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0430 827 666 (Brisbane Office)作者: Kydie 时间: 2011-5-28 12:02
Hi Coco,
Thank you for your email. I am doing well.
Starting last week I started a new role at the Express Delivery Company Head Office as a Commercial Analyst with better income. In March 2011 came out an opening for this position and I was quite fortunate that after 3 times interview upto the G.M. of Commercial Division, he gave me a chance to perform for this role. Therefore please let me perform for this role as another good stepping stone.
Thank you very much for the update, Coco. Your program is very good and helps so many candidates.
I wish you all the very best. Good Luck.
Kind Regards,作者: Kydie 时间: 2011-5-28 12:07
最近trainee们一个一个找到了工作！！！作者: Kydie 时间: 2011-5-30 09:32
会计培训！！！作者: Kydie 时间: 2011-6-6 11:43
Hi All,
Good news!
Yet another of our Sydney trainees, Joyce, has successfully landed an Accounts Assistant position last week with one of Asia’s leading luxury watch retailers.
During her time at Florian Accounting, Joyce undertook our Level 1, Internship and Interview Coaching Programs. These programs combined helped her to improve her technical and interview skills, and equipped her with the relevant working skills and experience to be able to fulfil an accounting-related role. This was a major part of her being able to get this role.
In her below email, she shares with us those interview questions she was asked during her screening process. As for her reference check, the main questions asked of us related to her work ethics, punctuality, technical skills (incl. Excel), ability to meet deadlines and prioritize her workload, main strengths and weaknesses, and her ability to follow through with instructions under minimum supervision.
Let’s all wish her the best of luck in her new job and heads up for those of our current trainees.
Their financial manager and accountant conducted the interview.
They asked me questions based on my resume
Tell me about Florian accounting
What did you do in Florian ?
Your strengths and weaknesses
what do you like about Florian
What you leave florian
He also asked me about my key achievements in Florian
How do you work under pressure
how do I know about them作者: Kydie 时间: 2011-6-7 10:39
Hi Coco,
How are you? I hope you are well. Just want to let you know that I found a new job as an Assistant Accountant in a non profit organization.
Will start next week. I can say that the training and internship program helped me to be more confident during interviews.
Wishing all the trainess to find a job that they will ejoy!
Thanks for sharing your knowledge and your words of encouragement! =)
All the best!
Marissa作者: Kydie 时间: 2011-6-8 11:40 Hi CoCo,
Our company is currently using MYOB and I have only basic knowledge about this software, if I take the course, can I handle the BAS and GST myself after I finish it?
-- Yes, you will have the full knowledge preparing and lodging Business Activity Statements and IAS. If you need help, you can bring your company’s case and I will be more than happy to have a look through the accounts and assist you.作者: Kydie 时间: 2011-6-9 10:02
Hi Coco,
I list my interview questions with --- for graduate accountant role below to share with other trainees. I will update my status on this job for you. Thank you very much for your patient and great help. I will keep in touch with you.
Why we hire you?
Salary expectation based on your research
List your three strengths and one weakness point
Tell me about yourself about 3 minutes
AP/AR Experience
What is your five year plan and have you set specific target for yourself?
Describe one biggest achievement that you experienced during study in Australia
Do you have any questions that you want to ask?
What is your excel skills and specify that?
What kind of system you familiar with?
Which subject you are good at?作者: Kydie 时间: 2011-6-10 11:07
Hi CoCo, What positions can I apply for after completing level 1 training?
– AP/AR clerk, bookkeeper, Assistant Accountant, Junior Accountant, Graduate Accountant positions for small to medium size organization.作者: Kydie 时间: 2011-6-17 15:43
Hi CoCo,
I got the Assistant Accountant role in that company. I would like to thank you for all the help and support over the last few months. The course was informative and really helpful, it had given me the knowledge and experience I need to get my first accounting job. I am on a probation period now, is it OK to continue to receive support from you during the probation period? I mean if I have problems don’t know how to solve it and don’t want to ask my boss, can I come to you to seek help?
