Critical Thinking for Accountants

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Critical thinking is becoming increasingly vital for accountants, as businesses depend on you to deliver insight, analysis, and proposals to improve your or your clients’ business. This course examines critical thinking techniques and provides practical guidance on using them to benefit the organisations you work with.

£150 +VAT

4 CPD hours

365 days’ access

Use ACPD101 for 10% off any purchase.

Critical Thinking for Accountants

£150 +VAT

4 CPD Course

365 days’ access

Use ACPD101 for 10% off any purchase.

Critical Thinking for Accountants

This course is not currently available. To find out more, please get in touch.

This course will enable you to

  • Understand critical thinking and use it to benefit the organisations you work with.
  • Overcome the logical fallacies, flawed arguments and unfounded assumptions that lead to bad decisions.
  • Improve your decision making by being honest with yourself and reflecting critically.
  • Apply critical thinking to present engaging and informative reports.

About the course

Critical thinking is becoming increasingly important for accountants. Your clients are looking to you for more analytical engagement. For accountants in business, critical thinking is an important skill to enable you to help your business achieve its potential.

This course explores critical thinking techniques and provides practical advice and tips on how to use them to benefit the organisations you work with.

Contents

The concepts

What is critical thinking?
An important skill
Why do accountants need critical thinking skills?
Necessary skills
Professional scepticism
Enhancing our work
Emotional responses
Cognitive biases

Logic and reasoning

Logical thinking
A practical skill
Practical reasoning
Judgement statements
Deductive reasoning
Inductive reasoning
Testing a hypothesis
Flawed arguments

Reflective practice

Professional judgement
Learning to reflect
Critical reflection
Dealing with doubt
For the avoidance of doubt
Decision-making
Improving critical thinking skills
Developing creative solutions

Report writing

Objectives and planning
Setting pen to paper
Gathering information
Analysis, analysis, analysis
A report worth reading
Drawing conclusions
Formatting

Author

John Taylor

John Taylor

John is a Chartered Accountant who has spent many years advising small and medium-sized businesses across the North of England. John is the author of two industry standard textbooks: Millichamp – Auditing and Forensic Accounting. He has also written several auditing textbooks for AAT courses.