sustainability
If we’re going to have business and employment survive, we have to be truly committed to looking at these things in an integrated way, and building that relationship with people who invest their capital in businesses, who buy products and services from those businesses, and who regulate those businesses.
The word “sustainability” can have a lot of definitions. We can think about sustainability from an environmental perspective, but we can also think about sustainability as the notion of dealing with change, providing information for decision-making, and the sustainability of the business world and the employment base that it supports.
We have the luxury today to see the most significant changes that have ever occurred in mankind. And how we provide information and decision-making sources during that time will define our commitment to sustainability in a broader definition.
Clearly, when we look at sustainability from an accounting perspective and we think about the things that are upon us, such as the use of artificial intelligence and augmented intelligence in business communication; blockchain technology, professionals like accountants, lawyers, investor groups, business operators will play a critical role in a dialogue that is not likely to come from government, but has to come from the free market system.
If business and employment are to survive, we have to be truly committed to looking at these things in an integrated way, and building that relationship with people who invest their capital in businesses, who buy products and services from those businesses, and who regulate those businesses.
Read the CPA Journal story here.