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Accounts Payable
How many invoices have you handled
on a monthly basis?
What steps would you take before
approving an invoice for payment?
What items of information do you need
before you can approve an invoice for
payment?
Tell us about your experience in
accounts payable
Tell us about an invoice discrepancy
that you discovered and how you
resolved the discrepancy
Tell us about an invoice dispute that
you were involved in and what your
role was in resolving the dispute
Tell us about your experience in
accounts payable
What is the difference between billable
and non-billable expenses?
02
Accounts Receivable
To what extent were you involved in
collections?
You’ve been asked to prepare a bill for
services What information should be
included in the bill?
03
Audit
Tell us about your experience in
conducting audits
04
Cashier
What experience have you had as a
cashier?
Cost Accounting
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accounting
Describe some of the methods used to
allocate support costs
What is chargeback?
What is the purpose of chargeback?
Have you implemented or
administered a chargeback system?
Name some components of an
effective chargeback system
What are fixed costs?
What are variable costs?
What is marginal cost?
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Fixed Assets
What experience have you had in fixed
assets accounting?
What are the various means of
calculating depreciation?
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General Ledger
What experience do you have with
general ledger?
08
Payroll
Based on Internal Revenue Service
rules, what criteria distinguish a
consultant from an employee?
What experience have you had in
payroll?
09
Supervisory
How might quality problems manifest
themselves in an accounting
department?
What cost-cutting measures have you
implemented?
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familiar with?
Identify some important steps to take
during the conversion of an accounting
system
What percentage of discounts lost did
you have in Accounts Payable? Did
the percentage increase or decrease
under your supervision?
You been asked to prepare a training
class for completing expense
statements What points will you
emphasize to insure accurate expense
statements are submitted?
Accountant Interview
Review the description for an Accountant
position A number of the underlined
keywords have links to interview
questions for that keyword or job
function
Description: This position is assigned
to the benefits delivery team responsible
for health care and medical benefits
Responsibilities include: evaluate and
develop necessary controllership
processes; reconcile claims information;
intra-company billing of health care
claims to the business organizations;
accounting projects to increase data
accuracy, efficiency and reduce costs
Qualifications required include a four
year degree in accounting or equivalent
experience; experience in account
reconciliation preparation and analysis;
project leadership skills; interpersonal
and communications skills; work
effectively with diverse business
organizations; resourcefulness, flexibility,
creativity, team focus; personal
computer skills
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01
Take me through your resume
02
If we were to call your current
supervisor, in which area of
accounting would he or she say is your
strongest? Which area would he or
she say is your weakest?
03
What unique skills or knowledge can
you contribute to our company?
04
What additional training or experience
will we need to provide you with in
order to perform the duties of this
position?
05
Tell me about your experience in
reconciliation
06
When do you plan on attaining your
CPA? What steps will you take to
prepare yourself?
07
Give us an example of how you have
used your creativity to solve a
problem on the job
08
Tell us about any accounting process
that you've either developed or
revised How would you evaluate the
effectiveness of your work?
09
Why have you chosen a career in
Accounting?
10
What aspect of accounting do you
dislike the most?
If the Accountant position that you are
seeking is in audit, don't use audit as
the aspect that you dislike the most
Choose the aspect of accounting that
you dislike the most that is most
unrelated to the job that you are
interviewing for
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How does your experience and
qualifications match up to the job? Do
you know how much other companies
are paying?
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Do you have anything to add?
Accounts Payable Supervisor Interview
Review the description A number of the
underlined keywords have links to
interview questions for that keyword or
job function
Description: Supervisor needed for
fast-paced environment with proven
ability in accounts payable Responsible
for processing monthly closing, account
analysis, processing expense statements
and reporting Vendor contact and
compiling and preparing special reports
as required Desired qualities include
strong negotiation, customer service and
communications skills and the ability to
work in a team Experience desirable in
accounting system implementation
Practice Interview
01
Take us through your resume
Focus on the aspects of your
experience that apply to this position.
02
What accounting applications do you
have experience with?
Talk about what applications you've
worked with and what you did
including implementation, conversion
and training.
03
Give us an example of the accounting
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04
What experience have you had in
processing expense statements?
What was your monthly volume? With
how many employees?
05
How would you deal with an irate
employee who has not received his
expense reimbursement?
Your steps should include let the
employee vent, listen, identify the
problem, and follow up to resolve the
problem.
06
What percentage of payment
discounts did your section earn in your
previous position? What was the
single most important factor in your
success?
07
What aspect of supervision do you find
the most difficult?
08
Give us an example of your ability to
negotiate?
09
Our Accounts Payable Department has
not had a permanent supervisor in six
months Morale is suffering and the
employees are stressed If you are
the successful candidate, what steps
will you take to correct the situation?
10
What is the most important
contribution you will make to our
team?
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Is there anything else?
Summarize by emphasize your
qualifications as they apply to this job.
Also cover anything you missed from
your opening.