How to Communicate Effectively With Your Accountant

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How to Communicate Effectively With Your
Accountant
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Certified Public Accountant

• The season of filing taxes is a busy one
  especially for Certified Public Accountant, Tax
  consultants or CPA managers. It needs proper time
  management and balance between patiently coaching
  staffers who are less-experienced while urgently
  pushing to the deadline of the next filing
  season.
• As managers, you must be able to identify and
  correct every errors, as well as offer effective
  advice to staffers to prevents such error from
  happening again. Otherwise, the managers will be
  the one to fix the same problems over and
  overand their staff will fail to improve.

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• An essential tool for building a great team is
  through good communication. Provided below are
  some tips from well-experienced tax managers and
  tax consultants that focuses on giving effective
  coaching and feedback to tax preparers

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Get to know your Team Members

• Supervising a personnel who happens to be your
  peer or just a few years younger than you may be
  challenging at times, especially if you want to
  establish yourself as the group's leader.
• What you can do is to use the times when you are
  not too busy to establish good relationships.

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Be Clear and Concise

• When giving constructive criticism, avoid beating
  around the bush or sugar-coating feedback.
• You must also learn to put yourself in the
  position of the person receiving the feedback.

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Balance the Negative and the Positive

• A well-balanced feedback, positive and negative
  ones, allows the members of the team to feel
  appreciated, valued, and continue to grow in
  their careers.
• Some firms even conduct a monthly meeting just to
  recognize a person who did a well-done job.

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Communicate in a Variety of Ways

• People are unique and they learn in various ways.
  Some benefit from self-study or reading, while
  others need hands-on training.
• With this, to retain information, the employees
  may need coaching in different ways.

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Follow Up Quickly

• It may not always be realistic to stop and coach
  a tax preparer on how to correct his or her
  mistake when you and your team are busy meeting a
  stressful deadline.
• A lot of tax managers get very busy and set aside
  the necessary feedback for too long. Don't
  address the issue months after it happens because
  it's not as effective as addressing the problem
  right then.

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Admit when youre Wrong

• It may be embarrassing or hard to admit a
  mistake, but it's important to come clean.
• When you know how to own up to errors, you are
  setting a good example for your team.

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• To conclude, a good and proper way of
  communication will help you correct errors the
  right way and help you further develop the skills
  of your staff.
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