Overview
This course explores the evolving challenges facing the accounting workforce, focusing on the causes of talent shortages, increasing recruitment pressures, and why professionals are leaving the field due to burnout, heavy workloads, and rising expectations.
Learning Outcomes:
- Understand causes of talent shortages
- Identify retention strategies
- Rethink workforce models
Course outline:
State of the Accounting Workforce
- Skills shortages and recruitment pressure
Why People Are Leaving
- Burnout, workload, and expectations
- Rapid pace of regulatory and tech change
Skills for 2026
- Digital, regulatory, and advisory capability
- RegTech and systems literacy
Retention & Workforce Strategies
- Flexible models and development pathways
Speaker:
Rob McCusker
Professor Rob McCusker is a transnational crime consultant providing strategic and policy advice to international governments and organisations in countries ranging from Cameroon, Jamaica and Somalia to Denmark, Afghanistan and Singapore, on cross-border crime, corruption, corporate governance, international security and anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing. Rob is a retained expert for Interpol (on ‘innovation and foresight’ in relation to future organised crime), a retained expert for the Economic Crime and Cooperation Division, Council of Europe (on ‘anti-corruption and good governance’, ‘anti-money laundering’, ‘combating organized crime’ and ‘combating terrorism and its funding’) and has been a designated expert for the UN Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice since 2005 (on ‘economic crime, including money laundering’).