The ThinkTWENTY20 Newsletter
March 2025
LATEST ISSUE
Our Winter 2025 issue is special because it contains four long and in-depth articles on subjects of considerable importance to all accountants and financial professionals – mental health, integrated thinking, virtual reality and the international payments systems. The issue continues our mission to present thought-invoking materials for the benefit of financial professionals.
The article on mental health was prepared By Merridee Bujaki, Ph.D., FCPA, FCA, Darlene Himick, Ph.D., CFA, LLB, and Suzanne Paquette, Ph.D., CPA, CA, all of whom are full professors with extensive research backgrounds. It is a report on a subset of the interviews they conducted as part of a larger study of knowledge workers and their mental health across several professions, including more than 300 accounting professionals. In this article, they examine the interviews from 17 individuals with significant mental health concerns to learn more about the challenges and consequences of their experiences, as well as the implications for the profession.
The second article is by Alan Willis, FCPA, FCA, who has written extensively for us in previous issues on the subject of sustainability and ESG reporting. It focuses on integrated thinking – the active consideration by an organization of the relationships between its various operating and functional units. Integrated thinking takes into account the connectivity and interdependencies between the range of factors that affect an organization’s ability to create value over time.
In Eric Cohen’s article – Solutions for Creating Ethical Standards in Virtual Environments – Eric explores the key ethical concerns surrounding VR and other virtual environments, focusing on privacy, behavior and security, but also extending into the broader concept of reality itself, examining how both immersive and non-immersive environments, such as Second Life and Facebook, have shaped user experiences. Finally, he proposes solutions for ethical standards in virtual environments.
On the topic of International Clearing and Settlement and the Blockchain, Bob Tapscott presents the third and final part of his three-part opus that explains the current projects underway to modernize the clearing systems. The article explains how blockchain, properly deployed, could create a better system with near immediate transfers concurrent to not just hedging but eliminating risk.
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