No one (except the IRS) starts writing with the hope that they will bore their readers. Yet so often, financial writing is ignored or misunderstood because the language is not compelling. Clear, concise writing contributes to your business success in myriad ways: Enabling you to persuade a client to follow your advice, convincing a manager to adopt a new initiative, informing your clients of crucial information in a way they will welcome and understand, and much more.
In this fast-paced course, you will learn six key principles of successful business writing for finance professionals. The principles include preferring the active voice, omitting unnecessary words, and simplifying sentence structure.
Applying this knowledge will bring new levels of clarity to your written communication. With that clarity will come a connection to your reader and positive business results.
Course Key Concepts: Business writing, communication skills, financial writing, persuasive writing, technical writing, writing for CPAs, active voice, simple language, clear writing, writing clearly.
Prerequisites
No advance preparation or prerequisites are required for this course.
Learning Objective
- Discover a nominalization in a sentence and change it to a verb.
- Recognize the passive voice in a sentence and change it to the active voice.
- Recognize the difference between parallel and non-parallel constructions.
- Identify the optimal average number of words in a sentence.
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INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW
WRITING ESSENTIALS
- Write with Verbs 9:43
- Use the active voice 12:36
- Omit needless words 8:33
- Use parallel construction 11:07
- Write Simpler Sentences 17:54
- Write for your Reader 5:51
EDITING ESSENTIALS
- Essentials of Editing 6:45
- Write Straight Through f\First Draft 6:08
- Put Your Work Aside Between Writing and Revision 4:19
- More on Editing 10:07
- Proofread carefully 13:38
- Editing for Others 12:18
- Summary and Conclusion 9:24
CONTINUOUS PLAY
SUPPORTING MATERIAL
- Slides: Clear Writing and Editing for Finance Professionals PDF
- Clear Writing and Editing for Finance Professionals Glossary/ Index PDF
- Workbook: Clear Writing and Editing for Finance Professionals PDF
REVIEW AND TEST
- REVIEW QUESTIONS quiz
- FINAL EXAM exam
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