Top Questions to Ask in an Accounting Interview
Accounting interviews can be terrifying enough, let alone having to generate intelligent questions that show you understand the business and are certainly the candidate of choice. Here are the top questions to ask in an accounting interview:
What Makes an Accountant Successful?
As finance and accounting recruiters in Toronto we regularly meet with people at different stages of their professional career. What we’ve noted is that certain traits seem to best predict success. In order to get the career you want, try to foster the following qualities, while mitigating the ones
How to Write a Self-Assessment for Your Finance Job
Right up there with root canals and small dogs that won’t stop barking is the unparalleled joy that comes with writing a self-assessment for your finance job. At first glance the task of writing a self-assessment seems daunting. What do you downplay? If you feel like you’ve hit
Top Leadership Skills for New Finance Mangers
The CPA Competency Map is fascinating (ok fascinating might be bit of a stretch, but it is revealing). While technical skills such as finance and taxation are listed, so too are skills such as ethical behaviour and leadership. For new finance managers, who are just getting their leadership legs underneath
How to Make the Leap from Accountant to Financial Analyst
In football, players are often asked to take on a new role for the good of the team. Defensive backs become, gasp, full backs and in the odd case, a college quarterback becomes a receiver. Those who can adapt, succeed, while those who can’t flounder at the wayside. For
The Yeti and Other Myths (Including Some About Accountants)
The Yeti, or Sasquatch is actually a story originating from ancient Himalayan mythology (fun fact that you can use to impress your friends). Whether or not the Abominable Snowman actually exists is up for discussion in forums, coffee houses and random YouTube clips of guys in the woods running around
Why You Still Need to Excel at Excel
No doubt about it, as a finance and accounting professional, you still need to excel at Excel. Even with end-to-end financial suites like SAP and Oracle, people still do financial analysis by extracting data from those back-end systems and entering it in to Excel spreadsheets. Excel is used in marketing,
Peaking in Your Accounting Interview
Great athletes plan their peak to coincide with a major competition. It takes discipline, focus and a whole lot of advance preparation. And while you’re not going to increase your protein intake, or run three sets of stairs to get ready for your accounting interview, there are strategies you
What Not to Say in a Finance Interview
You’re all dressed up in your best clothes. You enter the interview room, offer a firm handshake and your best professional smile. You are, in other words, off to a fantastic start in your finance interview.
There’s only one problem. You haven’t done a lot of company
Hello Neo: Technology and Accounting in the GTA
In the sci-fi thriller The Matrix, Keanu Reeves delivers a flurry of literal and metaphorical jabs at a technologically driven race that has taken over planet earth. It’s good fun and let’s be honest, not everyone can wear a trench coat with such incredible panache. But is technology
4 Signs You’re a Good Finance Manager
Are You an All-Star Finance Manager?
We’d all like to think that we’re great Finance Managers, even if we’re relatively new at the rol. We communicate collaboratively after all and have an open door policy. But there are definitely signs that you’re the kind of Finance
New Finance Job? How to Get Noticed at Work
There are always nerves when you start a new role. You want to make a positive first impression. But how do you do it without stepping on toes?
Here are 3 ways to make an impact in your first month on the job.
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