Accounting Best Practices, Fifth Edition

18–9. General Policies for Best Practices (Chapter 13)

• The company supports a formal training program for all employees, and requires the consideration of such training during the employee review process. This policy is certainly a useful tool for attracting new employees, but also supports the creation of a number of training programs within the accounting department.

  Impacted best practices:

  • Create accounting training teams

  • Create an ongoing training program for all accounting personnel

  • Create computer-based training movies

  • Implement cross-training for mission-critical activities