Future Firms
An exploratory project on the future of professional services firms
Insights
Insights and thought-leadership from our work.
Browse-
Innovation Summit:
Future of Reporting
Two-minute graphic summary of the 11 July Innovation Summit -
New Horizons for Education
First-hand graphical summary of the key themes and discussion points. -
Assurance Innovation by Design
Reflections from the Assurance Design Workshop for ICAEW members on 7 December -
Ethical Systems Design
Summary of the key points from the 'Ethics by Design' Conference -
Professional ethics in a world of algorithms
Video highlights from the Futures Salon on ethics and AI -
What is our role
in reaching the Goals?
What should be the role of the accountancy profession in helping businesses transform and deliver on the Goals?
Updates
News, updates and events
Browse blog posts-
Workshop: Education by Design
We invite you to take part in our 2017 workshop for accounting educators. Following our recent engagements with BAFA, we would like to build on previously successful workshops with progressive academics, and continue building capacity and understanding of approaches and theories of designing professional education for the future. The workshop will bring together leading educators […]
-
BAFA 2017 Annual Conference
We invite you to take part and contribute to an interactive discussion on Monday 10 April at 5pm that will bring together over 200 academics, business leaders and accounting practitioners. We are delighted to be working with the British Accounting and Finance Association at the 2017 Annual Conference in Edinburgh. We see this as a […]
-
Ethics by Design:
the Storyboard
While we are working on writing up the materials from the Ethics by Design Conference, you can download the graphic recording from the event:
-
20 October 2016:
Bird-eye’s View on the Profession
As the speed of change for business and technology increases, the accountancy profession faces the challenge of remaining relevant to its full range of stakeholders. How do we humanise accountancy and what is the role of the profession in building resilient, safe, inclusive and prosperous communities? We invite you to take part in an exciting, […]
-
14.10.2016
Futures Salon:
Reimagining the Firm
On 14 October 2016, we invite you to an exclusive lunch discussion on the future of professional services firms. The event will focus on the insights from the Future Firms research project that we are running in partnership with the ShiftBase Think Tank. Over twenty accounting firms took part in workshops, interviews and surveys and […]
-
Design-thinking Workshop
A finance director has a problem. She’s unsure what to do, and she’s asked for help. Some form of assurance might be the solution, but it doesn’t seem to fit into any standard engagement. What do you do? Design-thinking – the creative process for tackling tricky questions and finding valuable solutions – might seem a […]