100 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
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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 companys 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?
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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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