As chartered accountants increasingly help colleagues or clients navigate a complex world of data and information, they must to learn to become better communicators, argues Peter Margaritis, author of ‘The Accidental Accountant’.
When Peter Margaritis stands up in front of a class of accountants, the first question he likes to ask them is, ‘How many of you speak a foreign language?’. And after some have proudly listed their accomplishments, he tells them that they all do: “You speak the language of accounting.”
Margaritis is a non-practicing US Certified Public Accountant whose book ‘
The Accidental Accountant’ on communicating financial information is used in a number of undergraduate courses in the US.