Critical Thinking for Accountants

(39 reviews)

by John Taylor

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.

price £75+vat
cpd hours 4 CPD hours
access 120 days' access

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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.

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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

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Author

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.

Reviews

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    Stanka Y
    07 Jan 2025
    07 Jan 2025
    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.
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    Viktoria V
    06 Jan 2025
    06 Jan 2025
    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.
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    Adrian K
    05 Jan 2025
    05 Jan 2025
    Nice course. Some of the points or arguments are common sense which makes this course more as a refresher for me.
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