The world is always changing and always evolving. It seems as though nothing stays the same. Fortunately for businesses, there are some practices that will remain the same through the years. These core values and principles hold businesses together and help them grow in the future. The Maryland Association of CPAs shared their insights for the Top 5 Skills that CPAs Need Now, and we would like to share them with you too.
- Leadership: The ability to develop and share insights and the aptitude to mobilize and inspire others to action. Leadership is about finding possibilities and developing people, utilizing their strengths, and shaping the future.
- Communications: Able to give and exchange information with meaningful context and appropriate delivery and interpersonal skills. It includes the ability to make thinking visible to others in a way they can easily grasp.
- Strategic thinking: A future-minded and flexible mindset that thinks critically and creatively. The ability to link data, knowledge and insights together to provide quality advice for strategic decision-making.
- Collaboration and synthesis: Being effective at engaging others and working across boundaries to turn challenges into opportunities, including the ability to consider the whole picture (past, present, and future context) and create alternatives and options for the future.
- Being tech savvy: Anticipating technology changes and how they can benefit others. Being adept at standardizing data for transparency, efficient exchange, and visualization.
Check out the the full article from MACPA here .