Top 5 Knowledge Podcasts To Expand Your Mind
Having a routine can help you navigate working-from-home during COVID-19 by helping you manage your work-day with your home-life.
Routine: Working From Home The Right Way
Having a routine can help you navigate working-from-home during COVID-19 by helping you manage your work-day with your home-life.
FP&A: Not Just for CPAs
Is it true that Canadian employers have a tendency to hire CPAs over non-designated professionals (MBAs, CFA’s, undergraduate finance/business degree holders) within their Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) functions? With U.S. based companies, an emphasis on MBAs and the like, seem to be more prevalent for FP&A roles.
Why Storytelling is a Crucial Skill for Finance and Accounting Professionals
Why does storytelling matter in the finance world? Here are some major reasons, and what you can do to better tell the stories that matter to your team.
Why Knowing a Second Language Can Help Your Accounting Career
In an increasingly competitive market, it helps to have something that differentiates you from other candidates. In this case, speaking a second language fluently, particularly ones such as French, German, Spanish or Mandarin, can definitely make you stand out. Here’s why all of those second language lessons can help
How to Set Goals as a Finance Manager (and Help Your Team Achieve Them)
Not everyone can score goals like Sidney Crosby or Wayne Gretzky, but if your finance team doesn’t meet expectations, the impact is widespread. That’s why it’s so important as a finance manager to set goals that include accountability and recognition. Here are some tips..
The Impact of High Employee Turnover (and What to Do About It)
The cost of replacing a departing employee can be staggering – in some cases the equivalent of a full year’s salary. Sourcing, landing and onboarding costs are substantial, and those investments of time and energy are lost along with the employee’s knowledge and expertise. But there are other impacts
How to Fast Track Your Accounting Career
A new year offers us a chance to set resolutions and follow through. If you want to fast track your accounting career, here are 5 goals to help you reach the next rung on the promotional ladder.
Goals 1: Cultivate a New Skill
Identify any new reporting standards, regulatory measures
The Accounting Interview: Questions That Test Emotional IQ
Questions that measure technical fit often take priority over emotional IQ in an accounting interview, but do they have the self-awareness, empathy and social skills to be a valuable member of your team?
How Long Does It Take to Find an Accounting Job?
They say that good fortune comes to those who wait. Okay, but how long should you have to wait? How long does it take to find an accounting job?
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’
Accountants and the MBA: Some Pros and Cons
Is an MBA worth the time and expense for accountants and CAs? Here are some pros and cons to consider.
As a working accountant, you’re likely no stranger to the following question: Should you get an MBA? Especially in the current era of academic inflation, one can’t help but wonder
