Download or read book How can an Accountant Change the World written by Vinod Kumar (Educator) and published by Accounting Education . This book was released on with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this ebook, there is an easy-to-follow guide for every accountant. If he or she will follow, it is sure, he or she can change the world.
Download or read book World s Most Inspiring Accountants written by Steve Pipe and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book CFgrOw written by Brad Eisenhuth and published by Michael Hanrahan Publishing. This book was released on 2015-02-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After more than ten years experience analysing career success and the progression of ambitious accounting and finance professionals, recruitment expert Brad Eisenhuth has discovered the factors that differentiate the best from the rest. He's used this knowledge to create a system that will allow you to stay in the driver's seat on the path to CFO. CFgrOw provides a practical and insightful overview of career management, helping you on your journey to the CFO chair and, ultimately, to finding your career sweet spot. Brad takes you through the elements that will provide fast-tracked and sustained success in corporate business - his Eight Pillars of Career Success: 1Creating clarity in your goals 2Practising self-awareness 3Effectively managing channels to new growth opportunities 4Surrounding yourself with the right relationships 5Always performing to a high standard 6Making smart decisions and understanding consequences 7Hiring the best talent available to support your journey 8Having influence Whether it's becoming the CFO of a top-20 ASX-listed company, a division of a global business, or a private enterprise, the foundations covered in CFgrOw can play a huge role in reaching your goals. Once implemented, the eight pillars will have a remarkable impact on your career, and the satisfaction you gain from it. With over a decade in the recruitment industry, including the placement of hundreds of senior accounting and finance professionals and working with top executives in a wide variety of industries, Brad Eisenhuth is covered on all things 'career'. Brad is a Director at [axr] executive recruitment, and an expert in interviewing and recruiting for top CFOs and their teams, advising on team structures, coaching on interview techniques, career planning and management, resume building, online profile marketing, decision making and much more.
Download or read book Dear Accountant written by Cecilia Leung and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-30 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you exploring careers in accounting and finance? In this refreshingly heartfelt collection, Dear Accountant shares the career journeys and wisdom of 20 leaders in the fields of accounting and finance. Read about: Tom Golden, the former PwC partner who, despite beginning an accounting career after being in sales for 10 years and failing the auditing exam, rose to become one of the most successful forensic accountants in the country. Isabel Mercedes Cumming, the Inspector General of Baltimore City, who saved the students of James Madison University a quarter of a million dollars as a member of student government during her freshman year there. Andrew Ly, the CEO of Sugar Bowl Bakery, who fled a war-torn country with only $1 in his pocket and went on to build a family empire with his 4 brothers. From senior partners at the Big 4 to executive recruiters and entrepreneurs, these industry-leading mentors openly share their individual career paths, their struggles, and the lessons they learned along the way. Dear Accountant provides a unique immersion into the lives and careers of these inspiring leaders, empowering you to blaze your own trail as you explore the thrilling, wonderful kaleidoscope of the accounting and finance professions.
Download or read book Six Capitals or Can Accountants Save the Planet Rethinking Capitalism for the Twenty First Century written by Jane Gleeson-White and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2015-02-25 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A timely and fascinating account of the revolution going on in the world of finance from the acclaimed author of Double Entry. This is the story of a twenty-first-century revolution being led by the most unlikely of rebels: accountants. Only the second revolution in accounting since double-entry bookkeeping began, it is of seismic proportions, driven by the 2008 financial crash and our ongoing environmental crisis. The changes it will wreak are profound and far-reaching and not only will transform the way the world does business but also will alter the nature of capitalism. While the wealth of nations and corporations has been vital to the global economy, increasingly the world is coming to realize that such endless growth is limited by the earth's resources and comes at a huge price to the planet and to human well-being. It simply cannot be sustained. This revolution demands that we go beyond merely accounting for traditional financial and industrial capital and take account of the benefits and detriments to the natural world and society. It urges us to include four new categories of wealth: intellectual (such as intellectual property), human (skills, productivity, and health), social and relationship (shared norms and values), and natural (environment). Making them part of our financial statements and GDP figures may be the only way to address the many calamities we face. Just two years ago this revolution seemed idealistic and unlikely. Today it is quickly unfolding. In 2012, the sea-change year, two key initiatives took root: an international movement to transform how corporate accounting is calculated and the rise of incorporating the effects on the environment to the accounting of national and global economies. Six Capitals tells the story of this coming new age in capitalism, evaluating its promise and the disaster that lies ahead if it is not implemented.
