Why Excelling at Excel Is Important for Your Accounting Job
Mastery of Microsoft Excel is a must-have skill for accountants, and a key to their professional growth. Here are some tips for accelerating your career with Excel.
As accounting and finance recruiters in Toronto, our job involves not only understanding our candidates’ strengths, but also identifying some of their weaknesses.
Tips for Writing a Self-Assessment at Your Finance Job, Pt. I
The self-assessment has broken even the strongest and most confident accounting and finance professionals. Follow our advice to come out of it smelling like roses.
3 Ways to Impress Your New Finance Manager
You’re starting in a new role and want to impress your finance manager.
While the first two months in any job can feel overwhelming as you learn the ins and outs, there are definitely ways to show that the company made a wise choice in hiring you.
Here are
20 Things to Put On Your Finance Career Bucket List
The movie “The Bucket List” follows two terminally ill men who create a wish list of things they want to do before they die or ‘kick the bucket’. The movie reinforces the importance of living life, setting goals and doing what it takes to achieve them.
But what would a
How to Act Like a CFO Before You Are One
In a nutshell, the CFO role means transitioning from number cruncher to business partner and strategic advisor.
This means that if your brass ring is a top level seat at the C-Suite table, ask yourself if you have the strategic and communication skill set to get there.
If the answer
How to Feel More Fulfilled in Your Accounting Job
Feeling a little aloof from your work? Having a hard time pumping yourself up to head to the office? Try these tips to start feeling a bit more fulfilled in your accounting job.
Let’s be honest: inputting numbers and analyzing transactional data can wear on you over time. Though
Why Accountants Should Be Able to Write
The pen, they say, is mightier than the sword: here’s why it helps when accountants can wield one comfortably. Writing in accounting is a crucial skills when it comes to written documents like memos, letters and written financial statements.
Workplace Well-Being Tips for Accountants
Working hard doesn’t have to mean working hurt. Here are some things you should start – or stop – doing to ensure you stay sound of body and mind at your workplace.
Corporate and health gurus today are constantly touting the importance of “wellness in the workplace.” It’s very easy
Improve Your Career: Leadership Skills Every Accountant Should Have
Some leaders are born – others are bred. Here are some leadership skills every accountant should have, so that they can stop playing “follow the leader,” and start being the leaders to follow.
There are a lot of popular myths about accountants (not a few of which have found their way into television’
Jim Caltabiano, MBA/CFO, on Improvising Your Way to Success, Pt. II
In the second part of our story on Jim Caltabiano, the Vice-President and CFO of Campbell Company of Canada explains how, after a small “detour,” he found his way back on the path to success.
So you’d left Campbell’s to pursue something different. What was your next opportunity?
Jim Caltabiano, MBA/CFO, on Improvising Your Way to Success, Pt. I
Jim Caltabiano, Vice-President of Finance and CFO of Campbell Company of Canada, explains how even the best-laid plans can go awry sometimes – and how he refused to let any such setbacks keep him from finding success.
There’s a delicate balance you have to strike in managing your career. On
Why Managers Should Quit Hiring People Like Themselves
It can be all-too tempting to hire people who are mirror-images of ourselves, both in terms of professional experience and personalities. There are good reasons, however, why you might want to consider some candidates who won’t be mistaken for your doppelgangers.
It’s a well-known phenomenon, albeit one many
