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GBD103. (US Panel) Managing the local impact of a global disruption. Apr 01, 2020

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"Choose things you've never done before and hopefully, WHEN we come out at the other end, we'll be better off for it."

This is the first of three special episodes discussing the impact on businesses of coronavirus. It's the audio recording from one of our recent series of live webcast Q&As, each one with a panel of accounting and finance experts from a different part of the world. In this recording from March 27th, you'll hear a US regional perspective from four panellists: Jim Bourke (New York), Robin Thieme (Maryland), Les Nettleton (Louisiana) and Neeti Mehta (California).

TALKING POINTS.

What are some of the things that HAVEN'T needed to change? What made that possible?
What unexpected impacts have we seen?
What do we learn from what went before?
How to manage day-to-day volatility?
How do we make sure that our people know they're still valued?
What type of resources will help a distributed team?
What can we do to protect ourselves contractually in future?
What does a finance professional need to do now that's different to what went before?

RESOURCES.

AICPA coronavirus resource centre at www.aicpa.org/coronavirus
CIMA coronavirus resource centre at www.cimaglobal.com/coronavirus.

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The Voices. These conversations with expert guests are recorded by different members of the AICPA & CIMA team from our offices around the world. While the sound quality may vary, we hope that the insights will be consistently useful.

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GBD102. Coronavirus and Business Continuity Planning. Mar 25, 2020

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"This is a known risk. What has been UNKNOWN...is the quantification!".

Ashok Noah, CPA, CGMA, FCMA is Managing Director of CGMA Learning, Education and Development at the Association of International Certified Professional Accountants. Christina Kite is Vice President, Global Business Strategy & Analytics at Oracle. This is a recording of a recent AICPA webcast interview in which Ash and Chris discussed the critical issues that business leaders face during the coronavirus crisis. They took questions and shared practical suggestions to help business leaders manage these unique circumstances.

TALKING POINTS.

What are the critical issues that business leaders face right now in the midst of the coronavirus crisis?
How do they identify the key parts of their business most likely to be impacted?
Where do they start prioritising the steps they need to take to mitigate these risks?

RESOURCES.

AICPA coronavirus resource centre at www.aicpa.org/coronavirus
CIMA coronavirus resource centre at www.cimaglobal.com/coronavirus.

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GBD101. Coronavirus 101. We Need To Talk About COVID-19. Mar 19, 2020

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"Who knew that this is where we'd be? But this IS where we are".

We've put our pre-recorded interviews on hold for a while to concentrate on what's happening around us right now. We're talking about the coronavirus, sharing the AICPA & CIMA's official guidance, and introducing our new online resource centres offering support to our professional community across the world. We also look at our calendar of coronavirus-related webcasts coming up between now and the end of March 2020.

TALKING POINTS.

The Association of International Certified Professional Accountants' guidance for members.
How we are supporting and enabling our professional community with new online learning resources and virtual events?
Where YOU can watch or listen to new webinars, podcasts and livestreams which put their finger directly on the pulse of remote service delivery, business impact and professional and personal resilience.
The impact on AICPA & CIMA events worldwide.

RESOURCES.

AICPA coronavirus resource centre at www.aicpa.org/coronavirus
CIMA coronavirus resource centre at www.cimaglobal.com/coronavirus.
Students can find exam information at MyCIMA.
Conference and event queries service@aicpa.org.

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A Very Special Guest for Ep.100. Mar 11, 2020

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I thought, "Right! THERE'S something for me to sign up to!".

(#100). For this milestone episode, we do something we've never done before: we interview one of our listeners. There's nothing more important than our audience so we thought it's time to highlight YOU! After we contacted many of those from around the world who'd emailed us since our show launched at AICPA ENGAGE 2018 conference in Las Vegas, we were delighted to arrange this fun and illuminating conversation with a listener all the way across the Atlantic - in the English city of Leeds.

TALKING POINTS.

How did you discover the podcast?
Why do you listen?
What do you like about it?

RESOURCES.

