2024 MSCPA Annual Convention: Details

Systems Thinking for CPAs 2024

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Monday, May 13, 2024 @ 12:00pm 2:00pm
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Description

Learn how to employ systems thinking to disentangle complexities, recognize and interpret patterns and diagnose problems. Understand concepts such as interconnectedness, synthesis, and emergence and use this understanding to foresee risks and build collaborative teams. Learn systems mapping, causality, and feedback loops to be able to assess culture more accurately, support good group decision-making, and bolster professional skepticism. Systems thinking will help you develop deeper insights into complex problems and understand how changes in policies, procedures and controls affect behavior.

Prerequisites

None

Highlights

• Pattern recognition and interconnectedness • Foresight • Emergence • Complexity • System mapping

Objectives

• Identify three strategies of system mapping • Recognize two foresight strategies • Determine two approaches for recognizing emerging patterns

Preparation

None

Credits

Category Amount
General 2.00