Download or read book The End of Accounting and the Path Forward for Investors and Managers written by Baruch Lev and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-06-14 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innovative new valuation framework with truly useful economic indicators The End of Accounting and the Path Forward for Investors and Managers shows how the ubiquitous financial reports have become useless in capital market decisions and lays out an actionable alternative. Based on a comprehensive, large-sample empirical analysis, this book reports financial documents' continuous deterioration in relevance to investors' decisions. An enlightening discussion details the reasons why accounting is losing relevance in today's market, backed by numerous examples with real-world impact. Beyond simply identifying the problem, this report offers a solution—the Value Creation Report—and demonstrates its utility in key industries. New indicators focus on strategy and execution to identify and evaluate a company's true value-creating resources for a more up-to-date approach to critical investment decision-making. While entire industries have come to rely on financial reports for vital information, these documents are flawed and insufficient when it comes to the way investors and lenders work in the current economic climate. This book demonstrates an alternative, giving you a new framework for more informed decision making. Discover a new, comprehensive system of economic indicators Focus on strategic, value-creating resources in company valuation Learn how traditional financial documents are quickly losing their utility Find a path forward with actionable, up-to-date information Major corporate decisions, such as restructuring and M&A, are predicated on financial indicators of profitability and asset/liabilities values. These documents move mountains, so what happens if they're based on faulty indicators that fail to show the true value of the company? The End of Accounting and the Path Forward for Investors and Managers shows you the reality and offers a new blueprint for more accurate valuation.
Download or read book Remaining Relevant written by Rob Nixon and published by Fontaine Press Pty Ltd. This book was released on 2015-03-27 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Remaining Relevant’ is practical and practiced advice for accountants to remain relevant in a ‘disrupted’ industry and has been described as “the most important business book that you will read this year.” Anthony S Bongiorno, The Bongiorno Group. The explosion of cloud computing and its impact on the accounting industry is the impetus for ‘Remaining Relevant’, which is all about the future of the accounting profession - essential reading in this manual for an accountant’s success. “Technology is enabling and will demand the accounting profession to transform. From the changing the engagement and service mix within a firm, to fixed fee billing and off shoring ... everything is up for review. As long-term industry insider and visionary, Rob has the unique capability to help accountants focus on what is important through his direct, and at times confronting, analysis of the profession. A must read.” Tim Reed, MYOB CEO “Rob Nixon is to accounting what Peter Drucker was to strategy: He creates new paradigms and fresh approaches to a discipline that would be headed for the doldrums without him.” Alan Weiss, PhD, Author, Million Dollar Consulting Rhode Island, USA “The accounting game is changing forever. Any partner who doesn’t acknowledge this is kidding themselves. The age of the dinosaur firm is coming to an end, and this book is a must for any accountant who wants to remain relevant in the 21st Century.” Chris Hooper, CEO, Accodex Adelaide, Australia
Download or read book Accountants New World written by Malcolm Simister and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-02-26 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All accountants, whether in commerce, industry, government, the not-for-profit sector or the accounting profession, must change significantly to remain relevant by becoming commercial, value adding business partners. This book shows how. Accountants' worlds are changing fast, so much so that in a few years' time accountants as we know them today may not even exist, for two reasons. Firstly, accountancy often tops the list of professions facing automation; it is likely that computers rather than accountants will count the beans in the near future. Secondly and fortuitously, to help them thrive businesses need their accountants to work closely with business managers to improve commercial outcomes, to transform into valued business partners. But to be valued business partners, accountants must change and upskill. They must build on their accounting and financial expertise to thoroughly understand their business and industry, develop and use their commercial acumen to identify and implement business initiatives, learn how to analyse and communicate proactively and quickly and know how to partner with business managers at all levels competently. For those accountants who make this transformation the future is bright with fulfilling and stimulating carers awaiting them, but the future for those who don't is bleak. This book is a practical guide for accountants to transform themselves into valued business partners. It is essential reading for all accountants.