Jason listens to podcasts using Podcast Republic.
Discover some of our other AICPA & CIMA shows like these from Journal of Accountancy, Financial Management, Small Firms Philosophy, Small Biz Brunch and other audio here.

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ABOUT OUR PODCAST

The Voices. These conversations with expert guests are recorded by different members of the AICPA & CIMA team from our offices around the world. While the sound quality may vary, the insights will always be consistently useful.

Hear more. Get our shows every week automatically and free. Share them easily with colleagues and friends by using the icons on your app or media player.

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Building Trust In A Digital Age. With Allister Manson of Opus Restructuring LLP Mar 04, 2020

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"Clearly, the companies that respond the quickest are the ones that are going to be most TRUSTED, most liked by their customer base".

(#99). Accounting and finance professionals work with numbers as well as people, and sometimes the situation with the numbers can cause difficult, stressful conversations. We hear from Allister Manson of Opus Restructuring LLP about tech, trust and transparency. He discusses how business and accounting professionals are integral to building trust – not just trust in financial information, but also trust in the integrity of the code and in the collection, retention and security of our data and personal information.

TALKING POINTS.

How does an accountant or an auditor maintain the trust of a client in stressful situations?
When trying to do the best for everyone involved, how do you make this clear when things can get difficult?
How does one build trust when offering or supporting a service or technology that's new?

OUR GUEST.

Allister Manson is a qualified chartered accountant and insolvency practitioner who heads the dedicated technology division for Opus Restructuring LLP, a UK-based national corporate services practice.

Currently the country's only technology specialist Insolvency Practitioner (IP), he has 20 years insolvency and restructuring experience, supporting businesses from start-ups to established software, hardware and tech service providers.

Allister previously worked at PwC, Smith & Williamson, and KPMG in the Cayman Islands. With tech experience that also comes from 5 years' managing and advising Fintech companies in Latin America, he also supports up-and-coming tech businesses as a mentor at the Startupbootcamp. Connect with him on LinkedIn.

RESOURCES.

Bookmark the AICPA Technology Resource hub at https://www.aicpa.org/technology
Skill up with 'trust'-related material on the CGMA Store
See more Human Intelligence Learning Programmes and Trust-related resources on the AICPA store website.

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Blockchain & Crypto Assets with Amy Vetter and Ron Quaranta Feb 26, 2020

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"It'll feed into other functions that the accounting practitioner NEEDS in what we're calling the 'blockchain world' . It's moving pretty fast."

(#98) How will blockchain introduce and impact firms of all sizes? Introduced by Kristen Hughes, an Associate Director of Technology at AICPA & CIMA, this recording features a conversation between Amy Vetter and Ron Quaranta of the Wall Street Blockchain Alliance. They discuss the adoption and impact of blockchain and cryptoassets.

OUR GUESTS.

Technologist and author Amy Vetter is a CEO who heads The B3 Method® Institute. She is a keynote speaker and Host of the Breaking Beliefs podcast. Connect with her on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/amyvettercpa.

Ron Quaranta is an advisor, author, entrepreneur, speaker and chairperson of the Wall Street Blockchain Alliance. He can be reached at https://www.linkedin.com/in/ronquaranta/

LINKS

Bookmark the AICPA Technology Resource hub at https://www.aicpa.org/technology
Find out more about the Wall Street Blockchain Alliance at https://www.wsba.co/
Explore Amy Vetter's website at https://www.amyvetter.com/

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Strategic Thinking with Sil Garaventa of US Foods Feb 18, 2020

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"It's really important to not just develop a strategy and let it be. Make sure that you ACTIVATE that strategy."

(#97) Strategy. One word, many definitions, almost infinite possibilities. What is it? What makes it work? Where do you start? During her time here at the Association, Jennifer Gardner recorded this conversation with Sil Garaventa, Director of Sales Support for US Foods in North Carolina. This is a high-level exploration of strategy: when a company has resource limitations, the team has to make choices around where to focus. At the heart of it, that's strategy.

OUR GUEST.

