Auditor Mock Interview

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Question 15 of 25

Have you ever been offered a bribe? How did you react?

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Samantha Hamilton is a finance project manager with recruitment expertise. Her client list includes Robert Half's Finance and Accounting department.

"I've never been offered a bribe for auditing, but in high school, I had a classmate that tried to pay me to do his homework. I ended up tutoring him because I told him the homework was only ten percent of the grade and if he didn't learn it, he'd fail the tests. He passed the class with a B and we spent three nights a week learning Geometry together."

Samantha Hamilton

Samantha Hamilton is a finance project manager with recruitment expertise. Her client list includes Robert Half's Finance and Accounting department.

"Yes, I have. When I worked for Google, I was offered a bribe to reveal their yearly earnings before they were released. I reported this to my bosses and they contacted the police because corporate espionage is a dangerous thing. I was commended for my honesty and ethics and I proved to myself, my company, and outside interests that I couldn't be bought to break my ethics."

Samantha Hamilton

Samantha Hamilton is a finance project manager with recruitment expertise. Her client list includes Robert Half's Finance and Accounting department.

Auditing is a profession that affects the stock market. If you audit a company and they fail, their stock prices will most likely fall. A failure indicates that the company isn't complying with SOX regulation for documentation or financial procedures. It marks the company as untrustworthy or disorganized. So for an auditor, it's important to have strong ethics.

If someone has ever offered you a bribe or tried to pump you for information regarding a client, you'll know it. You don't talk specifics with people in this line of work. You'd never say to a stranger in a bar that the company you're auditing is going to fail and if you do, you could cause a sudden stock short. Ethics is important and being consistent with your ethics is particularly important.

Samantha Hamilton

Samantha Hamilton is a finance project manager with recruitment expertise. Her client list includes Robert Half's Finance and Accounting department.

"I've never been outright offered a bribe, but I did use to go out for after work drinks at a local bar and some finance guys try and press me for information. They bought me a beer and asked a bunch of questions and got really annoyed when I smiled and changed the subject to football. I told them I signed a NDA and didn't come there to talk business. If they were curious about the company, the financials where posted on the FCC website like all publicly trade companies."

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25Auditor Interview Questions & Answers

1.Why do you want a career as an auditor?

Auditor Mock Interview

Have you ever been offered a bribe? How did you react?

25Auditor Interview Questions & Answers

1.Why do you want a career as an auditor?

2.Describe a difficult auditing project and how you overcame it.

3.If you were an external auditor, what's the first thing you'd ask for when entering an audit?

4.Describe a time when you had to work with a large team auditing team and how you handled it.

5.Have you ever had difficulty with a supervisor?

6.By providing examples, convince me that you can adapt to a wide variety of people, situations, and environments.

7.If you're working for multiple clients at one time, how do you monitor the amount of hours you spend on one compared to the other?

8.Have you ever been overloaded with work, i.e., multiple auditing contracts or clients at once, or just a large amount of auditing work all at once?

9.If you find a process that's time consuming and frustrating, what would you do?

10.What platforms have you audited in the past?

11.Everyone has to bend or break rules sometimes. Give me an example when you had to that in auditing or accounting.

12.Have you ever faced a documentation overload during an audit? How did you handle it?

13.Have you ever had a documentation error occur during the auditing process? How did you handle it?

14.What do you enjoy most about being an auditor?

15.Have you ever been offered a bribe? How did you react?

16.Do you enjoy traveling?

17.How many times have you run an auditing team?

18.Tell me about a time when you sought guidance, from another coworker who was the same level as you?

19.If you were given documentation that didn't make sense mathematically, what would your next steps be?

20.Are you okay working longer hours certain times of the year or if a job had a deadline?

21.If you could change anything about being an auditor, what would it be?

22.Have you ever been burned out during an audit? How did you regain your focus?

23.Give me an example of a time you pushed back when asked for additional documentation and why.

24.Have you ever discovered fraud in an audit?

25.As a CPA, have you ever signed off on an audit and if so, what does that mean to you?