How Enabling Accountants Work Life Balance Impacts Accounting in Businesses

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It will further be used to advise organizations on best models to adopt in businesses in order to allow the accountants to achieve work-life balance. The report focuses on why work-life balance is important not just for the individual accountant but also for the whole organization especially on accounting issues such as taxation and auditing. Also, the report will provide information as to why there exists a conflict between work and life, and what causes this conflict. Further, the project will elaborate more on why accounting in business is important while providing some of the problems related to work-life balance that accountants face. b) Audience of the Report The report shall be written for the Manager David Brown while it shall be meant for both accountants and non-accountants.

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2d) Information Sources When writing the report key sources of information that shall be included in the report regarding how enabling the accountant work-life balance impacts business shall be obtained from the following sources: Buddhapriya, S. Balancing Work and Life: Implications for Business.  Indian Journal of Industrial Relations, 41(2), 233-247. Retrieved from http://www. jstor. Bottom of Form Clutterbuck, D.  Managing work-life balance: A guide for HR in achieving organisational and individual change. London: Fisher, Phillip. "The Accountant's Guide to Work/life Balance: Introduction. " AccountingWEB, 23 Oct. "Roles and Importance of Professional Accountants in Business | IFAC. " IFAC |, 21 Oct.  2013, www. ifac. org/news-events/2013-10/roles-and-importance-professional-accountants-business Pasamar Sussana, Valle Cabrera Ramón, (2013) "Work-life balance under challenging financial and economic conditions", International Journal of Manpower, Vol.

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org/10. 1093/eurpub/cku010 e) Key Words Key words to be used in the report shall include Work-life balance, Accountant, Work- family Balance and Policies. 3) Analysis of the Sources When writing this report, important background reading shall be conducted on all the sources which shall act as key sources of information that will be included in the report regarding how enabling the accountant work-life balance impacts business including the following: Buddhapriya, S. Balancing Work and Life: Implications for Business.  Indian Journal of Industrial Relations, 41(2), 233-247. Clutterbuck, D.  Managing work-life balance: A guide for HR in achieving organizational and individual change. London: This book summarizes in details what work-life balance means by clearly stipulating the roles of the human resource the top management and also what employees should be provided with in order to achieve the work life balance.

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The author David Clutterbuck is a professor and one of the world’s most provoking and entertaining speaker and writer who focus on human resources and management and is based in London. He is an author of more than fifty four books including the book Managing Work-life Balance Which shall be used in the report since it shows managers how to engage employees , employers and managers in the process of trying to control the conflicts that exists between the workloads home responsibilities and individual aspirations. It emphasizes that accountants are not tax agents and independent auditors but also they act for the interest of the general public especially where investment decisions have to be made. The web source is reliable since the article originally appeared in China Accounting Journal which was published by Chinese Institute of CPA’s.

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