Your career won’t progress far unless you can speak the language of money. Start your lessons today!

In this new series, Enterprise Skills for Engineers, we lift the lid on the most important determinants of a brilliant and successful career.

And they're probably not what you think...?

Forget about what you learned in your undergraduate or post-graduate degrees. They're foundational. They're expected.

Enterprise Skills are the ones that will set you apart from your competition. When it comes to career acceleration, earning potential and advancement, they are the nuclear weapons in your arsenal. Make no mistake, these are the career differentiators. So get to know them and get good at them.

First off, we examine Financial Literacy. It turns out engineers have a gift for finance. They're extraordinarily quantitative and numerate but then tend to let finance and accounting slide on by as they pursue their purest engineering.

The smart ones don't. They do double degrees in engineering and finance and/or develop a deep understanding of how money is made, how it travels around and in and out of a business and how it is accounted for.

There are 10 concepts you must master and to save you time, we've fleshed them out for you here so you can light the afterburner on your brilliant career.

Want to know what you need to know?

DOWNLOAD our Financial Literacy Fast Fact Sheet below!