In their roles as ethical leaders and trusted advisors, professional accountants rely on professional skills, values, ethics and attitudes to serve their organizations and clients. Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada (CPA Canada) and the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland (ICAS) are collaborating with IFAC to research and report on how complexity in the professional environment, digital disruption, and mis/disinformation impact the importance of professional skills and ethical leadership.

ICAS, IFAC and CPA Canada joined forces to deliver an exciting virtual workshop exploring how professional accountants (PAs) continue to add value in the digital world. The event was based around an exploratory paper that seeks to drive conversations about:

Target Audience: Preparers, Users, Advisors, and Auditors of Corporate Reports

Presenters:

• Stathis Gould: Director, Advocacy, International Federation of Accountants
• Chris Arnold: Head of SME/SMPs and Research, International Federation of Accountants
• Michael Bray: Director, In-Country Engagement, Interational Integrated Reporting Council
• Nigel Edwards:  Executive Director, Trinidad and Tobago Unit Trust Corporation

Danielle Supkis Cheek, CPA*, CFE, CVA

Danielle Supkis Cheek is the VP, Head of Analytics and AI at Caseware International. Danielle joins Caseware after being the VP of Strategy and Industry Relations at MindBridge.

Danielle earned her Bachelors from Rice University in Houston, TX, and her Master of Science in Accountancy from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, VA.

She is a Certified Public Account (CPA) in the State of Texas, a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), and a Certified Valuation Analyst (CVA).

Danielle sits on the Technology Experts Group for the International Ethics Standards Board and is the US Representative to the IFAC Small and Medium Practitioners Advisory Group (SMPAG). She is also on the AI Task Forces for Assurance Services Executive Committee (ASEC) and for Professional Ethics Executive Committee (PEEC). She is an at-large member of AICPA Council. She is a past Chair of the PCPS Technical Issues Committee and a past member of the Auditing Standards Board.

Danielle is an 8-time 40 under 40 by the CPA Practice Advisor and was the Houston CPA’s Society’s Distinguished Member to the Profession for 2019. She was also the first woman to receive the AICPA’s Outstanding Young CPA of the Year Award in Honor of Maximo in 2016 and is a 6-time Most Powerful Women in Accounting by CPA Practice Advisor and AICPA.

She is also part-time faculty at Rice University’s Jones School of Business teaching data analytics to the Masters of Accountancy (MAcc) students.

* Licensed only in Texas