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Accountants for Business Future pathways to finance leadership ACCA and IMA About ACCA About IMA® ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) is the IMA®, the association of accountants and financial professionals global body for professional accountants. ACCA aims to offer in business, is one of the largest and most respected business-relevant, first-choice qualifications to people of application, associations focused exclusively on advancing the management ability and ambition around the world who seek a rewarding career accounting profession. Globally, IMA supports the profession in accountancy, finance and management. For more information through research, the CMA® (Certified Management Accountant) about ACCA, please visit www.accaglobal.com program, continuing education, networking, and advocacy of the highest ethical business practices. IMA has a global network of more than 65,000 members in 120 countries and 200 local chapter communities. IMA provides localised services through its offices in Montvale, N.J, USA; Zurich, Switzerland; Dubai, UAE; and Beijing, China. For more information about IMA, please visit www.imanet.org About Accountants for Business ACCA’s global programme, Accountants for Business, champions the role of finance professionals in all sectors as true value creators in organisations. Through people, process and professionalism, accountants are central to great performance. They shape business strategy through a deep understanding of financial drivers and seek opportunities for long-term success. By focusing on the critical role professional accountants play in economies at all stages of development around the world, and in diverse organisations, ACCA seeks to highlight and enhance the role the accountancy profession plays in supporting a healthy global economy. www.accaglobal.com/ri © The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants and Institute of Management Accountants, June 2013 FUTURE PATHWAYS TO FINANCE LEADERSHIP 2 Foreword by Helen Brand In delivering successful finance ACCA (the Association of Chartered leadership and performance, Certified Accountants) and IMA (Institute of the standout challenges facing Management Accountants) have partnered on one of the largest ever global studies of today’s Chief Financial Officers current and future CFO career paths. Future (CFOs) are already significant. pathways to finance leadership outlines the career routes that present CFOs have taken But for the next generation of to become finance leaders, and addresses finance leaders, they will be the critical question for those seeking to even greater. This will shine become the next generation of CFOs: how do I get there and what experience should a spotlight on the need to I seek out? evolve new finance career It’s essential reading for companies wishing paths which equip the leaders to develop their future CFO talent, and of tomorrow with the skills, for those professionals with ambition and experiences and capabilities talent who wish to become future CFOs – whether that will be their next career step, necessary in a rapidly changing or something they aim to achieve over the business environment. next decade and more. Helen Brand OBE Chief Executive FUTURE PATHWAYS TO FINANCE LEADERSHIP 3 Foreword by Jeff Thomson We at IMA are pleased to Today’s CFO faces many challenges and partner with ACCA on one of these will only increase, in the areas of the largest studies of its kind globalization, technology, consumer sophistication, competition, among to understand the pathways other factors. They need to have multiple to senior leadership positions lines of sight – oversight, hindsight, and foresight, balancing technical skills with in finance and accounting, leadership skills, and running the business and more importantly, to with growing the business initiatives. Now, ultimately help develop, more than ever, the CFO is at the forefront of value preservation and value creation nurture, and grow the next activities; no small balancing act. generation of leaders with IMA and ACCA believe we have an appropriate competencies obligation to enrich the profession along their career arc. and society by creating ethically sound accounting and finance team leaders with technical accounting depth and business operations breadth. I hope you’ll agree this report is a significant milestone in that journey. Jeffrey Thomson, CMA, CAE President and CEO FUTURE PATHWAYS TO FINANCE LEADERSHIP 4
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