Best regards,
LiLi作者: Kydie 时间: 2011-6-18 14:19
Of course. I’ll be happy to help you out. You can either email me or come to my office.作者: Kydie 时间: 2011-6-20 11:55
Dear Coco,
I was interviewed by a recruitment agent about a role Internal Auditor in xxx yesterday. It is about 15 mins interview with a lot of questions have been asked. Fortunately, all the questions were covered by the interview course so that I could answer them easily without any pause or hesitation. They were quite happy about my answers.
Here is the list of some important questions:
1. Telling me about your internship experience at Florian?
2. What are your strengths and weaknesses?
3. With the job description, How are you going to prove your best fit to that position?
4. Why would you leave Florian?
5. What would you look into your future?
6. How you priortise your work?作者: Kydie 时间: 2011-6-25 10:53
Dear Coco, Jeff, and Harini,
It's Betty. I am writing to let you know that I got an offer XXX - Australia's largest cash logistics business. The position is AR Officer, which is 6-month contract role and may become permanent as the business is expanding very quickly. They use SAP, which is a good learning opportunity for me. The base salary is $50,000, a bit lower than my current job, but I am very happy to start from the bottom. I started on May 30th.
I really want to express my deep appreciation to you people especially Jeff. He leads me to the right way to get a job that I want.
I have seen other trainees shared their job hunting experience. I hope my experience can also help somehow.
Telephone interview (about 20 mins) 10 sec summary is very helpful. But I make a little change based on the position and that’s always what I do.
1st face to face interview (HR person, about 45 mins) All questions are in my expectation. (But all the hands on accounting knowledge is definitely from Florian) Examples are definitely useful. But as Jeff said, every answer and story should be tailored based on the particular question. Make it simple but attractive. It needs us keep practicing again and again.
2nd face to face interview (FC, Financial Accountant, about 30 mins) I prepared possible technical questions including the mock AR follow-up calls. But they didn’t ask me too many technical questions as AR is a quite basic role. This interview was more like a chat. As Jeff said, active eye contact and positive feedback when necessary and suitable are important. I can feel they like talking with me and I am the person that they want.
Then the following are pre-employment medical and 2 reference check.
It has been 4 weeks since I started job searching till I got this offer. I went to 3 company interviews and 3 agent interviews in total. After I got the offer, I still received 1 company and 2 agent calls. And one agent keeps calling me to see how is my job hunting. To be honest, I don’t think the agent can help us too much to find the entry level job. And cold calls seems don’t work as well. But if you aim at the AA role in the big company, agent plays an important role.
Besides the XXX interview, the other 2 company interviews are Spotless and CBA respectively.
It is a 10 month contract AP role in Spotless. I failed after the final interview as they want someone who is more specialized in AP with big company working experience background. The whole process is pretty much as above.
The other one is 3 month internal auditing role in CBA. I went through the agent interview and CBA’s interview. But after consideration, I chose the role in XXX.
Anyway, firstly, I don’t think I need to mention any interview questions or techniques, as they are all summarized by Coco and Jeff. The resume after revised by Jeff will be fine. But homework is very important after interview class. Secondly, make a target for yourself, AP or AR or AA, big company or small to medium company, then work hard on it. Thirdly, be confident, but be ready. Everything will be paid off.
Thanks again, Coco and Jeff, keep in touch.
Betty作者: Kydie 时间: 2011-6-28 08:53
Hi Coco,
Long time no see! How is it going!
Thank you again for all your help when I was at Florian. I always miss that time very much.
To tell you about my job hunting,I have accepted the offer from xxx to be an auditor.Training will commence at the start of the job.Hope everything is ok.
Anyway, wish you all the best and good luck.
Many thanks,
Tim作者: Kydie 时间: 2011-7-5 15:28
Hi Coco
About my experience, I had a lot of interviews so far, some interviewers are very prepared and some dont ask too many questions so it is important to make as many questions yourself
There is a few behavioral questions that I had quite a few times on interviews
Tell me about a time when you:
-Improved efficiency in your work
-Had a problem to meet a deadline
-Solved a problem
Answering this question with a specific examples and with confidence is important.
I hired a professional to remake my resume, and later on, i had some assistance in how to perform better in interviews. It cost a little bit of money but it did help me in getting more calls, and to be more prepared for job interviews so I think it was a good investment.
I think the program was very useful and Kydie have been always very helpfull to answer any questions I may have and provide support on the internship.
