Dakota CPA Connection Produced by the North Dakota CPA Society
November 2025 | Volume XXXVII | No. 06
Finance and Accounting 2040 - Rise to the Future Together
Your Voice. Our Future. 2040. Co-Creating the Profession of Tomorrow
Be part of an important conversation about the future of the accounting and finance profession. This Future Forum is your opportunity to have your voice heard as part of the AICPA’s Finance and Accounting 2040: Rise to the Future Together global initiative. Guided by trained facilitators and inspired by futurist Dan Burrus’s “hard trends” approach, these interactive sessions bring together professionals from every corner of accounting to surface bold ideas, explore disruptive trends, and spark innovative thinking. Your insights will join voices from around the globe to co-create a shared vision for where the profession needs to head by 2040 — a vision that will guide the profession through change with clarity and confidence. Learning Objectives • Identify major global trends, emerging technologies, and regulatory shifts likely to impact the accounting and finance profession by 2040.
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Apply futurist thinking tools, including Dan Burrus’s “hard trends” methodology, to envision strategic opportunities for the profession. Contribute informed perspectives to a collaborative, global conversation shaping the profession’s 2040 vision.
In This Issue • 2 Meet our President • 3 Award Winners
• 3 Meet our new Director • 4 Directors Message • 5 Meet our Members
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Recognize how diverse stakeholder input can strengthen the resilience, relevance, and impact of the accounting and finance profession.
How will we do this? Using Dan Burrus’s hard trends and opportunities framework, we will anchor insights to create predictable futures. As we collaborate across sectors—public, corporate finance, academia, government, nonprofit— we are already walking away with actionable outputs. Sessions are taking place literally around the world from the Americas to Asia, Europe to Africa. And we need your unique perspective to be part of the conversation! November 4 8:30 – 11:00 United Energy Corporation Gold Seal Building 918 E Divide Ave Bismarck November 18 1:00 – 3:30 Holiday Inn 3803 13th Ave S Fargo 2.5 CPE Credits
Chapter Tour Schedule Nov 4 11:30 5:00
Bismarck Fargo
Nov 5 11:30 Grand Forks 5:00 Minot Nov 6 8:00 Williston 12 MT Dickinson
Free for Members
• 6 Convention • 7 B&I Miniseries • 8 Free CPE
• 11 National Spotlight • 13 Ethics Corner • 13 Classifieds
on page 5 • 15Continued Ethics Corner