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BUILDING LEADERSHIP Skills to Take Your Career to the Next Level Lease Accounting Software Purpose Built for the Lease Accounting Transition Driving innovation in management accounting | April 2020 BUILDING LEADERSHIP Skills to take your career to the next level Lease Accounting Software Purpose Built for the Lease Accounting Transition FULLY COMPLIANT WITH ASC 842 IFRS 16 GASB 87 See why we're rated #1 by CPAs. Schedule a demo and get $500 off your purchase. LEASEQUERY.COM/DISCOUNT 1-800-880-7270 CONTENTS 32 STEPS TO ETHICAL 8 20 LEADERSHIP Building an ethical organisation starts at the top. Experts offer advice on how to be an ethical leader. 34 NAVIGATING CHANGE One finance leader offers lessons for change management through his experience with IFRS adoption in Nigeria. 36 LEADERSHIP AT THE NEGOTIATING TABLE A former Deloitte CEO is leading change as the commissioner of the US 20 AVOID THESE Women’s National Basketball 6 3 TRAITS OF 14 ROOTING OUT FORCED DIVERSITY AND Association. SUCCESSFUL FINANCE LABOUR FROM SUPPLY INCLUSION MISTAKES LEADERS CHAINS Companies have spent billions 38 LEADING Andrew Harding, FCMA, CFOs and finance departments on diversity and inclusion MEANINGFUL CHANGE CGMA, chief executive– have a significant role to play training, but studies suggest it’s Technology implementations, Management Accounting at the in preventing and detecting not easy to get it right. Here are diversity and inclusion Association of International forced labour in their supply five tips to avoid common initiatives, and volunteer Certified Professional chains. mistakes. service can all succeed when Accountants, sets out three passion is combined with fundamental leadership 24 HELPING DIRECTORS sound business tactics. qualities. 14 STAY AHEAD OF THE GAME 40 BUILDING 8 RIDING THE SUPPLY Corporate boards can follow LEADERSHIP SKILLS AND DEMAND CURVES these five tactics to help THROUGH STRATEGIC The company behind a new businesses flourish in the face VOLUNTEERING brand of inland surf parks has of rapid technological By asking the right questions global plans that match the advances, global competition, before taking a volunteer role, sport’s rising popularity. and fluctuating markets. management accountants can maximise their contribution 12 THE TROUBLE WITH 27 DEVELOPING THE and the leadership skills they TYRES FINANCE PROFESSION gain. 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We have a Third and finally, my view is that makes a good leader has broadened unique view of where the money goes leaders should be allowed to feel — the general leading an army is — or does not go. We know what happens emotions, too — controversial, I know. Inow one of a whole portfolio of when it is added or removed. It helps us For that, resilience is fundamental. It is a leadership styles. It means that top see where businesses can be improved, skill which, if you keep practising it, will jobs can accommodate a variety of which is what leaders are meant to do. serve you well when you reach the top. personalities and personal qualities. Career-wise, you are in a great position to The image of the leader impervious to And leadership is better for that diversity make the move to the C-suite. setbacks or criticism is unrealistic. It is a of approach. This skill means we are well placed to recipe for poor mental health and sets the What are the qualities you value in make a success of Integrated Reporting wrong example. Resilience means being leaders? Determination? Certainty of (IR). This is something we at the able to recover when things go wrong, purpose? Vision? Association have embraced fully because learn lessons, and move on positively. For me, three qualities stand out in a we strongly believe that being able to Then repeat. Anything else lacks good leader.
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