More than 15,000 accountants and finance professionals have enrolled in the Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants’ AI Fluency Programme within two months of its launch, according to ISCA.
The figure puts the initiative about a quarter of the way toward its goal of equipping 60,000 accountancy and corporate-finance professionals over three years. The program is part of Singapore’s broader push to build practical AI capabilities among non-technology professionals.
ISCA said the program is built around more than 180 accounting and finance AI use cases across six professional roles, including audit, finance, tax, internal audit, governance, and board reporting. It also includes more than 600 practical learning activities.
More than 250 participants have earned an AI Fluency digital badge, while almost 80 have completed the full 30 hours of structured online learning and been recognized as AI Champions, according to the institute.
Participating organizations include EY, Deloitte, DBS, SP Group, and Singapore’s Accountant-General’s Department. ISCA said the Accountant-General’s Department has enrolled more than 400 officers and plans to progressively extend the training to around 4,000 public-sector finance and internal-audit officers.
ISCA also cited early workplace applications at Accredify, where AI workflows have been developed to reduce the time spent on selected finance and contract-processing tasks by an estimated 50 to 80 percent. That figure is based on the organization’s own reported use case and should not be read as a general productivity benchmark.
The institute is preparing Chinese, Thai, and Vietnamese versions of the program and said discussions are under way with professional bodies, accounting firms, and companies across ASEAN about wider adoption.
The program was launched in July with Singapore’s Infocomm Media Development Authority under the National AI Impact Programme, which is intended to expand AI fluency across non-technology occupations.
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