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Critical Thinking for Accountants

(43 reviews)
by John Taylor

Critical thinking is becoming increasingly vital for accountants, as businesses depend on you to deliver insight, analysis, and proposals to improve your or your clients' business. This course examines critical thinking techniques and provides practical guidance on using them to benefit the organisations you work with.

£100+vat
4 CPD hours
120 days' access

This course will enable you to

  • Understand critical thinking and use it to benefit the organisations you work with.
  • Overcome the logical fallacies, flawed arguments and unfounded assumptions that lead to bad decisions.
  • Improve your decision making by being honest with yourself and reflecting critically.
  • Apply critical thinking to present engaging and informative reports.

About the course

Critical thinking is becoming increasingly important for accountants. Your clients are looking to you for more analytical engagement. For accountants in business, critical thinking is an important skill to enable you to help your business achieve its potential.

This course explores critical thinking techniques and provides practical advice and tips on how to use them to benefit the organisations you work with.

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Author

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John Taylor

John is a Chartered Accountant who has spent many years advising small and medium-sized businesses across the North of England. John is the author of two industry standard textbooks: Millichamp - Auditing and Forensic Accounting. He has also written several auditing textbooks for AAT courses.

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Smith J
19 Nov 2025
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Smith J
19 Nov 2025
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Smith J
19 Nov 2025
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