In November, Management for Design Director and Co-founder, Gordana Milosevska, was invited to chair two sessions at the CPA Congress in Melbourne.

The sessions chaired were “Finance Transformation—make it real, make it happen, make it last!”, presented by Stephannie Jonovska, and “Reinventing your business and teams when change happens”, presented by Helen Mac.
Stephannie, Manager Finance Transformation, BlueScope Australia and New Zealand, focused on finance transformation as a buzz word with a high element of FOMO. She talked about how BlueScope is integrating process improvement with technology optimisation while importantly keeping people at the centre.

In the second session, Helen introduced seven keys to reinventing our way through “storms” in our business and with our teams, to make sure that we all arrive safely at our ultimate destination—business success.

With a strong focus on the transformation that technology is having on the industry, congress delegates were asked to immerse themselves in technology and develop a greater understanding of the digital world. Some of the most significant challenges for finance and accounting professionals are:

• Accounting for the Robots, how the accounting industry is changing in the face of rapidly developing artificial intelligence technology
• The Future of Digital Money, where the increasing digitisation of money will blur the distinction between money and data

Overall, the congress was very insightful and demonstrated an exciting and dynamic future for the industry.