KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 5 — Deputy Finance Minister Liew Chin Tong has urged accountants and finance professionals to be multidisciplinary as the positive and negative impacts of artificial intelligence (AI) emerge and continue to occupy the minds of finance leaders in the years ahead.
He said AI would displace some less sophisticated jobs held by accountants but would probably create new ones requiring deeper human judgement, fewer technical skills and more value-based decision-making.
“It is in this context that I would say that Malaysia’s positioning in this less innocent and more complex era is to focus on ‘the three middles’.
“Namely, to fortify Malaysia’s position as the indispensable middle in the supply chain and in technology; to hold on to the geopolitical middle and be non-aligned throughout; and to build a strong middle class,” he said in his keynote address at the Certified Practising Accountant (CPA) Congress 2026 today.
