How to make a professional apology
CPAs and business-etiquette experts offer tips on apologizing.
Leadership, Communication and Professional Skills
Engage your listeners through financial storytelling
CPAs sometimes struggle to hold their audiences’ interest when presenting financial data. Peter Margaritis, CPA, tells CPAs how to use storytelling to make their presentations more compelling.
7 tips for managing sideways
CPAs need to focus more on connecting with and influencing their management peers, not just the people above and below them.
Make sure your CPA traits are assets and not liabilities
This column discusses how CPAs can let certain characteristics shine to their greatest advantage.
Quiz: English expressions that trip up writers
This quiz will give you practice in understanding and using some words or phrases that cause speakers and writers to stumble.
How to encourage candor in your office
This column offers tips for creating an atmosphere where everyone feels free to speak up and criticism is delivered in respectful ways.
Which superheroes would make the best CPAs?
CPAs offer their take on which superheroes would make great accountants and why.
5 books for CPAs to read on summer vacation
Several CPAs offer their top picks for the best vacation reads.
How to get the most out of conferences
This article looks at ways to make conference attendance pay off by building connections and expanding your network.
5 tips for handling gossip in the workplace
This column offers ways for employees, managers, and firms to deal with gossip.
How a CPA overcame her fear of public speaking
Elizabeth Pittelkow, CPA, accounting and compliance director at ArrowStream, discusses how her experience with Toastmasters turned her from someone who avoided public speaking to someone who’s made it a key part of her career.
6 professional pitfalls of unhealthy living
This column takes a look at the impact not investing in your health and well-being has on your professional life.
Be your own best ally
Learn ways to advocate for yourself at work—without appearing pushy.
How to reduce the pressures at work
Accountants, auditors, and finance professionals can use strategies to tackle productivity challenges and reduce stress.
What they're reading
Business and leadership books recommended by this issue’s guest editors can inform and inspire their fellow CPAs.
How firms can overcome challenges and develop a diverse workforce
Recruiting a diverse workforce can be a challenge for CPA firms outside the Big Four, but it can be overcome with a commitment to building relationships.
How to succeed in your first accounting job
This column offers tips for young accountants to ease the transition from student to professional.
6 leadership mistakes to avoid
When it comes to change, you need to lead, follow, or get out of the way.
Shaking up the board
It is essential that board makeups represent the customers the company serves.
How young CPAs can help save the world
The accounting profession offers altruistically minded Millennials unique advantages in giving back to society.
