Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Finance interview questions..

Q: How would you choose to buy a particular stock?
Q: Why might a company choose debt over equity financing?
Q: Where is the market going?
Q: What major factors drive mergers and acquisitions?
Q: What is goodwill? How does it affect net income?
Q: What is working capital?
Q: What are deferred taxes?
Q:Can you describe a recent situation in which you accomplished an important objective in a brief period of time?
Q: How do you take challenges?
Q: Are you willing to work in shifts?
Q: What is the thing you like the most in the world? Why?
Q: What is the thing you dislike the most in the world? Why?
Q: What does success mean to you?
Q: How do you define failure?
Q: What is contingency liability?
Q: How do you value a company?
Q: You've been asked to reduce the budget by 8%. What criteria will you use in identifying the budget reductions?
Q: Who is a more senior creditor, a stockholder or a bondholder?
Q: What is the difference between accounts and finance?
Q: Explain fixed cost, variable cost and marginal cost?

Q: What is Break Even Point? What does it signify?


Q: What is the purpose of chargeback?
Q: What is MIS report and do you prepare it?
Q: Why are you leaving the organization you work for?
Q: How much time do you need to join the organization?
Q: Are you aggressive?
Q: What makes you a good manager?
Q: What motivates you the most?
Q: What skills and abilities do you have?
Q: Is there anything you want to ask?
Q:If you were hired for this job, what areas would you make an immediate impact?
Q:In what areas do you think you will need guidance?
Q:How will you approach learning this "new" job?
Q:How will you approach acquiring new skill sets?
Q:Describe the most difficult situation you have faced in your career and how you managed it.
Q:Describe some problems you encountered in your most recent position and ow you resolved them.
Q:What specific steps do you utilize in solving workplace problems?
Q: What experience have you had in fixed assets accounting?
Q: How can you create Budgets for daily pods?
Q: How to use special and pair value sets?
Q: What is consolidation ?
Q: Why depreciation is not charged on land?
Q: Can u explain me the flow in General ledger?
Q: What is meant by group chart of accounts in sap fico ?
Q: Describe yourself.
Q: Tell me about your educational background?
Q: What do you know about the organization?
Q: How do you justify the job?
Q: Why do you want this job?
Q: What do you want to work with this organization?
Q: Where do you see yourself five years down the line?


Q: What are your strengths?
Q: What is our company’s stock price? How would you forecast the future stock price for next year?
Q: How important does Accounts receivable for small business and why?
Q: What are the goals of Accounts receivable?
Q: What are the powerful softwares that could be used for doing efficient Accounts receivable?
Q: What are the strategies to be followed for preparing Accounts receivable?
Q: How debtors play its role in Accounts receivable?
Q: Who is responsible for maintaining the Accounts receivable in an organization?
Q: How important is Accounts receivable to business?
Q: What do you mean by Accounts payable cycle?
Q: What is Trial Balance?
Q: What is difference between account payable and bills payable?
Q: How to account freight cost, handling charges,purchase tax at the time of raising a Purchase Order?
Q: What is Reconciliation Statement ?
Q: How do you answer this question "what is company code".
Q: Is it necessary to create Sundry creditors?
Q: What is the meaning of TDS? How it is charged?
Q: What is interest on Capital?
Q: What is Pool rate?
Q: What the procedures or process involved in the preparation for the audit?
Q: What is Web Audit?
Q: What are the different types of internal audit?
Q: What is the difference between an internal audit and the annual external audit?
Q: What is Internal Audit?
Q: What is meant by Single Audit process?
Q: Where is Audit Data Stored?
Q: What is meant by computer auditing?
Q: What are the reasons for getting audited?
Q: What do 'income assessed' and 'non-income assessed' mean?
Q: What is authorized share capital?
Q: What is paid up share capital?
Q: How much depreciation to be calculated for fixed assets older than 5 years?
Q: What is accumulated depreciation?
Q: What are the journal entries which get passed from asset purchasing to asset retirement?
Q: What is fictitious assets?
Q: What is the difference between the different depreciation methods?
Q: What are the activities present in payroll task?
Q: What is Payroll Disbursements Journal?
Q: What are the steps in Payroll Management?
Q: What is the software efficient for carrying out payroll tasks?
Q: What is the difference between paycheck and Payslip?
Q: How advantage is payroll for small business?
Q: What is Payroll Journal?
Q: Why Finance?

Q: Describe the finance functions within a company and where you see yourself fitting.