Download or read book Six Capitals Updated Edition written by Jane Gleeson-White and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2020-04-28 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FULLY REVISED AND UPDATED 'A fascinating read. Gleeson-White artfully captivates the reader as she explores the fast-evolving language, metrics, actors and laws that are profoundly reshaping "capital" in the 21st century.' KATE RAWORTH, author of Doughnut Economics Climate change is here and capitalism is implicated: it's programmed to privilege profit and growth over human communities and the living earth. We need to change this system - and we need to do it now. Six Capitals charts the rise of four movements designed to overthrow capitalism as we know it: multi-capital accounting, for society, nature and profit; the push for a new corporation legally bound to benefit nature and society while making a profit; ecosystem accounting for nations; and legal rights for nature, which resonate with indigenous earth-centred laws.These movements are critical for the future of human life on this planet. Together they override the profit-driven modern corporation, the growth-driven nation state and the legal status of the natural world as lifeless property. Multi-capital and ecosystem accounting, benefit corporations and the rights of nature movement are here to stay. Six Capitals tells their story, from their first emergence in the postwar era to today. This revised, updated edition is for the new generations of business leaders, entrepreneurs, activists, accountants, economists, scientists, farmers, food growers and distributors, teachers, parents, politicians, bureaucrats and concerned citizens everywhere. 'broaden financial reports to include measures of social and environmental issues and just watch how it changes the behaviour of business people. Gleeson-White makes a good case for the success of her unlikely revolutionaries.' ROSS GITTINS, Sydney Morning Herald 'Six Capitals reveals the critical role of accounting in reimagining the way we do business and make policy in the twenty-first century. It's time for everyone to pay attention.' CARL OBST, lead author, United Nations System of Environmental-Economic Accounting
Download or read book Contemporary Issues in Accounting written by Elaine Conway and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-06-01 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book explores the developing challenges and opportunities within the business and finance world which are likely to impact the accounting profession in the near future. It outlines a number of approaches to ensure that the accountants of the future are equipped with a useful awareness of some of the key topic areas that are quickly becoming a reality and helps bridge the gap between academia and practice. The chapters are standalone introductory pieces to provide useful précis of key topics and how they apply to the accounting profession in particular. It aims to deliver key readings on ‘hot topics’ not addressed in other texts which the accounting profession is tackling or are likely to tackle soon. Hence the book provides accounting students and researchers a solid grounding in a broad range of highly relevant non-technical accounting themes, looking at the bigger environment in which future accountants will be operating, involving considerations of strategic corporate governance issues and highlighting competences beyond the standard technical accounting skill sets.
Download or read book The Social Function of Accounts written by John Flower and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-05-25 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accountancy as presently practised is tied to the paradigm of modern financial capitalism with its reliance on market solutions and the maximization of the firm’s profits, which are the fundamental causes of most these problems. The Social Function of Accounts argues that accountancy, as currently organized and practised, is failing society, both in Britain and in the world as a whole. Examining the current problems afflicting the world: financial crises and instability, global warming, degradation of the environment, growing inequality, this book asks the question - what contribution does accountancy make to the solution of these problems? The book argues that the accountancy profession does not serve the public interest, notwithstanding its claim to this effect. The Social Function of Accounts argues that the moral responsibility of the accountant is analysed with reference to the principal theories of ethics continuing that the individual accountant has a moral responsibility to consider the impact of his actions on other people and on society as a whole. This responsibility is then analysed in a series of chapters dealing with four specific aspects of the matter: Distributive Justice, Sustainability, Financial reporting & the Accountancy Profession. Concluding with a call for the accountancy profession to adopt a new ethic of service to the public The Social Function of Accounts redraws the boundaries of current accounting literature and will be vital reading for academics, researchers and policy makers in accounting and related disciplines.
Download or read book New Trends in Finance and Accounting written by David Procházka and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-12-25 with total page 823 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the most current trends in the field of finance and accounting from an international perspective. Featuring contributions presented at the 17th Annual Conference on Finance and Accounting at the University of Economics in Prague, this title provides a mix of research methods used to uncover the hidden consequences of accounting convergence in the private (IFRS) and public sectors (IPSAS). Topics covered include international taxation (from both the micro- and macroeconomic level), international investment, monetary economics, risk management, management accounting, auditing, investment capital, corporate finance and banking, among others. The global business environment shapes the international financial flows of finance and the demand for international harmonization of accounting. As such, the field of global finance and accounting has encountered some new challenges. For example, policy-makers and regulators are forced to restructure their tools to tackle with new features of trading at global capital markets and international investment. This book complements this global view of development with country-specific studies, focusing on emerging and transitioning economies, which are affected indirectly and in unforeseen ways. The combination of global perspective and local specifics makes this volume attractive and useful to academics, researchers, regulators and policy-makers in the field of finance and accounting.
