How to Make an IMPACT: Influence, Inform and Impress with Your Reports, Presentations and Business Documents (Financial Times Series)

This book is one of those that you really want to read - it's clear, well-written and helps you to begin making an impact from the first chapter. It's price on Amazon is an absolute bargain: now no-one has any excuses for turning in shoddily-presented documents.

In my view, "Impact" is essential reading and deserves a place among the business writing classics.

Jon Moon has pulled off quite a trick in persuading the accountancy world that the clear, unequivocal presentation of their data is as important as the content itself. For what is the purpose of producing data if it is not to inform and spread light? The extended boom of the nineties and early noughties allowed data to be insufficiently analysed and understood without real cost due to the "rising tide" effect. Now investors, regulators,journalists and,crucially, senior managers must receive financial information and commentary that has real impact. Jon's book now stands as THE guide as to how to achieve this.

Being introduced to the WIT concept has shown marked improvements in data presentation - thank you

This is a cracking book for anyone who produces reports, proposals powerpoint slideshows, quotes, CVs.
It is full of helpful tips and ideas for transforming the quality of your written presentations. They are mostly really easy to use and like all the best ideas they leave you wondering why you didn't think of it yourself.
I'm now implementing the ideas across our business. Hard to think of £10 better spent.

Does just what it says on the cover - it tells you how to make an impact.
After reading this book, even just from reading the first chapter, I realised just how consistently badly we all present information at work, and without a second thought too. We spend so long gathering the data but don't spend a few minutes to make sure it is presented well. And once you realise this and understand how to improve things, it is so easy to do.

My husband chanced upon this book in the library. We fought (not quite literally) over who should read it first after I 'stole' it off him part-way through. I even took it to read on holiday in Greece as the author writes with a good tinge of British humour, which even makes it an enjoyable read. And finally we bought a copy of our own so that we can always refer to it - and we almost never buy books as we're too stingy (my husband's an accountant!).

If that hasn't quite 'sold' it to you, what more can I say??? Well, this is a FANTASTIC book and not just for accountants - I'm not one and it has helped me enormously. I know that the information I present is clear and concise and my boss thinks I'm (even more) wonderful!!

I can't recommend it more.
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