"After 15 years, I've had a lot of projects that I really enjoyed but my favorite was when I was about five years into my career. I was working for a start up company and they'd never had an accountant before. In the interview, I challenged the owner about their growth strategy and when hired, I consistently asked about their growth potential. After about three months, the owner wanted me to put together a budget forecast of how they could financially afford to grow consistently and to maintain it as a guide for future expansion. Within two years, they opened two new branches and within five year, expanded to other states. It always makes me proud to see how far they came by using my forecasting model."

This is a subjective question. It can be for any level of experience and can have a wide variety of answers. Always remember to be honest and respect any NDA's you've signed. The Accounting world is a confidential, which must be respected. Any interviewer that would pressure you to reveal confidential information should examine their own ethics. You have no loyalty to an interviewer but you do to your former employer who trusted you with that information.

Projects to discuss can be from school or from a project you previously worked on. It's easy to review the broad scope of a project without revealing anything that could violate an NDA.

"At one of my previous positions, I worked on an audit project for a company that had grown too fast to quickly. They had various outdated controls that were duplicated throughout the process. I was put on a team to comb through the controls and decide which ones could be decommissioned or ruled out of scope for the audit. It was like being an investigator because I got to see all the inner workings but didn't have to actually handle the audit."