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Emerging Technology in the Accounting Industry: Instrument not Obstacle

Tom Spencer

The fact that documents are stored electronically paired with bookkeeping software means that collecting relevant statements and documents for the audit can be done more effectively and efficiently. This can be a difficult task as you have only around 5 minutes to create a video recorded answer.

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IT Consulting: What’s All the Fuss about ‘Soft Skills’

Tom Spencer

I believe this is especially the case with ‘soft skills’, a term which is often mocked as an empty excuse for applying to undersubscribed university courses. Nevertheless, a case study of the IT consulting segment can readily showcase the real-life application of soft skills.

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Before Day 1: Taking Advantage of the In-Between

Tom Spencer

If you are returning to school, take a wildly different class than your course of study. You were probably practicing case studies daily, so it should be easy to replace this daily discipline with practicing a new language every day. Learn a New Skill. Not returning to school or filled your schedule up already?

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Top 11 Must-Read Project Management Books

Epicflow

At the same time, the amount of information in any domain is unprecedentedly huge – courses, books, education websites, blogs, etc. Project Management Case Studies by Harold Kerzner Studying your colleagues’ practical cases is an integral part of learning and professional development.

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7 secrets for presenting to prospects you want to turn into clients

Rod Burkert

Speaking to 1-to-many audiences like these falls between the extremes of 1-to-1 meetings and 1-to-masses social media, except it is both efficient and effective. Efficient because you could be “meeting” with anywhere from 5 to 500 people at the same time. 6 – Offer one or two case studies. Of course he doesn’t.

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When Is Teamwork Really Necessary?

Harvard Business

Catherine, a senior marketing director leading a cross-functional product development team at the same company, provides a contrasting case study. The biggest difference between these two situations lies, of course, in the amount of interdependency among group members and the resulting teamwork necessary.

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Leadership Development Should Focus on Experiments

Harvard Business

In other words, leadership development begins with a real business challenge that leaders need to solve, instead of with a hypothetical case study or simulation. product pricing, operational efficiency, customer service, etc.). .” product pricing, operational efficiency, customer service, etc.).