Accounting Assistant Test Assessment

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Accounting aptitude test is the ideal pre-hire test for recruiters and hiring managers to assess candidates objectively. This assessment is useful for hiring an Accounting Assistant. Our accounting assistant test helps to reduce hiring cost by 40%.

About Accounting Assistant Test Assessment

Accounts assistants provide administrative support to accountants, undertaking clerical tasks such as typing, filing, making phone calls, handling mail and basic bookkeeping. They perform various clerical/accounting functions in support of the companies or department's financial tracking, processing and reporting requirements. The work may involve general accounts payable/receivable or related financial areas. Work is mostly structured, with procedures and guidelines available as to how assignments are to be completed. However, may occasionally be required to develop alternative solutions and approaches.

Other duties and responsibilities of the job include:

  • Working with spreadsheets, sales and purchase ledgers and journals. 
  • Preparing statutory accounts. 
  • Calculating and checking to make sure payments, amounts and records are correct. 
  • Sorting out incoming and outgoing daily post and answering any queries.  
  • Managing petty cash transactions.  
  • Controlling credit and chasing debt.  
  • Reconciling finance accounts and direct debits. 
  • Reconcile cash accounts between the bank statement and general ledger. 
  • Record journal entries. 
  • Complete internal audit procedures. 
  • Convert documents to PDF format. 
  • Enter general ledger data to depreciation system, performance measurement system, and other ancillary systems. 
  • Assemble documents in response to independent auditor requests. 
  • Enter budget information to an accounting system. 
  • Assist in preparing monthly and quarterly investor reports. 
  • Prepare sales tax and other government filings 
  • Run reports from general ledger and ancillary systems. 
  • Enter invoices into accounts payable system.
  • Prepare supporting schedules.

KEY SKILLS REQUIRED:

  • ACCOUNTING / BOOKKEEPING - Accounting Fundamentals
  • EXCELLENT COMMUNICATION AND INTER-PERSONAL SKILLS - Verbal Ability and Verbal Reasoning
  • ABILITY TO SOLVE PROBLEMS AND THINK CREATIVELY - Quantitative Aptitude, Spatial Intelligence
  • DETAIL ORIENTED WITH HIGH LEVEL OF ACCURACY IN OUTPUT
  • STRONGLY PROFICIENT IN MICROSOFT WORD AND EXCEL - Excel Basics

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Test Summary

VERBAL ABILITY

Verbal ability is essential because grammar and vocabulary is a prerequisite for good spoken and written English. 

VERBAL REASONING

Reading comprehension indicates an ability to comprehend and reason with the concepts on a written page. 

QUANTITATIVE APTITUDE

Quantitative ability will indicate analytical thinking and problem-solving ability. 

ABSTRACT REASONING

Abstract reasoning will indicate the ability to think clearly, identify logical patterns, learn new skills and solve complex problems. It is an indicator of fluid intelligence and shows an ability to strategize. 

ACCOUNTING FUNDAMENTALS

The topics cover accounting topics such as posting entries, overhead allocation, FIFO, LIFO, Cash flows, stock valuation, adjustment entries, accounting principles etc. 

MS WORD

The questions are on Keyboard shortcuts, Keyboard Combinations, Page orientations, Tables, Charts, formatting, commands.

The accountant assistant test is designed considering EEOC guidelines. It will help you to assess & hire diverse talent without any bias.

This test may contain MCQ's (Multiple Choice Questions), MAQ's (Multiple Answer Questions), Fill in the Blanks, Descriptive, Whiteboard Questions, Audio / Video Questions, AI-LogicBox, Job-based Simulations, True or False Questions, etc.

Test Duration: 25 minutes

No. of Questions: 25

Level of Expertise: Entry/Mid/Expert

Useful for hiring

  • Accounting Assistant

Topics Covered


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Accounting Fundamental

iMocha’s accounting aptitude test evaluates a candidate’s understanding about accounting fundamentals such as recording, summarizing, analyzing, and then reporting financial data

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Financial Analysis

Our test helps to assess a candidate’s knowledge about financial analysis process of maintaining record of financial activities to determine accounting performance

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Management Accounting

Our accounting assistant test helps to evaluate a candidate’s ability to manage an account by giving financial information to the managers in decision making

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Numerical Reasoning

This test helps recruiters and hiring managers to assess a candidate’s ability to solve numerical problems by interpreting numerical data

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Excel Advance 2016

This assessment evaluates a candidate’s ability to work on Microsoft Excel 2016 which helps to manage and control large amounts of data 

Sample Questions

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Question types:

Multiple Option

Topic:

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Difficulty:

Easy


Q 1. Last year, the current ratio was 3:1 and the quick ratio was 2:1. Currently, the current ratio is 3:1, but the quick ratio is 1:1. What does this comparatively indicate?
High liquidity
Higher stock
Lower stock
Low liquidity

Question types:

Multiple Option

Topic:

HLOOKUP

Difficulty:

Medium


Q 2. Miguel wrote some complex combined formulas. What is the output of the given formula based on the table with data contained in the range A1: B5?

HLOOKUP(44,A2:B5,3) - HLOOKUP(53,A4:B5,2) = 

Table with section and value column
36
52
43
0

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