Accountant practice interview
Reconciliations, month-end close, reporting standards and attention to detail. Practise the 5 questions interviewers ask for this role with follow-ups. Paid plans add scored feedback on every answer.
Free with an Intaviu account: 320 credits a month, at 10 credits a minute of practice. Private: interview creators never see them.
- Mid level
- 20 minutes
- 5 questions
- Scored feedback on paid plans
About the role
An accountant keeps the books accurate and on time: posting entries, reconciling bank and ledger accounts, closing the month and preparing reports that follow the relevant standards. The panel is checking your technical grounding, your care with detail and whether managers can trust the numbers you hand over.
How to prepare
- Walk through your month-end close step by step, including what you check before you sign off.
- Refresh the reporting standards your employer uses and be ready to explain one you applied recently.
- Prepare an example of a reconciliation difference you traced and how you found the cause.
- Know the accounting software and spreadsheet functions you use daily and what you use them for.
- Be ready to explain a technical point simply to someone outside finance.
Common mistakes
- Describing tasks you did without showing how you made sure the figures were right.
- Guessing at a standard you are unsure of instead of saying how you would check it.
- Hiding past errors when a calm account of how you fixed one builds more trust.
What to expect
A real first-round interview
5 questions the way interviewers ask for this role, with follow-ups when an answer needs more.
Spoken, like the real thing
Speak your answers in your browser or the free desktop app, with live captions. You can ask the interviewer to repeat anything.
Scored on 4 areas
The things this interview weighs most. With a paid plan, your report shows how you did on each one.
A private report
On Plus, Pro and Premium: every answer scored, your strongest lines quoted and what to say differently next time. Interview creators never see it.
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