Top Fives

CPA Visions - Top Fives

The Take Away

The 1998 Visions Project focused on top five definitions covering 15 core items that defined the CPA profession. These definitions were so accepted and so universal in defining the profession that it was agreed that the Horizon 2025 project would retain and build upon them.

The major headings are:

Core Values – essential and enduring beliefs
Core Services – the work performed for a fee or salary
Core Competencies – the unique combination of skills, knowledge and technology that provides value.

The Top five definitions contained within those headings are:

Core Values

Continuing Education and Life-Long Learning
Competence
Integrity
Attuned to Business Issues
Objectivity

Core Services

Assurance and Information Integrity
Technology Services
Management Consulting and Performance Management
Financial Planning
International Services

Core Competencies

Communication and Leadership Skills
Strategic and Critical Thinking Skills
Focus on the Customer, Client and Market
Interpretation of Converging Information
Adept at Technology

For more information on the definitions, please download the PDF of the full 1998 CPA Visions Project report.

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Core Services

Overview: In preparation for CPA Horizons 2025, leading futurist consulting group Weiner, Edrich and Brown, (WEB) evaluated the 5 Core Services that came out of the 1998 CPA Visions Project. Here are some of their insights.
Published on February 04, 2011

Core Values

Overview: In preparation for CPA Horizons 2025, leading futurist consulting group Weiner, Edrich and Brown, (WEB) evaluated the 5 Core Values that came out of the 1998 CPA Visions Project. Here are some of their insights.
Published on February 04, 2011

Core Competencies

Overview: In preparation for CPA Horizons 2025, leading futurist consulting group Weiner, Edrich and Brown, (WEB) evaluated the 5 Core Competencies that came out of the 1998 CPA Visions Project.
Published on February 04, 2011

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