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5 Soft Skill Courses for CPAs Under $100

As a CPA, you’ve perfected your technical skills over many years of study and practice. What we often hear from CPAs though is how important it is to develop soft skills from the beginning and throughout their career. It’s the soft skills, like communication, leadership and interpersonal skills, that have helped them grow and move up through the profession. Help build your confidence, teamwork and productivity through our professional development courses developed with CPAs in mind.

Find the course you need to help develop your career:

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Practice Management: Efficient File Review

Say goodbye to file clutter by learning to minimize, conduct efficient documentation and give and clear review notes. This course is for everyone who wants to create an effective and efficient approach to conducting file and working paper reviews on assurance and other engagements.

Strengthening Communications with Clients

Sometimes it’s not what you say but how you say it. Learn effective techniques for formal and informal conversations, including the STAR method, active listening, how to Identify barriers to communication and how to overcome them.

SMART Goals: Be a Better Goal Setter

Learn goal-setting strategies for creating specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound (SMART) objectives. This course provides interactive simulations, illustrative concepts and participatory exercises to help you develop your goals and set winning clear-cut strategies.

Putting Ethics into Practice

Build a stronger ethical culture in your firm through this practical review of ethical decision-making frameworks and how they can be put into use. Learn to recognize biases and how they impact our ability to make the right decisions through the use of scenarios, illustrative examples and practical guidance. For further ethics course suggestions, see our article 5 Courses for CPAs to Improve Ethical Decision-Making.

Anti-Racism and Harassment in the Workplace

This course educates and empowers employees and managers and illustrates common themes of race-based discrimination and sexual harassment arising in North American workplaces. Through interactive, gamified activities you’ll learn to how to respond to incidents and to support affected colleagues.

Get ahead in your career with our selection of soft skill courses for CPAs. Get the right tools, insights and frameworks through our professional development offerings to help you become confident in your skills in the workplace.