I hope I had some good news about the job very soon. Thanks Coco.
Regards,
Gonzalo作者: Kydie 时间: 2011-7-8 10:21
Bad debts are a reversal of the original sale, but the transaction is allocated to a bad debts expense account.
Setting up your Accounts List to record a bad debt
Creating a Bad Debts expense account is the only preparation needed for recording bad debts.
To do this:
1.Go to the Accounts command centre and click Account List.
2.Click the Expense tab then click New.
3.Give the account a unique number that suits your account list.
4.Name the account Bad Debts.
5.Click OK.
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How is a bad debt applied to a customer?
A bad debt is applied to a customer's account by first creating a credit note (GST Adjustment Note). This bad debt Adjustment Note is then applied to the outstanding invoice(s).
Step 1 - Creating the bad debt Adjustment Note
1.Go to the Sales command centre and click Enter Sales. In BusinessBasics go to the Command Centres menu and choose Sales then choose Enter Invoices.
2.Select the Customer and enter the transaction details including the Invoice Number, Date and Memo. Use the Memo field to record the purpose of the transaction.
3.Click the Layout button along the bottom of the sales entry screen. Choose the Service layout and click OK.
4.Enter an appropriate description such as Bad debt.
5.Select the Bad Debts expense account in the Acct# field. When you do, you will receive a warning message that says that the account used to allocate a sale is usually an income account. Disregard this message and click OK.
6.In the Amount field, enter a negative value equal to the bad debt amount.
7.Apply the relevant tax code. You may need to reference the original invoice(s) to determine which tax code to use.
8.Click Record.
Note: As this will affect your GST reporting, you may need to forward a copy of this Adjustment Note to the customer.作者: Kydie 时间: 2011-7-12 13:09
Step 2 - Applying the bad debt Adjustment Note
The bad debt Adjustment Note is applied to the customer's account by using the Returns & Credits tab of the Sales Register.
1.Go to the Sales command centre, click Sales Register and click the Returns and Credits tab.
2.Highlight the bad debt Adjustment Note then click the Apply to Sale button.
3.In the Settle Returns and Credits window, in the Amount Applied column enter the amount for you want to apply (write-off) for each invoice listed.
4.Click Record.
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How does a bad debt affect the GST and BAS?
Cash reporting
Using the method described above, a bad debt won't affect the GST where the GST is reported on a cash basis. This is because GST collected is only reported once the payment has been received from the customer. Since the customer never paid the invoice, no GST would have been reported.
Accrual reporting
Using the method described above, the Adjustment Note will be included in your BAS for this period at G1.作者: Kydie 时间: 2011-7-19 15:27
Dear Coco,
Hope you reached Sydney safely.
I want to thank you for going through all that trouble to teach us during the last week end.
I must tell you that 90% of what I learnt was fairly new to me and I found it quite challenging to stay in the same page as you during the training as I do not have any accounting background. (Even the idiots guide to accounting is too complicated for me!)
(You may have already noticed me, I was the one looking totally lost during the exercises, I did my best to understand the fundamentals though.. Ha ha ha)
But this training made me understand the level of knowledge required by the accounting field and I must tell you as challanging as it may seem, I am all motivated to push my capabilities to the limit and accquire as much knowlede and practice to become one of your best trainees. With the blessings of God and the help of Kydie and you , I am confident I will achive it.
I am writing to you just after completing my pracrice on your session on prepaynents.
I wish you all the best and please do keep in touch.
Kind regards,
Debbie
p.s I will have to practice realy hard before I come in for my Internship.作者: Kydie 时间: 2011-7-21 12:37
Hi Coco
Thanks for congratulations.
Yes, I am quite happy with this role, it is great for both my family commitment and career development.
Today is my first day at work, I feel much more confident than last time :), and I find that what I have learned and practised at Florian Accounting is very useful for my current job.
Hope to see you soon
Jane作者: Kydie 时间: 2011-7-26 16:35 www.floriancorp.com.au (Training)作者: paopao 时间: 2011-8-17 12:47
Accounting Training & Internship!!!作者: paopao 时间: 2011-8-18 12:01
Tricky questions that been asked during the interview, we are here to share with all of you.
