IFAC launches new webpage "Professional Accountants as Business Leaders and Valuable Partners"
Accounting is a great path to a successful career in business or the public sector. Professional accountants in business perform a variety of financial and commercial functions. The professional qualification of an accountant lays the foundation for building successful organizations.
Digital transformation and the spread of corporate sustainability principles around the world are also providing professional accountants with the opportunity to play a more strategic and central role in their organizations than ever before.
IFAC's new resource book, Professional Accountants as Business Leaders and Valued Partners, looks at how professional accountants can become future-ready, data-savvy, and sustainable leaders. These materials are designed to help you understand and navigate the challenges and opportunities in a variety of roles as financial and business leaders, risk managers and analysts, as well as in broader commercial roles, including procurement and supply chain management.
The new collection of resources consists of sections:
- Implementing sustainability principles in business
- Future Ready CFO and Finance Function
- Data and digitalization
- Case studies from companies around the world including Olam Agri, Reliance Industries, Standard Chartered Bank, Sime Darby Berhad, OMRON, Prudential Financial, Pakistan International Airlines and more
