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Tell me about the most challenging tax preparation you have ever done?

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What is your experience with excel?

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What is meant by single audit process?

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Explain to me GAAP.

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Can we deduct TDS on hire purchases?

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What are the payroll inputs?

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What is your knowledge and experience using Quickbooks?

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How do you label a reconciliation spreadsheet for a customer that is billed monthly in advanced?

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Give me examples of the accounting reports you have prepared?

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Give me an example of a sub ledger?

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What is the component level default processing?

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What type of auditing experience do you have?

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What salary are you seeking?

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What are the vital attributes present in an audit report?

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Why does a company require an accounts payable process?

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What is the meaning of GL reconciliation?

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What is the difference between tangible and intangible assets?

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What is the difference between singel and double entry?

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Where is audit data stored?

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Describe to me a difficult situation at work and you how disfused it?

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Can you work under high pressure business situations?

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Explain to me the weighted cost of capital?

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Are you prepared to work side-by-side with well diversed personalities?

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If you have done bookkeeping in the past for small businesses, tell me about your experience doing that.

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What is the difference between CTC and Salary?

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Do you plan to open up your own accounting firm?

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What is a bank guarantee?

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How do you calculate aging dates?

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Define a bad employee?

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How committed are you to work the hours necessary around tax season?

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How many invoices have you handled on a monthly basis, in the past?

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What are you future plans with the company?

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What is a fiscal year?

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What is the difference between direct and indirect expenses?

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How soon do you plan to achieve partner?

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What is the difference between nominal, real, and personal accounts?

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What is the accounts payable cycle?

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What is the difference between letter of credit and letter of guarantee?

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What is consolidation?

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How do subledgers integrate with GL?

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What is the planning budget in a general ledger?

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Tell me about invoice discrepancy that you discovered and how you resolved the discrepancy?

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What is the difference between debenture and preference share?

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Explain to a ten year old what a balance sheet is?

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What is notional cost?

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What is the difference between cost accounting and management accounting?

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What is the difference between account payables and bills payable?

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What entry is recored when $90.00 of supplies are purchased on account?

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What is the meaning of per diem?

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What is form 1099?

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What experience do you have with general ledger?

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What is an accrual?

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What is your defintion of business?

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I dislike to ask this question, but in what area of accounting are you the weakest?

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What is GAP analysis?

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What is the future period and adjustment period?

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Can you describe to me the scenario of a multi-organization set up?

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How difficult is it to set up an LLC?

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Why do companies need adjusting journal entries?

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Explain to me the different ratios in accounting?

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How do you record retained earnings when you sold company shares for closing of the books?

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What is the golden rule of accounting?

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Which accounting applications are you familiar with?

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What courses did you like best in your preparation to be an accountant?

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In which areas of accounting would you say you are the best at?

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When do you plan on attaining your CPA?

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Tell us about any accounting process that you have either developed or revised?

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Why have you choosen a career in accounting?

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What aspects of accounting do you dislike the most?

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In detail, tell me what Sarbanes-Oxley act has changed accounting?

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Explan to me Activity Based Accounting?

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What are variable costs?

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Tell me about an invoice discreptancy you have discovered in the past, and what you did about it?

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What information do you require before you approve an invoice for payment?

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Describe to me any account process that you have developed or revised?

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Give me your thoughts on Sarbanes-Oxley?

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What cost-cutting measure have you been in charge of implenting?

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How do you keep updated on all the accounting rules and techniques?

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Discuss your experience in tax planning and preparation?

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Tell me about the most challenging audit you have ever done?

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Give me examples of internal control procedures that you have developed and maintained?

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Discuss your experience in financial analysis of your previous companies projects?

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Tell me about the financial forecasting that you have been responsible for?

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What are the steps you take to approve an invoice before payment?

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What is the general ledger?

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Explain to a 14 year old girl/boy how depreciation works?

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What is the minimum alternative tax?

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In the past, how many employees were under your payroll?

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If you are just coming out of college, what classes did you take to gain valueable knowledge in payroll?

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What is a payroll disbursement journal?

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What software do you have experience in, when dealing with payroll?

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What about payroll do you like?

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Would you make it mandatory for your employees to be on direct deposit?

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What are the general deductions made while doing payroll for an employee in an organization?

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How would you account for the leasing of a vehicle?

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What are the procedures of elimination during consolidation of financial statements?

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What is your experience with cash flow statements?

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How does higher management benefit from payroll reports?

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What is retropay?

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What is the purpose of an audit comittee inside a firm and its role with external auditors?

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How can you link between materiality and audit report?

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Explain to me different types of audits.

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Tell me whose job it is to audit the audit firms?

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How is goodwill calculated?

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What is the pool rate?

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What are the different types of internal audit?

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What are the reasons for getting audited?

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Tell me about your experiences in conducting audits?

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For payroll, how would you calculate gratuity?

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How would you generate a cash flow statement?

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Employment Satisfaction Level: 70%

Interview Difficulty (1-10): 7.0

% Receiving Healthcare Benefits: 100%

Average Annual Vacation Time: 2.0 weeks

Average Weekly Work Hours: 45.0 hours

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