Why are Effective Communication Skills Important for Accounting Professionals?

Regardless of the professions and positions, effective communication has its own place and importance. Effective communication helps individuals to perform their duties in an effective and efficient manner. Not only it enables people to work in a way as needed, but it also helps greatly to  form a coordinated structure facilitating engagement and building trust among them.

English communication skills is the basic requirement to handle a job of accountant effectively and efficiently, because, in addition to performing regular tasks pertaining to accounting, accounting professionals need to draft letters, send emails, prepare reports, interpretations and foot notes for management review, perusal and decisions. They are also required to coordinate with various parties, such as, debtors, creditors, clients, banks or affiliate companies. Hence, improving skills of both verbal and written communication is very much important for accounting professionals.

Good communication skills of verbal and written can open many doors to success including professional development for the employees. Besides, it’s a great help to prepare a strong resume to get a desirable job for job seekers. Strong communication skills also enable the professionals to express themselves clearly.

Some people seem to have this opinion that they do not need to improve English communication skills, as the major part of their job involves dealing with numbers. While it is true that accounting entails working with numbers and they must be good at using numbers in number of different ways as required by the profession, they need to pay enough attention to the importance of developing communication skills. It must be noted that accounting also involves looking beyond the numbers, gathering and preparing reliable information for the intended parties.

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K. A. Fareed (Fareed Siddiqui)
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(PhD-Management)
MA-English, MPhil-English
Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Applications and Programming
Certificate course in English language proficiency
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Accounting Principles and Concepts – Why are they Important?

Being conceptually good enables us to use the acquired knowledge and concepts effectively. Regardless of their chosen field of endeavor, people whose concepts are clear can perform their tasks well and independently. 


Accounting system is based on some concepts and conventions. Accountants all over the world would agree on certain basic points on which accounting theory and practice is based being commonly referred to as accounting concepts and principles. 

They are considered as a broad set of conventions that are meant to provide basic frame work for financial reporting. The importance of these concepts and principles lies in the fact that they are related to the entire Financial accounting process while they affect directly the way the financial reports are prepared. 

Accountants need to apply professional judgments while preparing financial reports, these concepts and principles help them to ensure that they are not being misled and that providing a true and fair view of financial statements is being accomplished.

Following is a list of the major accounting concepts and Principles:

•   Timeliness
•   Faithful Representation
•   Reliability
•   Neutrality
•   Matching Concept
•   Prudence
•   Completeness
•   Entity Concept
•   Money Measurement Concept
•   Understandability
•   Comparability
•   Consistency
•   Materiality
•   Going Concern
•   Accruals
•   Substance Over Form
•   Duality Concept
•   Realization Concept

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Written by:

K. A. Fareed (Fareed Siddiqui)
Writer, Trainer, Author, Blogger, Software Developer
BBA, MBA-Finance, MPhil-Financial Management, (MSc-Software Engineering)
(PhD-Management)
MA-English, MPhil-English
Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Applications and Programming
Certificate course in English language proficiency
Level 1 – Leadership and Management ILM – UK
Pursuing CMA-USA
Individual Member of Institute of Management Consultants of India

Professional articles on business and Management 

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The Benefits of hard work

“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.” – Colin Powell

 It’s undoubtedly true that there is no replacement for hard work, while talent can be replaced with hard work. As it goes in this saying, “Hard work beats talent when talent does not work hard.” And indeed, there is no shortcut to success, but one has to prepare oneself in such a way that the intended results may come out. This is possible when a person works hard and leaves no stone unturned to fulfill his dreams and ambitions in life.

The above saying is full of fact. It also offers an advice not to underestimate the importance of hard work regardless whether or not one is talented. Hard work is necessary if you want to get anywhere in life. Hard work is so important that even if there is a lack of talent, it can be compensated with hard work, but there is no substitute for hard work. It is said to be the stepping stone to success. Hard work does not go waste, but it pays off in the end. Thus, the work you put in is what you get out.

If you work hard and do your best, it develops the sense of satisfaction that you put enough efforts to get the results. On the one hand, hard work improves the chances of success in your mission, on the other hand, it gives you the sense that you are not at fault and you did what was required to do in order to achieve success.

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Written by:

K. A. Fareed (Fareed Siddiqui)
Writer, Trainer, Author, Blogger, Software Developer
BBA, MBA-Finance, MPhil-Financial Management, (MSc-Software Engineering)
(PhD-Management)
MA-English, MPhil-English
Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Applications and Programming
Certificate course in English language proficiency
Level 1 – Leadership and Management ILM – UK
Pursuing CMA-USA
Individual Member of Institute of Management Consultants of India

Professional articles on business and Management 

My You tube Videos and Presentations