With experience at US Foods, the AICPA and elsewhere, Sil Garaventa is a strategy consultant who helps tackle an organisation's most critical and challenging problems, defining strategic direction in a disrupted and rapidly changing business environment. He's a frequent speaker and facilitator on the topics of corporate strategy, strategic planning, and culture and engagement. Connect with him on LinkedIn.

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(Minisode) A Quick Word - We'd Like YOU to be in our 100th Episode Feb 12, 2020

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In mid March 2020 - just over a month's time - we will be recording our 100th episode. And we'd like YOU to be part of it, from wherever you are in the world.

LET'S TALK

Happy to take a few minutes for an online voice call? Email us here with the word "Podcast" in the Subject line. The email address is beyond.disruption@aicpa-cima.com .

We'll get in touch to arrange a quick online voice call at a time that suits you. It'd help to know things like

Which part of the world are you in?
What do you do for a living?
Why you listen to this podcast?
What topics and trends would you like us to be focusing on over the course of our NEXT 100 shows?

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2020 Vision. New Year, New Business Models with Kelly Mattarocci of TICH Feb 05, 2020

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"Everybody can work together to collaborate, innovate and move the organisation more and more towards AI with this new business model."

(#96) Talking AI with returning guest Kelly Mattarocci, a Texas-based Certified Public Accountant and a CGMA with expertise as a business strategist, innovator, and thought leader with over 20 year'C-Suite executive experience. She looks at new business visions for the new year and outlines some innovative but practical ways to incorporate AI. She helps answer the questions on all business owners' lips this January: where should our business go in the year ahead, how would it get there, and how could we plan to make this happen?

TALKING POINTS.

What SHOULD we be talking about when it comes to new styles of technology-ready business models?
How are they different from the traditional business model?
As CCPA follows on from GDPR, the compliance environment is changing rapidly so what are good practices for compliance, governance and risk-management?
A list of 8 elements which should form the basis of a useful '2020-ready' business model.
Where part does AI play?

OUR GUEST.

Kelly Mattarocci is founder and CEO of TICH. Based in Austin, Texas, she is described as a domain expert in the context of business, an innovator, and a thought leader. Her primary value-creation focus is embracing technology to expand peoples' abilities, which results in optimisation of both. She's also written for Finance Management magazine. Connect with Kelly on LinkedIn.

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GBD95 Rethinking Accounting Globally with Professor Nick McGuigan of MONASH Business School Jan 29, 2020

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"What I don't think we've realised ...is "How do you RE-IMAGINE accounting?"

(#95) Hear this boundary-nudging lecture delivered at AICPA & CIMA's London office, arranged and introduced by Ian Selby, our Vice President of Global Research and Development (Management Accounting). His guest speaker was Professor Nicholas McGuigan, visiting the UK just as the 2020 World Economic Forum Summit was beginning in Davos, Switzerland. Professor McGuigan's message is a powerful one. It touches on the reimagining of the accounting profession and unpacks new visions for how educators could transform the way they train tomorrow's finance professionals.

TALKING POINTS

Balancing what the world needs with what we're good at doing.
What happens when we're no longer accounting for money but for water?
How accountants could reimagine their own profession for the future.
The surprising influence of permaculture, garden design and environmental sustainability on the way we design businesses, cities, and entire economies.
The profound opportunities for real change in the way accounting educators train the next generation of accountants.

ABOUT OUR GUEST

Professor Nicholas McGuigan is Associate Professor at Monash Business School, a global speaker, and a co-instigator at The Accountability Institute. He works to create future‐orientated business education programs that focus on innovation, creativity and design thinking. Nick's special areas of interest spread across accounting research, creativity & innovation, learning and facilitation of accounting, business education, design thinking, pedagogical design & research, and permaculture. Connect with him on LinkedIn.

LINKS.

Read about the project and watch the trailer for 'Dating An Accountant: How Do You Measure Love?"
Browse the AICPA & CIMA's Sustainability resources.
Discover the Queering Accounting project behind the world's first accounting perfume.

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