The career sustainability of accountants: a profession in transition

Abstract

In the past you had those defined roles, CFO, trainee accountant, which were there for decades, they didn’t change. Now we’re in a situation though where the roles of the future aren’t even defined. I don’t even know what they are. And this is not unique to accountancy. We don’t know now because technology is going to dictate to a large extent what those roles may be… so I think that’s important for us to try and... and support those people as they learn to adjust to a new world, which is difficult because we can’t articulate what that new world is yet, and we may not be able to for some time