I went on an interview today. Some of the question turned out to be a bit trickier than I thought. I hope to review them.
He asked
"Have you ever given a financial analysis that led to certain decisions, actions to be taken?"
------I anticipate that a possible response to this would involve a relationship between two accounts, relationships with each other, that led to some direction of subsequent actions in an engagement.
"How do you prioritize and organize assignments?"
-------I inicated something along the lines of assessing assignments according to how complex or ambigious they were. Aside from that, I noted extensive use of the scheduling features of Outlook and other e-mail programs. A Yahoo calendar performs a similar function.
I also indicated that I extensively organize files by creating folders in the computer. Anyone with any tips on organizing files in the computer?
"How about making a decision?" I indicated that I prepared a report that I had to simplify since the person using the report was less Excel savy than I was.
"How about meeting a deadline?"
"You had to meet a deadline soon, other assignments were on your plate, but you wanted to turn in a project as high quality as possibe?"
------I indicated that I came in early, stayed late, did extensive outside research on my own, including message boards, networking
"How about when you were part of team?" I mentioned an Equity Funding scandal paper in school.
Ymir incident punch up.
"Best communication skills"
-----Written, presentation/graphical/Power Point
"A time when it was hectic, the supervisor was not available to help as much as you would have desired, you went in not knowing everything"
I indicated a Sarbanes-Oxley project where I had to prepare sign-off sheets for the process owners, people who had to add clients, vendors, and change credit limits. I did some research on my own, the auditor's work in appraising the company's internal control system, researching FASB, Macros, Visual Basic
"Dealing with auditors"
"Dealing with clients"