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PAIB Advisory Group Insights
The PAIB Advisory Group, a global group of business and finance leaders, considers key trends impacting businesses and public sector organizations and their professional accountants.
Accountancy provides an excellent pathway to a rewarding career in business or the public sector. Professional accountants in business fulfill a variety of finance and commercial-facing roles. Their professional accountancy designation provides the foundation for enabling successful organizations.
The digital and sustainability transformations of organizations globally also provide opportunities for professional accountants to be more strategic and central to their organizations than ever before.
To elevate their contribution as value partners, professional accountants must focus on activities and actions that enable value creation for organizations, customers, society, and other stakeholders. This involves leading or enabling digitalization and transformation initiatives, as well as ensuring sustainability objectives are integrated in and aligned to business priorities and decisions.
This collection of materials explores how professional accountants can be future ready, data-savvy leaders who drive sustainability. They aim to help in understanding and navigating challenges and opportunities across various roles as finance and business leaders, risk managers and analysts, and in broader commercial roles including in procurement and supply chain management.
Mainstreaming Sustainability in Business
Future-Ready CFO and Finance Function
Data and Digitalization
March 4, 2022 | CPA Canada
September 26, 2019 | Stathis Gould
Case Studies
- The Role of the Sustainability Finance Team in Driving Impact at Olam Agri
- Achieving Net Zero C02 Emissions at Reliance Industries
- Sustainability and the CFO: Standard Chartered Bank Perspectives
- OMRON – Creating Value through Integrated Reporting
- Sime Darby Berhad - Journey in Integrated Reporting
- Bank Pembangunan Malaysia Berhad (BPMB) - Rethinking Value Creation
- Maersk - Future of the CFO and Finance Function
- Pakistan International Airlines - Future of the CFO & Finance Function
- AngloGold Ashanti - The Role of Finance in Value Creation and Integrated Reporting
- ABN AMRO – Integrated Thinking, Reporting & Impact
- Finance Forward – Prudential Financial
- CFO Perspectives on the Finance Function Journey: Maritime Singapore
- CFO Perspectives on the Finance Function Journey: Standard Chartered
- Plugging the Net-Zero Information Gap: Climate Week 2021
- Creating Value in a Climate Emergency: Climate Week 2020
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