About Rise Navigator

A profession‑wide visioning effort exploring how finance and accounting can be the human in the lead over the next 15 years.

A profession where technology accelerates impact, skills unlock new influence, and trust, regulation, and public value become the profession's greatest differentiators.

Rise Navigator is a long-term strategic initiative examining how the finance and accounting profession is changing — and what it will need to thrive in an increasingly complex, connected, and technology-enabled world. The initiative examines professional perspectives on:

• → Changing expectations of the profession
• → Skills, capabilities, and roles over time
• → The impact of technology, data, and automation
• → Trust, ethics, and public interest considerations
• → Regulation, reporting, and assurance in a changing environment

This platform provides access to those insights through both a published report and an interactive chat experience.

How the Rise2040 Vision Report was created

We recognise the importance of integrity and trust for our profession, and we continued that approach with how we constructed the report. We took an AI-first approach to capture the insights from our 6,000+ strong community of participants in the initiative. To preserve those insights, we used AI to drive the outputs of the results, and dig in further to create actionable takeaways that can be applied now when thinking about the future. We did not alter the outputs of the report — it is a clean, true representation of the global finance and accounting profession's view of the future.

The Rise Navigator interactive experience

Rise Navigator features a Generative AI model created by the AICPA and CIMA to capture and synthesize the data from over 6,000 professionals across 25 countries, captured during live sessions looking at how the accounting and finance profession will change up to 2040 and beyond. It uses conversational language to answer questions about the data gathered, and provides plain-language responses while leveraging the collective thoughts across a global community.

It does so by providing a secure, responsive, world-standard Large Language Model (LLM) that can be used by students, members, and other organizations of the global accounting and finance profession.

Why use Rise Navigator?

Explore insight through conversation. Rise Navigator is designed to support exploration and understanding of professional perspectives. It highlights themes and viewpoints emerging from the initiative, and is intended to inform discussion rather than provide formal advice or definitive predictions. It sources insights from 6,000 professionals across 25 countries.

You can use it to:

• → Understand key themes shaping the profession's future
• → Explore different perspectives on major issues
• → Ask follow-up questions to clarify or go deeper
• → Support discussion, planning, and strategic thinking

All responses are grounded in Rise Navigator insights and analysis.

How Rise Navigator works

Rise Navigator is designed to help users explore insight, not to provide definitive answers. You can:

• → Ask broad questions to understand key themes
• → Explore specific topics in more detail (e.g. trust, technology, economic change, and evolving needs)
• → Request summaries or deeper explanations
• → Understand where viewpoints align or differ across different topics

Understanding responses

Responses are grounded in analysis of the Rise Navigator data collected from more than 6,000 finance and accounting professionals across 25 countries and reflect:

• → Patterns observed across contributions
• → Areas of strong alignment
• → Areas of uncertainty or differing perspectives

Each response includes a clear source reference.