Teaching CPAs to be Better Thinkers 2024

Overview

An essential class for those who routinely face complex, high-value decisions in high-stress environments, including CEOs and CFOs, first responders and surgical teams, policymakers, auditors, or investigators. This class takes you beyond critical thinking and teaches you how to use your cognitive strengths to develop a thinking system-powerful cognitive tools that enable better thinking under pressure, deep-structure insights for powerful problem-solving abilities and highly effective communication when it counts, all while building ongoing mental wellness for clarity and avoiding burnout. Learn how to audit your thinking, synthesize your ideas and achieve clarity under pressure. The tools you learn will benefit all areas of your life. You will be a more flexible, adaptable, creative, resilient and confident thinker.

Highlights

• How to develop a thinking system
• Understanding complex problem structures
• Conducting a thinking audit
• Skeptical reasoning
• Systems thinking
• Understanding memory

Prerequisites

None

Designed For

Analysts and investigators, auditors, accountants, attorneys, law enforcement, governance, and compliance professionals, or those working in the IT, HR, legal, or medical profession as well as executives, policymakers and other decision makers interested in improving critical thinking and problem-solving skills.

Objectives

• Recognize thinking approaches to improve emotional reactivity
• Determine "First Principles Thinking" methods
• Identify three decision-making biases that diminish thinking quality

Preparation

None

Notice

This course is provided by a third-party vendor. Please note that login instructions will not be available in the ‘My Upcoming CPE’ section of the NESCPA website. Instead, the login instructions will be sent directly to you via email by the California Education Foundation (CalCPA). Upon completing the course, your hours will be recorded in the ‘My CPE Tracker’ section of the NESCPA website.