Succession in accountancy firms has entered a new and more complex phase. Evidence from the AGN–Nexia World Congress in Munich, supported by comparative survey data from 2019 to 2025, points to a profession at an inflection point. While firms report moderate preparedness for digital and AI adaptation, leadership readiness, talent pipeline strength, and ownership appeal are weakening.
In early 2026, AGN member firms convened in Dallas, Fort Worth for a focused roundtable on AI adoption in the modern accounting firm. The session combined an external expert briefing from AI thought leader Roman Kepczyk from Rightworks, with a peer-led discussion among managing partners and senior practice leaders.
A joint AGN & Nexia thought-leadership publication, developed through global collaboration at the AGN & Nexia World Congress, Munich.
This Global Business Voice draws on the insights gathered during the Future Funding workshop delivered at the AGN & Nexia World Congress in Munich in late 2025. Partners from AGN and Nexia member firms across Europe, the Americas, Asia-Pacific and emerging markets explored how accounting firms are responding to accelerating structural change, new capital and funding models, and new sets of tech enabled well-funded competitors.
Contributed by: Acclime.
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Investing in new technologies and funding new skills and fresh talent, all while maintaining independence and your firms unique culture, is no doubt a tall order. The pressure to embrace and resolve these matters is relentless. Competitive pressure, productivity and workload pressure or the pressure of modernizing and transforming your business in the face of near constant developments in technology – all bring the need for capital funds into focus. Some firms rely on a strong balance sheet with reinvested profits. Others draw on modest capital injections from retained earnings, bank lending, or new equity partners, or external backing.
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