Q: What’s a Price/Earning (P/E) ratio and how do you use it?

Q: What if 2 companies have the same value of P/E ratios, which company does you think is better?

Q: How would you explain net present value to non-finance major?

Q: What is our company’s stock price? How would you forecast the future stock price for next year?

Q: How would you choose to buy a particular stock?

Q: Why might a company choose debt over equity financing?

Q: Where is the market going?

Q: What major factors drive mergers and acquisitions?

Q: What is goodwill? How does it affect net income?

Q: What is working capital?

Q: What are deferred taxes?

Q:Can you describe a recent situation in which you accomplished an important objective in a brief period of time?

Q: How do you take challenges?

Q: Are you willing to work in shifts?

Q:
What is the thing you like the most in the world? Why?
Q:
What is the thing you dislike the most in the world? Why?
Q: What does success mean to you?

Q: How do you define failure?

Q: What is contingency liability?

Q: How do you value a company?

Q: You've been asked to reduce the budget by 8%. What criteria will you use in identifying the budget reductions?

Q: Who is a more senior creditor, a stockholder or a bondholder?

Q:
What is the difference between accounts and finance?
Q: Explain fixed cost, variable cost and marginal cost?

Q: What is Break Even Point? What does it signify?

Q:
What is the purpose of chargeback?
Q: What is MIS report and do you prepare it?

Q: Why are you leaving the organization you work for?

Q: How much time do you need to join the organization?

Q: Are you aggressive?

Q: What makes you a good manager?

Q: What motivates you the most?

Q: What skills and abilities do you have?

Q: Is there anything you want to ask?

Q:If you were hired for this job, what areas would you make an immediate impact?

Q:In what areas
do you think you will need guidance?
Q:How will you approach learning this "new" job?

Q:How will you approach acquiring new skill sets?

Q
http://www.managementparadise.com/forums/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gifescribe the most difficult situation you have faced in your career and how you managed it.

Q
http://www.managementparadise.com/forums/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gifescribe some problems you encountered in your most recent position and ow you resolved them.

Q:What specific steps do you utilize in solving workplace problems?

Q: What experience have you had in fixed assets accounting?

Q: How can you create Budgets for daily pods?

Q: How to use special and pair value sets?

Q: What is consolidation ?

Q: Why depreciation is not charged on land?

Q: Can u explain me the flow in General ledger?

Q: What is meant by group chart of accounts in sap fico ?

Q: How important does Accounts
receivable for small business and why?
Q:
What are the goals of Accounts receivable?
Q:
What are the powerful softwares that could be used for doing efficient Accounts receivable?
Q:
What are the strategies to be followed for preparing Accounts receivable?
Q: How debtors play its role in Accounts
receivable?
Q: Who is responsible for maintaining the Accounts
receivable in an organization?
Q: How important is Accounts
receivable to business?
Q:
What do you mean by Accounts payable cycle?
Q: What is Trial Balance?

Q: What is difference between account payable and bills payable?

Q: How to account freight cost, handling charges,purchase tax at the time of raising a Purchase Order?

Q: What is Reconciliation Statement ?

Q: How do you answer this question "what is company code".

Q: Is it necessary to create Sundry creditors?

Q: What is
the meaning of TDS? How it is charged?
Q: What is interest on Capital?

Q: What is Pool rate?

Q: What the procedures or process involved in the preparation for the audit?

Q: What is Web Audit?

Q:
What are the different types of internal audit?
Q:
What is the difference between an internal audit and the annual external audit?
Q: What is Internal Audit?

Q: What is meant by Single Audit process?

Q: Where is Audit Data Stored?

Q: What is meant by computer auditing?

Q:
What are the reasons for getting audited?
Q: What do 'income assessed' and 'non-income assessed' mean?

Q: What is authorized
share capital?
Q: What is paid up
share capital?
Q: How much depreciation to be calculated for fixed assets older than 5 years?

Q: What is accumulated depreciation?

Q:
What are the journal entries which get passed from asset purchasing to asset retirement?
Q: What is fictitious assets?

Q:
What is the difference between the different depreciation methods?
Q:
What are the activities present in payroll task?
Q: What is Payroll Disbursements Journal?

Q: What are the steps in Payroll Management?

Q: What is the software efficient for carrying out payroll tasks?

Q: What is the difference between paycheck and Payslip?

Q: How advantage is payroll
for small business?
Q: What is Payroll Journal?


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