INTHEBLACK June/July 2024 - Magazine - Page 12
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Our top reads for accountants and finance professionals
Elevate: Unlock Your
Extraordinary Potential
Shannah Kennedy and
Colleen Callander
Penguin Life
Accounting Fundamentals: A
Non-Finance Manager’s Guide
to Finance and Accounting
Shihan Sheriff CPA
Self-published
Life, leadership and longevity are
the three pillars on which life coach
Shannah Kennedy and former
Sportsgirl CEO Colleen Callander
have built their launchpad from
mundane into extraordinary.
Their book aims to help readers
identify and capitalise on their strengths, gain
insights into their limitations and create an action
plan to help elevate every aspect of their lives –
career included.
Abundant checklists, matrices, tables and templates
help turn the tome into an actionable workbook,
and there is plenty of food for thought on topics
such as personal brand, work habits, confidence
and productivity.
Billionaire investor Warren Buffett
has called accounting “the language
of business”, one that anyone
involved in the corporate world
needs to speak as well as their
native tongue.
This book, penned by
Shihan Sheriff CPA, aims to help non-accountants close
the “language gap” by explaining the ABCs of accounting in
plain language. The subject matter ranges from the most
basic accounting concepts and terminology, to taxation,
budgeting and forecasting, and business planning.
Each chapter ends with a short quiz and a concise
summary of chapter takeaways, making it a useful
primer for business owners, managers and anyone
looking to improve their financial literacy.
Great Change: The Way
to Get Big Strategy Done
Principled:
10 Leadership Practices
for Building Trust
Adam Bennett
Wiley
Change is inevitable, but it is
often difficult to execute well,
particularly on a department-wide
or company-wide scale.
Few understand this better than
Adam Bennett, former CEO and
adjunct professor at the University
of Technology Sydney.
His book offers a practical
blueprint for successful business transformation that
is in equal measure achievable and measurable.
Chapter by chapter, the book delves into different aspects
of change, including mindsets and mechanics, culminating
in a hands-on guide for planning and managing the first
critical 90 days of transformative change. There are plenty
of real-life examples and practical tips to illustrate the key
points and a lot of useful takeaways for leaders at all levels.
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Dr Paul Browning
University of Queensland Press
Trust is the most coveted
leadership attribute. It can be
the most difficult to achieve and,
when lost, can have disastrous
consequences.
The author, Dr Paul Browning,
is an independent school principal
with more than two decades
of experience. In this book, Browning shares his personal
experiences of trust lost and regained as he helped
students and staff navigate the Royal Commission
on Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
Browning combines his confronting experiences with
evidence-based research to offer lessons in trust that
business leaders can implement to improve corporate
culture and better navigate ethical dilemmas.
