Professional accountants play an essential role in guiding the strategic decision-making of businesses in every sector across the globe. They bring vital financial and analytical insight, both in their position as CFOs of businesses of all sizes and as members of the finance function, but also from within other strategically important areas of an organisation. 

Recognising the vital importance of this contribution to business, ACCA is committed to developing professional accountants with the skills needed by organisations today and in the future. The Business Forum provides invaluable support in this objective by encouraging shared thinking on key business issues that impact chief financial officers (CFOs) and their teams. 

The forum includes CFOs, finance directors and other senior finance and business leaders representing different organisations from across Asia, Europe, Africa and North America. Each member brings their own unique perspective and experience of what is happening in their organisation, sector, region and country. 

The forum is a space where discussions go well beyond the regulations and rules that impact businesses and allow for a full, experience-led exploration of issues being raised in companies across the world.

These insights are fed into the ACCA’s technical research and professional insights work. In recent years have played an invaluable role in informing important ACCA research on the future of the finance function in a digital world, on the changing role of the CFO, and in evidencing the value that professional accountants bring to businesses worldwide.