Top 15 Accounting Clerk Interview Questions
1. Do you enjoy working with deadlines?
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- Do you enjoy working with deadlines?
- You may have multiple deadlines to complete your tasks. When have you been in such an environment and how did you handle it?
- In your current or former position, what were your long and short term goals?
- Give an example of an important goal that you set in the past. Tell about your success in reaching it.
- What made you decide on a career in bookkeeping?
- Name three positive traits you already have and would most like to build upon.
- What motivates you to perform your best?
- What is the toughest group that you have had to get cooperation from?
- When given a new bookkeeping assignment, how do you approach it?
- What do you know about our company?
- What do you do when priorities change quickly? Give one example of when this happened.
- When a mistake is made by you, who is usually the one to notice? The auditor, or yourself?
- Are you proficient using the 10 key pad?
- What do you believe is an area of weakness for you, and what have you been doing to improve upon it?
- How do you stay focused during a long day?
- Outside of inputting sales and expenses, what other accounting tasks have you completed before?
- How proficient are you with Excel? Please share with me some projects you created, and regular accounting tasks you completed on excel.
- What is your personal method for double checking your work?
- If I were to look at your home office, or previous work station before you left, what would it look like?
- What accounting tasks did you perform at your former job?
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June 12th, 2014
Bookkeeping is the recording of financial transactions. Transactions include sales, purchases, income, and payments by an individual or organization. Bookkeeping is usually performed by a bookkeeper. Bookkeeping should not be confused with accounting. The accounting process is usually performed by an accountant. The accountant creates reports from the recorded financial transactions recorded by the bookkeeper and files forms with government agencies. There are some common methods of bookkeeping such as the Single-entry bookkeeping system and the Double-entry bookkeeping system. But while these systems may be seen as "real" bookkeeping, any process that involves the recording of financial transactions is a bookkeeping process.
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Bookkeeping is the recording of financial transactions. Transactions include sales, purchases, income, and payments by an individual or organization. Bookkeeping is usually performed by a bookkeeper. Bookkeeping should not be confused with accounting. The accounting process is usually performed by an accountant. The accountant creates reports from the recorded financial transactions recorded by the bookkeeper and files forms with government agencies. There are some common methods of bookkeeping such as the Single-entry bookkeeping system and the Double-entry bookkeeping system. But while these systems may be seen as "real" bookkeeping, any process that involves the recording of financial transactions is a bookkeeping process.
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Accounting Clerk User Submitted Interview Answers
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Do you enjoy working with deadlines?
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Yes, because I'll make sure to finish may works before deadlines.
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Yes as it gives me a sense of accomplishment.
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You may have multiple deadlines to complete your tasks. When have you been in such an environment and how did you handle it?
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I just keep my head down and worry about my self and get down whatever that task might be.
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Yes. Until I learn the art of planning and prioritizing I used to run like a headless chicken try o finish 20 things at once. I remember one of the big client in my previous firm requested a set of management accounts early before they are due for bank loan approval and I had 35 vat clients that needed to be done and checked. I firstly allocated hours to do management account and ask a collegue to review it as it short notices and continue do my vat.
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In your current or former position, what were your long and short term goals?
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Short term goals are to be able to handle all my tasks effectively as an accounting clerk asap. Learn new things and reach middle level of accountant within one or two years.
long term goal is to be able to do financial and accounting analysis hopefully.
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What percentage of your time is spent doing each function.
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Give an example of an important goal that you set in the past. Tell about your success in reaching it.
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Landing an interview with the city of fll. I applied for open positions and excelled on exam.
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We have contest each month weather it is getting credit cards on auto pay or having customer sign up on ETF. That way it keeps up the moral and the other employees have competiveness that comes out and everyone wants to do better. We achieve bigger goals.
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What made you decide on a career in bookkeeping?
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I love to work with numbers, keeping a nice well organized filing cabinet.
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As an accounting student, bookeeping will help me to utilize my skills and I believe that it will prepare to the world of accounting.
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Name three positive traits you already have and would most like to build upon.
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Accuracy, organized, motivated
would like to build new positive traits such as more knowledge, skilled in accounting software, thinkable.
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Hard working; Detailed Oriented; and Honest but I want to build my Confidence because once I get nervous my confidence is very low.
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What motivates you to perform your best?
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Knowing that whatever I am doing it will help someone else in their job. Knowing that I am doing my best makes me feel great. I am not a slacker, it just isn't in me.
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I like to always give my 110 percent at all times. I want to show and prove my boss and myself I can do my job efficiently and be capable of doing more. I have always been an over achiever.
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What is the toughest group that you have had to get cooperation from?
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Men - EX: Welders at the container shop. I had to be consistent in asking them to write down the part numbers and the quantity used for inventory purposes.
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The toughest group I had to get cooperation from was couple of the team members insisted their own opinions.
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When given a new bookkeeping assignment, how do you approach it?
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I open the database and start inputting the numbers.
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First, I will read the assignment carefully to make sure I have understood the transaction involved, and determine which accounts to be used. Then make accounting entries.
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What do you know about our company?
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Gary Job Corps is a nationwide network of campuses that offers a free education and training program and a comprehensive array of career development services to at-risk young women and men, ages 16 to 24, to prepare them for successful careers.
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Founded in 1985 by eamonn daly, based in rathkeale, with franchise outlets thru the region. Wholesale, general public, alloys,
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What do you do when priorities change quickly? Give one example of when this happened.
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Just want to sort out this happened when our company changed its nature from trader to manufacture.
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This has never happened to me but I would finish what I was doing then get to do the task as soon as possible.
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When a mistake is made by you, who is usually the one to notice? The auditor, or yourself?
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Me... But sometimes we don't know it... So auditor should notice it.
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It would definitely be myself because my goal is not to make mistakes that are passed on unnoticed. Also, I am not too bold to think I will not make mistakes.
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Are you proficient using the 10 key pad?
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I am proficient. I gross around 40 keystrokes per minute.
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What do you believe is an area of weakness for you, and what have you been doing to improve upon it?
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My greatest weakness is that it is hard for me to take a step back and ask for assistance. I've learned that I need to look around for capable and willingly personnel to delegate work to others to be as effective as possible.
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When I am anxious I find it hard to express myself correctly.
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How do you stay focused during a long day?
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I concentrate on the tasks at hand. I take some breaks in between times.
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Do creative work first. - Check off the tasks that require creativity or concentration first thing in the morning, and then move on to easier work, like deleting emails or scheduling meetings, later in the day.
2. Allocate your time deliberately. -
3. Train your mind like a muscle.
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Outside of inputting sales and expenses, what other accounting tasks have you completed before?
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All incoming payments go through me and I post each payment to each account weather it is check, credit card, cash, or even money orders. I also order products and send out any payments for our office in regards to office supplies or events.
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Tax returns, profit and loss and balance sheets.
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How proficient are you with Excel? Please share with me some projects you created, and regular accounting tasks you completed on excel.
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Very Well. EX: Health Check spreadsheet.
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Keeping up to date bank information, creditors making invoices and quotations.
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What is your personal method for double checking your work?
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Review and analyze entries.
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Sometimes I check what I did before and make sure I did all good.
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If I were to look at your home office, or previous work station before you left, what would it look like?
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Clean, Organize with note details of pending tasks to do.
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Organized and tidy with some papers left in front of my computer.
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What accounting tasks did you perform at your former job?
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Data Entry, Cash Handling.
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Working on sage, payment to creditors, invoices.
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