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

(45 customer reviews)

£150 +VAT

4 CPD Course

365 days’ access

Use ACPD101 for 10% off any purchase.

Critical Thinking for Accountants

(45 customer reviews)

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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.

45 reviews for Critical Thinking for Accountants

  1. Keng Yat Chan –

    The course was well structured and easy to understand. Could have used with an example of a well written report.

  2. Jose Julio Pisharello –

    good content and advice

  3. Venita M.E. Farrell-Cabey –

    This course will help in my report writing skills.

  4. Maduo Keatlaretse Kgosi –

    Loved it. Very insightful

  5. Veronica Smith –

    Very good presentation of key points, and good at identifying areas for me to work on for my own self development

  6. Alan McCartin –

    The use of scenarios is very helpful and engaging.

  7. Stanka Yancheva –

    The course was well structured; has interactive means such as videos and open questions. It encourages the reader to pay attention and get a good understanding on the content. Materials were also available for download.

  8. Viktoria Vlaeva-Chavdarova –

    The course was interesting, definitely i’ve learned a lot of new things an hopefully i will have the opportunity to improve them in my daily working! Maybe i bit more interaction will be better – more real life cases and quizzes that would make you overthink and practice you own critical thinking skills.

  9. Adrian Kalchev –

    Nice course. Some of the points or arguments are common sense which makes this course more as a refresher for me.

  10. Tufel Ahmed Miah –

    This course has been incredibly insightful, offering practical knowledge I can apply in my work and real-life scenarios. I have learned how to assess information critically, make informed decisions, and recognise the impact of cognitive biases. The concepts taught, such as heuristics, are particularly relevant in speeding up decision-making in uncertain situations, like the example of a traveller in lion country responding to a rustling in the bushes. I appreciated the emphasis on balancing risk and uncertainty, as captured perfectly in the phrase, “There is risk and uncertainty, unknown unknowns.” This captures the unpredictability of real-world situations and the importance of adaptability and thoughtfulness in decision-making. Overall, this course has given me a structured approach to problem-solving and critical thinking, which will be invaluable in my professional and personal life.

  11. Mogomotsi Mogapi –

    amazing

  12. Daniele Joseph –

    Very informative

  13. Elizabeth Smith –

    I really enjoyed this course, it made me do some self reflection of myself and how I approach situations

  14. Dawn Nixon –

    Very interesting course, in good size subjects

  15. Jermyl Jn Baptiste –

    This course was very informative and realistic, and the delivery included both written and video presentations.

  16. Alan Smith –

    Gave a good high level understanding of critical thinking and report writing

  17. Fiona Joyce –

    Practical and true reflect on technical skills

  18. Brent Murgatroyd –

    Solid course.

  19. Peter Barren –

    Excellent course that covers all the main points. Helps identify where the participant may want to develop skills further.

  20. Philip Austin –

    Good material Covered the topic well. Liked the videos – informative and entertaining.

  21. Malgorzata Kostecka –

    Good course

  22. David Kelly –

    It was good

  23. Edwin Parr –

    This course provided the information I expected.

  24. Tlang Thomelo –

    This is critical for the Accountant, critical thinking not only on financial reporting but in all aspects.satisfying information/more details must be provided to avoid further questioning

  25. Hilary Wood –

    Very good coverage of the topic of critical thinking, as applied in an accounting role.

  26. Christopher Rodriguez –

    It’s really good to split experience into a structured way of having professional skepticism and re-engaging in a fresh way to one’s own usual approaches.

  27. Aaron Hyam –

    Starts off slowly, but by section 2 onwards becomes a really good summary of a lot of principles, methods and structures we should regularly apply to various aspects of our work. A lot of it will be known to some readers, particularly those with more than a few years’ experience under their belt, but even for them it’ll still be useful as an aide memoire or consolidation of that knowledge all in one place. Good stuff!

  28. Jean-Michel Ahite –

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  29. Athanasios Athanasopoulos –

    #ERROR!

  30. Ken Heade –

    I liked the presenter. The information is concise and well presented. Missing star is for some repetition in the content.

  31. Abhirami Gnanendran –

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  32. Rebecca Mgadla –

    This is one area that has fully equipped me for my current job. The content was very rich and relevant.

  33. Simon Jordan –

    Good course

  34. Cristina Cutajar –

    Very informative

  35. Nyasha Mkombo –

    Clear and concise course

  36. Linda Brownlie –

    Was useful but minimal takeaways

  37. Robert Harris –

    Very thorough and informative CPD.

  38. Refhilwe Tshepiso Tuelo –

    The course met my expectations.

  39. Gavin Hill –

    Interesting analysis of the processes

  40. Argyris Marcou –

    Excellent presentation!

  41. Radhakrishnan Kunnathery Pallathmadham –

    Very useful concept.

  42. Dimitrios Betis –

  43. Allan Young –

    Reminded me of things that I largely already knew but also highlighted other things that I should consider.

  44. Botho Lekoko –

    The course will help me in performing my day to day duties

  45. Francis Nyasha Mubika –

    The course was very informative, engaging and it often related to practical scenarios l am facing in my everyday work.

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