1. The Financial Controller has been called away unexpectedly, is not contactable and the accounts are due to the shareholder. What do you do?
·Firstly, acknowledge the shareholders of FC’s absence and see whether they can lose the payment term for this one-off scenario;
·If not, try to liaise with someone higher up in the company and your bank manager to have the authorisation done, such as company’s CEO or CFO who the FC reports to to have the payment approved;
2. What are the bookkeeping entries required for a deposit taken from a potential client that is refundable?
·When the deposit has been received, I will record as :
Dr Cash (deposit from client)
Cr Liability-refundable deposit
·If the deposit has been refund, the entries will be:
Dr Liability-refundable deposit
Cr Cash (deposit from client)
·When the further pmt was received
Dr Liability
Cr Revenue
Good luck,
Coco作者: paopao 时间: 2011-8-19 12:58
Dear Coco,
This is Jack. I went for the interview this morning.
The interviewer asked me to leave two referees on a form. But she did not clearly say that she is going to check the reference. She told me that she will have the EKKA holiday for the next few days, and probably get back to me on next monday.
Here is some feedback to share with trainees.
About the interview questions, as this is an employer's interview, it is pretty simple.
What qualifications do you have?
Tell something about their company.
why do you apply for this position?
what can you do for this company?
did you ever give any recommendation or do something to improve previous company's system and policy?
What did you get from your current position?
Technical question:
She gave me an supplier's invoice and asked me to point out the problems that the invoice may have.
Sincerely,
Jack作者: paopao 时间: 2011-8-23 14:40
Hi Kydie,
Thanks very much for the sharing. I am gonna preparing the answers for these questions now lol.
Wish Jack the best of luck! Thank him for the precious sharing.
Regards,
Kaily作者: paopao 时间: 2011-8-25 14:14
Hi Kydie
This is Alan. I received the resume from you already and it seen that the consultant has done a great job.
Thanks you.
Best Regards作者: paopao 时间: 2011-8-31 12:41
Hello Coco
First of all I would like to say huge thank you for all your help. Secondly I would like to say that I am sorry that I did not make a write up straight after I got a job. However from today’s perspective I can say that this is good as I can give you a wider overview of my job and duties.
To start with, I was not expecting the company to get back to me as the seek.com advertisement I applied for was already removed at the time they contacted me. The company name is theXXX, the one that hosts various events in Queensland. Surprisingly I only had one interview with the HR manager and the financial controller. The position is the Finance Officer – 6 months contract with probability of being extended. During the interview I was mostly asked general accounting questions on AR and AP like invoice input speed, familiarity with accounting packages as well as general questions about previous company work experience, team and working environment, so that was really not a tough one I must admit. Another side of the interview was about personality and expectations. I said that I would like to work hard, gain as much experience as possible and bring value to the company. One tip on answering such questions is to tell how much you enjoy your team in the current company, that you are very friendly, sociable and helpful, and that you are looking forward to work in similar friendly and professional environment.
A few words about the position itself. Finance officer is more than just AR or AP as you are asked to do whatever needs to be done in both areas and beyond. So during first 2 months I was doing all payables procedures, banking and invoicing side of the receivables and was asked to do balance sheet and P&L reconciliations (that was quite difficult for me being in the company for only 1 month or so). Over last month I was concentrated only on accounts payable due to separation of duties in order to be more effective during the tough Ekka times and ENORMOUS amounts of invoices to be paid. I am handling the payables for the whole company myself with the casual person helping out during the Ekka. The level of reporting is quite extensive compared to any companies that use MYOB. We use Microsoft Dynamics Navision that has a lot of software issues and needs to be maintained and fixed quite often. Nonetheless it is an ERP piece of software which is very good for my personal experience.
In conclusion, I want to say that I am very glad I came across Florian and very thankful to Coco for the help and guidance. I do wish all the best to the company and current interns. Thank you a lot for helping out people like myself to get on track!