Download or read book Accountants Truth written by Matthew Gill and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2011-03-24 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accounting is the language of business, increasingly standardized across the world through powerful global corporations: a technical skill used to reach the correct, unquestionable answer. Yet, as recent corporate scandals have shown, a whole range of financial professionals (auditors, bankers, analysts, company directors) can collectively fail to question dubious actions. How can this be possible? To understand such failures, this book explores how accountants construct the technical knowledge they deem relevant to decision-making. In doing so, it not only offers a new way to understand deviance and scandals, but also suggests a reappraisal of accounting knowledge which has important implications for everyday commercial life. The book's findings are based on interviews with chartered accountants working in the largest accountancy practices in London. The interviews reveal that although accounting decisions seem clear after they have been made, the process of making them is contested and opaque. Yet accountants nonetheless tend to describe their work as if it were straightforward and technical. Accountants' Truth digs beneath the surface to explore how accountants actually construct knowledge, and draws out the implications of that process with respect to issues such as professionalism, performance, transparency, and ethics. This important book concludes that accountants' technical discourse undermines their ethical reasoning by obscuring the ways in which accounting decisions must be thought through in practice. Accountants with particular ethical perspectives more readily understand and construct particular types of knowledge, so the two issues of knowledge and of ethics are inseparable. Increasingly technical accounting rules can therefore counterproductive. Instead, our best approach to avoiding future scandals is to redefine and reinvigorate professional ethics in the financial world.
Download or read book AiCCOUNTANTS Accountants Augmented by Artificial Intelligence AI written by Hitendra R. Patil and published by HITENDRA R. PATIL. This book was released on 2023-02-06 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aiccountants™ Accountants Augmented by Artificial Intelligence (AI) The What, Why, and How of Artificial Intelligence for Accountants No previous knowledge about AI required This book is intended to be the go-to guide for any accountant looking to stay ahead in the rapidly changing world of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology - from an accountant's point of view. This essential guidebook aims to provide accountants with a solid understanding of Artificial Intelligence (AI), including its implications for the accounting profession. The book contains: Nearly 100 examples specific to how AI works/can work in the accounting profession Actionable intelligence through practically implementable checklists Templates of suggested emails for interacting with clients when you deliver AI-powered services 30+ analogies to help easy understanding of the content And much more..... What you'll learn from this "easy read" book: How AI technology works, including machine learning and natural language processing How AI can be applied to accounting tasks such as financial analysis, fraud detection, and more The pros and cons of implementing AI in accounting - the potential for increased efficiency and accuracy, as well as the potential ethical and legal considerations. The potential future impact of AI on the accounting profession How AI may change how accountants work, and The future skills accountants will need to succeed And much more..... "Aiccountants™: Accountants Augmented by Artificial Intelligence" is a must-read for any accountant looking to stay competitive and relevant in the AI age. It provides a thorough understanding of AI technology, its potential in the accounting profession, and practical advice on leveraging it to improve your practice. DON'T WAIT FOR THE AI-FUTURE TO ARRIVE. TAKE CONTROL. BUY NOW.
Download or read book Making the Numbers Count written by Brian H. Maskell and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This controversial book unmasks the shortcomings of the traditional role of accountants and shows the inadequacy of running a business based on financial reports. In a world class organization, the management accountant can and should take the lead in establishing performance measures that make a difference, and that empower frontline workers and middle managers to effectively improve their operations. Maskell provides the information management accountants need to become team members, leaders, and real innovators in their organizations.
Download or read book Youtility written by Jay Baer and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-06-27 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The difference between helping and selling is just two letters If you're wondering how to make your products seem more exciting online, you're asking the wrong question. You're not competing for attention only against other similar products. You're competing against your customers' friends and family and viral videos and cute puppies. To win attention these days you must ask a different question: "How can we help?" Jay Baer's Youtility offers a new approach that cuts through the clutter: marketing that is truly, inherently useful. If you sell something, you make a customer today, but if you genuinely help someone, you create a customer for life.
Download or read book Youtility for Accountants written by Jay Baer and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-03-11 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Youtility fundamentally changes how accountants and accounting firms think about marketing and their business. Jay Baer defines “Youtility” as information and resources given away for free to build awareness and trust. Youtility creates awareness, customers, and loyalty over the long-term. Due to enormous shifts in technology and consumer behavior, customers want a new approach that cuts through the clutter: marketing that is truly, inherently useful. The difference between helping and selling is just two letters, but embracing the former makes the latter much, much easier. Meticulously researched, and filled with examples of accountants and accounting firms that have accelerated their business enormously by embracing the principle of Youtility marketing, this special ebook from best selling authors Jay Baer and Darren Root provides a groundbreaking plan for using information and helpfulness to transform the relationship between companies and customers. Based on the New York Times best seller Youtility, this is the playbook for modern marketing effectiveness in the accounting industry.
