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A blog about public financial management: the fine art of managing public money to deliver vital services to the public. It involves budgeting, accounting, controlling, auditing, reporting, policy-making and decision-taking.
If a picture paints a thousand words, how many words does a table of data save?
However, a table is a wasted opportunity if the reader skips over it.
I have a tip to make the tables in your documents have more impact?
Read MoreLearn how to show the invisible, non-printing formatting characters so that you can fix layout problems in your documents.
Read MoreMy previous post explained some productivity hacks for writing. This post has three hacks to help you manage your email efficiently.
Read MoreThis is the first of what may become a series of posts about productivity.
There are countless podcasts, articles, and blogs about productivity. I’m a listener/reader of some and I don’t think I have ever come across one specifically made or written with accountants in mind.
Allow me to step into that gap with (my first) three tips that I think can be adopted by accountants regardless of the technology they are given to use by their organisation.
Read MoreThis tip is only for accountants with iPhones, iPads or Apple Watches (sorry if that’s not you). Some people are very fast, very accurate typists but most of us are not. I for one, and I suspect most readers of this, can think and speak much faster than I can type. So why type long emails, letters and reports if you can dictate them?
Read MoreGrammarly is a major improvement on the grammar checker built into your word processor because it works on writing everywhere. You can check emails, text messages, Facebook and LinkedIn posts, etc.
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