{
  "id": 3903787,
  "title": "More than 15,000 sign up for national accounting body’s AI programme in two months",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/28/more-than-15-000-sign-up-for-national-accounting-bodys-ai-programme",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-08-28T06:00:25.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Business Times - Singapore",
    "slug": "the-business-times-singapore",
    "url": "https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/companies-markets/more-15000-sign-national-accounting-bodys-ai-programme-two-months"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "More than 15,000 accountants and finance professionals have signed up for the Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants' (Isca) AI programme within two months of its launch, representing a quarter of its three-year goal of 60,000 participants. Isca aims to expand the programme to Chinese, Thai and Vietnamese speakers, and to involve professional accountancy bodies, accounting firms, and companies across Asia. The rapid enrollment comes a week after Isca established collaboration with the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) to extend Singapore-developed AI training to their 1.5 million members and students. The AI Fluency Programme offers over 180 AI use cases and 600 learning activities tailored to six professional roles, such as audit, finance, tax, and board reporting. Participants range from students and small firm practitioners to senior business leaders, and employers like EY, Deloitte, and SP Group have staff involved. Employers have seen workplace benefits, such as AI workflows reducing finance and contract-processing tasks by 50-80%. Isca's president, Lee Boon Teck, emphasized that AI enhances professional judgment rather than replacing it and highlighted the profession's readiness to embrace AI as Isca strives to create an \"AI-fluent accountancy profession\" in Singapore.",
  "summary": "Isca is preparing Chinese, Thai and Vietnamese versions as it looks to take the initiative beyond Singapore",
  "key_points": [
    "More than 15,000 accountants signed up for Isca's AI programme in two months.",
    "Programme aims to reach 60,000 participants within three years.",
    "Collaboration with ICAI to extend AI training to 1.5 million members."
  ],
  "editors_take": "The swift uptake of Isca's AI programme signals a significant step towards creating an AI-fluent accountancy profession in Singapore, with far-reaching implications for the industry's future use of technology.",
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "The Business Times - Companies & Markets",
        "title": "More than 15,000 sign up for national accounting body’s AI programme in two months",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/28/more-than-15-000-sign-up-for-national-accounting-bodys-ai-programme-3904222",
        "published": "2026-08-28T06:00:25.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}