One of the best ways to improve your data analysis skills isn’t by spending more time with spreadsheets — it’s by sharpening your critical thinking skills.
Critical thinking — the iterative framework we use to analyze, challenge, clarify, synthesize, test, and apply information to find solutions, as the AICPA® & CIMA® CPE course “CQ Originals: Critical Thinking” puts it — is a learned skill that’s essential for anyone in a data-centric profession.
Ray Sang, CPA/CITP, CISA, built his accounting career