Accountants Need Soft Skills

Santhosh Thaikkadan (CS Professional Programme Student)   (876 Points)

08 March 2011  

Accountants Need Soft Skills

"Technical and technological skills are essential, but they're not enough.

 

Accounting and finance professionals looking to advance their careers will need solid technical skills, as they always have, but increasingly they also will need soft skills

 

Soft skills --including the ability to write and present persuasively --are what enables

 

“Leaders to educate and lead"

 

"Finance and accounting professionals no longer work in isolation and they're as responsible for generating revenue and profit as everyone else.

 

To succeed, they'll need a broader skill set than traditionally has been the case"

 

Soft skills include

 

written

 

verbal

 

presentation and

 

interpersonal capabilities.