- Intellectual Skills - Skills of mental functioning, independent of specific training and knowledge
- Identifying key concepts and summarizing and abstracting essential parts
- Integrating concepts and facts to form knowledge and wisdom
- Working, thinking and deciding independently
- Judging situations in a professional manner
- Solving problems rapidly and effectively
- Debating and arguing logically
- Conducting research and interpreting findings
- Visioning future scenarios
- Communication Skills - Skills concerned with personally sending and receiving information
- Talking clearly and persuasively
- Writing in a succint and informative manner to match the vocabulary of the audience
- Presenting information effectively through the use of graphical and electronic aids
- Effectively using communications technologies such as e-mail, computer and video conferencing
- Listening and comprehending content from all forms of communication
- Interpersonal Skills - Skills concerned with operating one-on-one with other people in small groups in large organizations
- Dealing effectively with other people
- Interacting with culturally and intellectually diverse people
- Respecting alternative viewpoints and interpretations
- Understanding the behavioral implications of decisions
- Leading groups of people
- Negotiating compromise effectively
- Managing conflict
- Managing change
- Organizational Skills - Skills concerned with recognizing macropatterns of behavior and the factors which influence them
- Knowing the nature of roles and services in an organization
- Awareness of the impact of financial accounting policies on the organization's culture.
- Professional Skills/Values - Skills or values expected of a professional accountant in our society.
- Behaving ethically according to a basic code of moral behavior
- Adhering to a specific professional code of conduct
- Providing services to clients that meet professional standards of quality and process
- Developing service relationships with clients
- Managing projects and personal time
- Making a commitment to lifelong learning
