Chartered Accountants Global Update

Episodes

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  Episode 16: Big ideas & Young Dream Radiators 05.11.2026 6m

  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 future. Chartered Accountants Worldwide is proud to send another group of young Chartered Accountan...
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  Episode 15: Financial abuse, pilates in Cayman and the accountant with a million followers 29.10.2026 7m

  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 misuse of financial authority, and accountants are often among the first to see the warning signs...
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  Episode 14: People, purpose and progress 22.10.2026 8m

  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 Kreston Reeves, a UK firm with over 200 years of history, became a certified B Corp after reflecting ...
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  Episode 13: Wellbeing, ethics and two new diplomas for your next step 15.10.2026 7m

  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 Midlife and Wellbeing: Helping Women CAs Thrive, brings this conversation into the open. The panel incl...
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  Episode 12: Forks in the road, and the next generation of difference makers 08.10.2026 7m

  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 BST | Online | Free Every career has its crossroads. The safe option or the interesting one? Follo...
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  Episode 11: Beyond the Numbers: Sustainability, Digital Leadership and Healthy Firms 02.10.2026 8m

  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 have to report under the EU's main sustainability rules, the CSRD. The standard builds on EFRAG's volu...
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  Episode 10: Why your next opportunity is hiding in your weakest connection 25.09.2026 7m

  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 associations and the people you have not spoken to in three years. In this episode, Kingsley joi...
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  Episode 9: What Six Difference Makers Can Teach Every Chartered Accountant 16.09.2026 6m

  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 the same conclusion. The skills that create lasting impact are the ones that are hardest to measur...
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  Episode 8: Four Events Worth Your Calendar Space This Autumn 10.09.2026 6m

  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 Sustainability Community webinar series on 22 September. Running since 2023, it's built for finance professionals...
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  Episode 7: Systems, Trust, and the Judgment That Ties Them Together 03.09.2026 7m

  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 career built on systems thinking Kate van der Merwe's path into the profession does not follow a predictab...
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  Episode 6: AI Agents, Insider Trading, and the Fight Against Greenwashing 27.08.2026 6m

  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 are shifting on traditional AI, generative AI, and agentic AI, the systems that carry out tasks ...
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  Episode 5: Trust in Transition: Stablecoins and Climate Risk Reporting 21.08.2026 7m

  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 sit on the balance sheet as cash, an intangible asset, or something else entirely? The answer mat...
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  Episode 4: AI, sustainability and trust: three things worth your attention 13.08.2026 6m

  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 work always rests with the Chartered Accountant. The paper sets out five core principles, human accounta...
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  AI study, sustainability, and two conferences to watch 06.08.2026 6m

  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 builds on Wave 1 and digs into how traditional AI, generative AI, and now agentic AI are reshaping the rol...
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  Episode 2: Guardrails and Global Reach 30.07.2026 6m

  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't the running, though. Afterwards, Sarah Prescott, who chairs the CAW taskforce for wellbeing, equali...
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  Episode 1: AI, sustainability, energy, and the future of accounting. Are you ready for the 5th Industrial Revolution? 23.07.2026 5m

  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 first thread comes from an upcoming CAW Network USA session, Beyond Accounting: The Coming of the 5th Industria...
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  Episode 50: Season One in Review: Trust, AI, and a Confession 16.07.2026 12m

  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 thousands of farmers; Liswaniso Namatama in Lusaka, who gave us the defining quote of the season, "Audit is...
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  Episode 49: Trust, Technology and the Questions Every Business Should Be Asking Right Now 09.07.2026 5m

  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, Fauzia Safdar Khan, Senior Director for Sustainability and Climate at Crowe Pakistan, makes a case ...
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  Episode 48: AI and the future of the profession: Have your say in Wave 2 01.07.2026 3m

  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 across three areas of AI adoption: traditional AI, generative AI and agentic AI. The findings will s...
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  Episode 47: Is your business ready for the summer remote working rush? 24.06.2026 8m

  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 contract stays the same, the salary does not change, and in the UAE, there is no personal income tax to ...