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Economics Every Accountant Should Know

(31 reviews)
by Alan Nelson

Economic concepts can help us to make better decisions. This course will challenge and develop the way you think about pricing, strategy, investment appraisal and customer relationships.

£100+vat
4 CPD hours
120 days' access

This course will enable you to

  • Use microeconomics to help you make business decisions
  • Use supply & demand analysis of markets to understand and maximise your competitive position
  • Create a strategy to secure consumer surplus and increase revenue and profitability
  • Build opportunity cost into your investment appraisal systems
  • Use the price elasticity of your products or services to maximise revenue
  • About the course

      Economics is familiar to all of us. We hear about it every day on the news and we study it as part of our professional qualification. But how many of us understand how to use it to make better business decisions?

      This course focuses on how accountants can use economic concepts to underpin pricing strategies and investment decisions, to create market and product strategies and to strengthen and better understand relationships with customers.

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    Alan Nelson

    Alan Nelson is the founder of accountingcpd and has a keen interest in economics and in management skills training in the accountancy profession. He has been Chair of ICAEW's Practice Assurance Committee, and a member of ACCA's SME Committee and of IFA's Regulatory Committee. He is currently a member of the Bank of England's Decision Making Panel.

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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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