally is intersectional: white women can be allies to people of colour, heterosexuals can be allies to the LGBT+ community, able-bodied people can be allies of...

This episode features Dr Raghu Kiran Appasani. Psychiatrist, Neuroscientist, Mental Health Advocate.  In this podcast Dr Appasani speaks about how we can build resilience through the power of community. Uncertainty, anxiety, crisis, confusion: these are words many of us have been wrestling with in our daily lives as the pandemic has played out. The “Getting Your Mind Right” webinar, from which thi...

In this podcast Farwiza Farhan, a conservation activist and campaigner working in Sumatra, described her personal journey which grew from a love of nature but then developed into anger at how people and businesses were damaging the environment in the name of profit. However this subsequently evolved as she understood the importance of acknowledging other people’s points of view. “Throughout the ye...

Marc Alain Boucicault is founder of Banj, the first and biggest entrepreneurship hub of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. In this podcast you'll hear Marc Alain outline the ingredients needed for resilient, sustainable and innovative ecosystems. Marc Alain shared 3 things he wished he knew sooner on his entrepreneurial journey: Start building networks early. Find a great idea and build it sustainably by...

In this episode, Ravi Abeywardana, Technical Director, Climate Disclosure Standards Board speaks about how to ensure climate sustainability commitments are embedded within an organisation and not simply ‘corporate green-washing’. It’s easy to see that accountants have all the skills to support climate action within the companies we operate in; doing what we do best, challenging and testing positio...

In this podcast Caroline McGroary explains how you have the power to start an initiative and to make a real difference in your community, for example by helping to boost the financial literacy. Caroline tells us about the time she spent in Saudi Arabia working to improve the financial literacy of women. Staggeringly, over 60% of Saudi women don’t have bank accounts. This contributes towards issues...

Jonny Jacobs CA, Financial Director EMEA at Starbucks, is a passionate advocate for positive mental health.  In this podcast he speaks openly about his own struggles with mental health in his teens and talked about the importance of acknowledging challenges people may be experiencing in their lives.  Mental health is not necessarily a subject that finance people often talk about, but after being a...

Gareth Parkin, CFO and Senior Vice President at Messer Americas, explains the business case for doing good. Gareth began by examining the fundamental role of deploying capital and the need to move on and think about organisational portfolios and how to increase spend on sustainable objectives. Gareth described his own experience and how ESG is now an embedded part of his organisation’s credit rati...