Systems Thinking for CPAs 2024
Overview
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.
Highlights
- Pattern recognition and interconnectedness
- Foresight
- Emergence
- Complexity
- System mapping
Prerequisites
None
Designed For
Designed for analysts, auditors, attorneys, CPAs, governance and compliance professionals, and those working in the IT, HR, legal, and medical professions as well as executives, policymakers and other decision-makers interested in understanding systems thinking
Objectives
- Identify three strategies of system mapping
- Recognize two foresight strategies
- Determine two approaches for recognizing emerging patterns
Preparation
None
Notice
This course is offered by a 3rd party vendor. Login instructions will not be accessible in the My CPE Tracker section of the ISCPA website. Login instructions will be emailed directly to you by California Education Foundation (CalCPA).
Leader(s):
Leader Bios
Toby Groves
Toby Groves, principal at GRC-Groves Research and Consulting, is an independent researcher on critical thinking, focusing on the gap between the way our minds are supposed to work and the way they actually work. He is trained in a unique combination of forensic psychology, forensic accounting and behavioral research methods. Groves’ work, story and commentary have been featured on media outlets, in professional industry journals and studied by business schools across the country.
Non-Member Price $119.00
Member Price $89.00