Public and private accountants: what is the most difficult interview question you’ve ever gotten?

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Why accounting.
- Yeah, WHY?

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From your prior job

Your boss, favorite Co worker, the HR manager

Marry, F***, Kill....go

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EY3 HR usually has the best looking people though

Do you have any questions for me? On the 4th person of the interview process😂

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I was speechless

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Tell me about a time when you disagreed with a boss and how you handled the situation

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Same !!

“How are you doing?”

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“Honestly not so good” *immediately breaks down crying*

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Tell me everything you have counted in the past and why

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Real numbers, because I don’t know ho w to count complex numbers.

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5 different methods of depreciation

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There’s 8 if you count every one

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My favorite guidance in accounting 😂

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Tell

why tax?

why Deloitte

I’ve gotten a few tricky ones:
1) Can you give an example of a time you’ve demonstrated the ability to learn something new on the job quickly?
2) What would you do in a situation where you’ve been waiting to collect a payment from a partner for an extended period of time? Wanted to see rational on setting up an allowance, when to put it through bad debt expense and from an operational perspective, consider netting the receivable against any payables to that partner.
3) An open ended question about how I would account for employee sign-on bonuses. The interviewer was looking for rational on how it would be amortized and how a clawback might be treated if an employee left after a short time with the company.

Do you mean rationale??

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