When is the right time to reflect on who you want to become and then take positive action to make it happen? For Shelly Natalia ACCA, a fast-track career and a succession of leadership roles put into focus her need to find out what sort of impact she wanted to make as a leader. And that meant uprooting herself from home in Indonesia to study at the prestigious MIT Sloan School of Management in Massachusetts, US. In her interview, she talks about the transformational journey she has been on since enrolling on the MBA programme and how her learning is helping her immersion into the entrepreneurial ecosystem in the US and Asia.
Visible female leadership in the workplace is seen as an enabler for career growth among women, according to a study in Hong Kong SAR of China. We look into how organisations are setting the pace for gender-balanced leadership in finance, as flexible working and access to regional assignments drive female representation at senior levels.
Elsewhere, we find out about impact accounting and how going beyond environmental, social and governance (ESG) reporting is gaining traction among organisations. Recognising that performance and long-term resilience is not just about profit but also natural, social, human and produced capital, businesses are challenging conventional notions of accountability. And there’s more on the importance of value creation and embedding ESG concerns into core business metrics, with views from industry leaders in Singapore taking part in an ACCA roundtable on sustainability initiatives.
Over in our practice section, we hear from practitioners on how they are harnessing automation to develop new audit tools that enhance the productivity of audit staff. As firms feel the pressure of a talent squeeze, finding ways to streamline tasks and free up resources is not only necessary but a way to make efficiency gains.
The outlook for the job market in Asia this year is essential reading if you are considering a workplace move now or in the future. Topping up digital skills and building your commercial strengths will have some traction among hirers. And our careers CPD article this month looks at the shortfalls of relying entirely on willpower for success. What tactics do you need to accomplish your professional goals?
Finally, a reminder that if you are looking for more CPD articles, you might like to browse our extensive collection. You can also earn more than 21 units of free CPD by watching on demand ACCA’s annual Accounting for the Future conference.
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