Accounting, often described as "the language of business", requires a diverse set of written, listening and oral communication skills if those who practise it are to be effective. Given the pace of change relating to, for example, the evolution of international accounting standards and the demands for greater transparency, accountants must be clear, responsive, and audience-focussed communicators. Employers of accountants consistently comment on the need for their new graduate recruits and trainees to have strong written, oral, and interpersonal communication skills. In this light accounting educators face the challenge of designing and delivering programmes that reflect professional expectations on the part of employers and clients, and educating students on how to make informed communication choices in order to achieve desired results and to build good working relationships. The chapters in this book deal with such topics as accounting students’ perceptions of oral communication skills; competence-based writing skills; and the development of listening skills. This book was originally published as Accounting Education: an international journal.
As such, this book will be of interest to a wide range of readers, including: postgraduate students in management and accounting; established researchers in the fields of both accounting and communications; and accounting practitioners.
Asserting that accountants must be able to communicate effectively through both writing and speaking, this handbook provides advice on how to gain communication skills relevant for the various financial fields...
Developing Communications Skills for the Accounting Profession
This book investigates dominant views about communication and interrogates what shapes these views in the accounting field from a Global South perspective, exploring the idea of ‘good communication’ in the globalized accounting field.
There are a myriad of opportunities to investigate CA as it relates to the use of computers and online communication such as videoconferencing, e-mail, blogging, instant chat, and social media. If CA is indeed a personality trait, ...
This book was originally published as a special issue of Accounting Education: An International Journal.
Communication Skills: For the Accounting Profession in Australia
The Communication Skills Handbook for Accounting, 2nd edition has been designed to develop the written and oral communication skills of university accounting students.
The employers from all of the accounting firms expect accounting graduates to possess a sound knowledge of accounting principles and concepts, a basic understanding of business, and good communication, teamwork and interpersonal skills.
This custom title is published for Curtin University.