As an accountant, it is vital to have excellent communication skills. Communication skills can be verbal, written, or non-verbal. When giving presentations, an accountant should keep in mind the audience, their body language, and personal presentation. Accountants also need to be well aware of non-verbal communication when interacting with top management and co-workers. Non-verbal messages receive more attention than verbal messages. Accountants have to make sure this doesn’t happen when they are dealing with clients because it could possibly offend the clients. The accountant should know the client’s background briefly in order to respect cultural differences. Communication skills are needed daily to be an accountant because it creates a confident relationship with clients.

Accountants have to work as a team to reach the goals for their firms daily. In their field, accountants need to be team players. The accounting field has various types of departments such as a billing clerk, bookkeeper, budget analyst, cost accountant, payables clerk, tax accountant and many others. When dealing with clients, it sometimes requires three or four other accountants, from different departments, to work together to give the client the best service. As accountants, they must be prepared to commit to the goals and tasks given to them. Each day they also will need to learn to cooperate well with their team members. If they are having trouble completing a task, accountants should communicate with their co-workers and managers. Accountants should make sure the information runs smoothly.

Accounting is not only about dealing with numbers but also about interpreting those numbers. To interpret these numbers to clients or companies, it is important to have good listening skills, communication skills, and teamwork skills. An accountant’s main goal is to leave each client with a great first impression, and I will make sure of that.