Kind regards
Paul Belan作者: paopao 时间: 2011-9-2 15:44
Hi Coco & Kydie,
First of all, I'd like to say thank you to Coco for doing the reference check for me, so that I can secure this role of Accounts Officer. I was interviewed by Executive Officer and Finance Manager. Here are the questions I was asked in the interview:
1. Do you know about our company?
2. What do you do in your current job? Describe a day.
3. How do you work in your current team? What is your role?
4. Do you think you are a detail-oriented person?
5. Tell us how do you communicate with your clients?
6. How many tax invoices you do per week?
7. What do you want to achieve in the future?
After these work related questions, they started to ask me about myself, such as 'Where are you from? How long have you been in Australia? Are you here yourself? Do you go back to meet your parents often? etc." It is a good sign if they start to be interested in your personal stuff.
And then they asked if I have any questions would like to ask, I came up two as follows:
1. What are the key challenges of the role, particularly in the firt 6 months?
2. Could you tell me how many people are in my team, what are their roles?
The whole interview lasted about 1 hour. I was requested to give referee's information by email after interview.
Some thoughts from my experience:
1. Get prepared with the background of the firm you are going to be interviewed.
2. Try to give the example to the question.
3. Ask something particularly relate to the work.
4. Follow-up is important. (call and make sure they have received your email and express your interests again)
Best wishes to everyone!
Zac作者: paopao 时间: 2011-9-6 16:23
Hi Coco,
I had two interviews with 2 companies this week. Below is questions have been asked during the interviews:
The 1st company:
1. Tell me about yourself? I said I from Vietnam, I had Accounting background in my country (pls find my CV attachment)
2. How do you do credit card reconciliation?
3. Can you handle pressure? I said I handle pressure very well.
4. Can you stay late in the office to finish your job?
5. How many invoices you process a day?
6. Are you able to collect payment from debtor?
The 2nd company
He did not ask me much about questions related to accounting but he only asked 2 questions when he called to arrange for interview.
1. What is accrual? Is it a liability or asset?
2. What are employee’s entitlements?
I came seeing him this morning Friday. He told me about his company and checked my qualification and transcript. He asked:
1. Tell me about yourself?
Very much appreciated.
Best Regards,
Catherine Hoang作者: paopao 时间: 2011-9-7 15:10
Hi Kydie,
Thanks for the reference letter that you have sent to me and I appreciate your assistance & support given for me to complete the course so fast. Also I would like to give my gratitude and appreciation towards Coco for her best courage and guidance given towards this course.
I will definetly inform you about my job hunting progress and also will post some more interview queries that I came across in the interviews. I will keep in touch with you.
Thanks again & have a nice afternoon,
Shalika作者: paopao 时间: 2011-9-20 17:00
Hi Coco,
How are you? Really want to share this exciting moment with you.finally i got job offer from company i applied for the role of Accounts Officer.starting work there from Monday.
want to thank you for everything,your training,your guidance,your support and reference check.i am sending you my interview detail so it can help other trainees as well.
i had one phone interview,two face to face interview and finally they said me to come for trial approximately for 2 hours.
Ist round was phone interview
1.How long u been doing internship at Florian?
2.what do you do there?
3.Do you have admin experience as well?
and she said if i will be successful for next stage i will get call in next 24 hours.Finally i successful and went for face to face interview.
2nd round with Business operational Manager.
1.Tell me about your self.
2.Tell me about your internship in Florian.
3.What do you do on daily basis?
4.where you used to work before?
5.She asked me some personal questions like my background,how long you been here.
6.Any question for me.
then she told me about company and my role,and said Senior Accountant is on holiday coming back next week,so when you can come for another interview with her in next week?
3rd round with Sr. Accountant
1.Again whats you do in your current intern role?
2.What is cost center analysis?
3.How do you handle pressure?
4.whats your expectation from this role?
5.few questions from my previous job.
Finally she said you are amazing can you come for trial (they wanted to see how comfortable i am with this role) and after Trial they said they have few more candidates and they will let me know by tomorrow and next morning finally they said we are going to check your references.And finally offered me job.Guys it took my 2 weeks quite long time from first round to final trial.it looks funny now but that time i was nervous,but Coco was there for me,she said if i need help i can ring her any time,soooooooo supportive.
Many Many thanks Coco.
I will come and see you,want to thank you personally.
Regards,
Amita Narwal作者: paopao 时间: 2011-10-11 16:09
Accounting training and internship!!!!作者: paopao 时间: 2011-10-13 14:48
Great news!!!
Florian Accounting has created an Interview Tigs Blog,