Business Writing Series: Writing and Revising for Maximum Impact 2024

Overview

Accountants with good writing skills are more likely to get promoted. What makes good writing good? Short, concise sentences with powerful, energetic verbs and lean word choices. This fast-paced, interactive course teaches you five principles for writing strong sentences. The principles include writing with verbs, using an active voice, simplifying sentences, and focusing on the reader. You will also explore three essential editing principles that provide quick and accurate correction. By taking this course, you will upgrade your capabilities in writing clearly and concisely.

Highlights

• Business writing
• Practice development
• Editing
• Coaching others to write well

Prerequisites

None

Designed For

Young professionals, supervisors and managers.

Objectives

• Replace unnecessary nouns with verbs in a sentence.
• Change the passive voice to the active voice.
• Remove unnecessary words from a sentence.
• Simplify a complex sentence.
• Revise a sample sentence.
• Create strategies for editing

Preparation

None

Notice

This course is provided by a third-party vendor. Please note that login instructions will not be available in the ‘My Upcoming CPE’ section of the NESCPA website. Instead, the login instructions will be sent directly to you via email by the California Education Foundation (CalCPA). Upon completing the course, your hours will be recorded in the ‘My CPE Tracker’ section of the NESCPA website.