Above and beyond accounting, you need business know-how.
By Sandi Smith Leyva, CPA
Accountant’s Accelerator
We’ve worked super-hard on gaining our accounting, tax, and auditing skills. Those skills alone will keep us working as employees for someone else, but what if we want to go out on our own or grow our business beyond what we have now?
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Here are five skills to consider adding to your toolbox so you can get ahead faster. How do you rate in each of these areas?
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