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Financial accounting & reporting

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Financial professionals are facing unprecedented changes in financial accounting and reporting. Economic, regulatory, and global forces are demanding higher-quality reporting while standards are in continual flux. These learning resources are designed to help you understand the knowledge and skills needed in the areas of financial accounting and reporting to appropriately serve their employers or clients.

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5 ways to excel at networking

This article highlights five steps anyone can take to excel at networking.

Article Collaboration & partnering Foundational

Collision course to collaboration

This article describes how blind dates, chance encounters, and creative onboarding built one company’s culture of ideas.

Article Team building Intermediate

If appraisals need a tune-up, then what’s next

Traditional employee performance appraisals are being called outdated and arbitrary. This article describes how to turn them into useful conversations.

Article Coaching & mentoring Intermediate

4 steps to start a reverse mentoring program

This article discusses how organizations can motivate and engage newer employees, and build the knowledge of established ones, through reverse mentoring.

Article Coaching & mentoring Foundational

6 key traits of business leaders with global ambitions

This article discusses six key traits that business leaders need to embody to convert diversity into insights that drive financial performance:

Article Team building Intermediate

The business case for diversity and inclusion at CPA firms

This article discusses several reasons why diversity and inclusion make good business sense for CPA firms.

Article Team building Intermediate

A coaching approach to line management

The coaching techniques in this article can help fulfill employees need for feedback and develop staff.

Article Coaching & mentoring Intermediate

6 ways to write an email message that works

Writing an efficient work-related message is easier said than done. To ensure your emails work rather than waste time, this article offers some tips.

Article Communication Foundational

Walking the talk on quality control

This article discusses several ways you can ensure that quality control is central to firm operations.

Article Firm operations Intermediate

Ways to reduce the gender pay gap

This article provides some ideas that your organization can use to help close the wage gap between male and female accountants .

Article Team building Intermediate

How to listen like a pro

This article discusses the importance of active listening and includes an exercise to do with your team.

Article Communication Intermediate

5 principles of high-quality ethics and compliance programmes

This article shares five principles of high-quality ethics and compliance programmes.

Article Ethics, integrity & professionalism