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Dates and location
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Description
A well-written report is an opportunity for you to demonstrate sound decision-making, regulatory compliance, and numerical accuracy. Nothing is more important than gaining a stakeholder’s trust in the integrity of your accounting services.
Writing a report is one of the primary means by which CPAs explain their work to stakeholders. This seminar covers the three levels of effective report writing. Beginning at the sentence level, you will learn how to communicate technical concepts in a way that your readers will easily understand. Next, at the paragraph level, you will learn how to deliver various pieces of information in the correct order. And finally, at the document level, you will learn how to tie everything together.
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Topics Include:
- Sentence Level:
- Explaining sophisticated concepts to both experts and laypeople.
- Paragraph Level:
- Delivering "familiar information" before "unfamiliar information".
- Document Level:
- Writing executive summaries.
- Making smooth transitions.
- Developing logical arguments.
- Achieving uniformity among multiple authors.
- Understanding how a reader absorbs information.
Key Takeaways
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
- Get their message across to both technical and non-technical readers.
- Gain the approval of busy readers, such as executives and board members.
- Design reports that are easy to navigate.
- Use language that readers can comprehend without the need for an oral explanation.
- Understand how readers process information as they move throughout a document.
Who Will Benefit
This course is intended for anyone who drafts or edits reports. The course has dozens of tips for writing to industry experts, but it is an indispensable resource for writing to non-technical stakeholders. These stakeholders could be internal, such as a board of directors, or external, such as the general public.
How to Access the Course
This course is a live webinar. You must attend the live course to receive verifiable CPD hours. We recommend you join five minutes prior to the scheduled starting time. To get the full experience of this interactive course, use a computer that has video and microphone capabilities.
Electronic material can be accessed one week prior to the course and should be downloaded in advance.
Registration, cancellation, withdrawal and all other CPA Ontario PD policies can be found here.
Speaker(s)
Ryan Standil leads seminars on the topic of effective written communication. He teaches at CPA Ontario, the Law Society of Ontario, individual firms, large corporations, and government organizations. Ryan attended Western University, where he graduated from the Ivey Business School and the Faculty of Law. After graduating, Ryan joined a corporate law firm in Toronto. Today he owns and operates a seminar company, called Write To Excite.