<p>There are countless places where you can find tips for better writing. They’ll all say you should be brief. Cut out the waffle and the jargon. The point of cutting your draft is not to make it shorter, but to <strong>make it better&
<p>Why not write your next finance report the Axios way.</p> <p>The <a href="https://www.axios.com">Axios</a> mission statement is “Axios gets you smarter, faster on what matters.” They’re focused on the
<p>In accounting, substance trumps form.</p> <p>In writing about accounting, it doesn’t. The form of what you write is as important as the substance.</p> <p>Whenever you write something – whether an email, a business plan, a
Reports have three dimensions that you can change. These are the **content** (the words, numbers, graphs and tables you use to convey your message), the **structure** (how you organise the information you want to communicate), and the **style** (how you set out your content on the page or screen so
 Excel transformed the world. No question. The first impact that Excel made was nothing to do with its functionality; it was the way it looked. Excel arrived along with the Windows operating system. Excel allowed a user to format cells. You could have
> Put the real subject matter — the point — and even the conclusion, in the opening paragraph and the whole story on one page. Period! This instruction was written 80 years ago this week. The [whole memo](https://archive.org/details/Maverick1944MemoAboutGobbledygook) has only 129 words. If you are in a
I got an email today from The North Face explaining a data breach. Reading the email was like climbing the north face.  This is the opening section of the email ... > On December 13, we detected unauthorized activities on a part
Have you ever thought about how you write abbreviations? Accountants and auditors will often find themselves using technical terms and long titles that it is best to abbreviate after their first use. Some abbreviations, such as BBC, UK and USA, are so well-known they can be used without ever writing
But that doesn’t mean that accountants should not improve their writing skills. Accounting is about words as well as numbers. All that classifying and analysing of financial data is pointless if its meaning is not communicated. That’s why I keep writing posts about the need for accountants to
 Last year a colleague sent me a photo he took during a presentation. The presenter had a slide with a stacked column chart with 24 columns of data that filled the whole slide. The legend was too small to read. Overlaying the central
That's my key takeaway from listening to this [this episode](https://lnkd.in/exVV_6w2) of the Fixable podcast. The podcast features [Todd Rogers](https://scholar.harvard.edu/todd_rogers/home), a professor at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, who is a co-author of Writing for
Here are seven things to do when creating and delivering a finance presentation to make sure it's a success. 1. **Chastity**. Be confident but don’t be a show-off. That can be a fine line to tread. The main thing is to remember that you are there for