Emotional Intelligence in Audit Rooms and Board Meetings: Building Trust, Influence Impact as a Finance Professional

What gets you into the room is not what determines what happens there.Every finance professional knows the feeling. The numbers are right. The report is unimpeachable. And yet - the client pushes back, the board defers, the CFO resists, and nothing changes.Emotional Intelligence in Audit Rooms and Board Meetings explains why.Written by Chartered Accountant and Nucleus Advisors Partner Abhishek Gupta, this is not a psychology textbook. It is a practice-built guide for finance professionals who want to move from technically excellent to genuinely trusted - by promoters, CFOs, boards, audit committees, and investors.Across 18 chapters, Gupta draws on a decade of statutory audits, Ind AS engagements, and board-level advisory to answer the questions professional training never covers: how to read a boardroom before a word is spoken, deliver a going concern finding without breaking a relationship, and build influence with people who hold more power than you.Most books on emotional intelligence are written by psychologists. This one is written by a practising CA - grounded in the exact rooms, relationships, and pressures finance professionals face every day.The central argument is simple: technical knowledge tells you what is true. Emotional intelligence determines whether truth serves anyone.For Chartered Accountants, CFOs, auditors, controllers, and every professional who has walked out of a board meeting knowing they were right - and wondering why nobody listened.

Pagina's: 268, Hardcover, Notion Press