Interview Questions on Academic Subjects

What is the Personal Income Tax rate?
What are Direct and Indirect Taxes? Give examples.
Why does a Balance Sheet balance?
Is loss an asset or a liability?
What are LIFO & FIFO? What are they used for?
What are Quick Assets?
What is Amortisation?
What is Depreciation? What are the different methods of Depreciation? Which method is better and why?
Do you know what N.P.V. discounting is?
What are Derivatives?
What are Options and Futures?
What is Operating Ratio?
Does dividend reduce profits?
What is Trial Balance?
Why is Trial Balance used?
If ledger postings are computerised, do you require a Trial Balance?
What is the highest rate of Depreciation under Income Tax and for what items?
Does depreciation reduce profit?
What is Current Ratio?
What is Working Capital?
What is the ideal Current Ratio? Why?
What is Negative Working Capital and explain its implications?
What is Discretionary Expense?
What is Capital and Revenue Expenditure?
When can Revenue Expenditure be capitalised?
Is there any ratio of the expense incurred and cost of asset to capitalise the expense?
What are the advantages of Capitalisation?
If you are an investor, what will you look for before you invest in a company?
What would happen if a company pays a lower dividend?
Can you draw up a Balance Sheet?
What is Fiscal Deficit?
What is Budget Deficit?
What is Mean / Median?
Where does Goodwill appear in a Balance Sheet? Why?
Explain 'Going Concern' concept.
Explain various costs in cost sheet.
What is 'Contra-entry'?
What is Country of Origin?
Can the captain of the vessel dump the goods in the middle of the sea?
What is Sight Draft?
What is Capital Account Convertibility?
What is Corporate Tax? Is it a direct or indirect tax?
What is the elasticity of demand and supply in corporate taxation?
What are the differences between companies falling under small and medium sector?
What is the difference between Excise Duty and Customs Duty?
Can depreciation be on fixed assets only?
As depreciation is to fixed assets, what is the same analogous to debtors?
How much depreciation would you charge on a building - 5% or 10%? Why?
Why is it that one has a 30% depreciation on computers and less on buildings?
What is Single Entry? Why is it considered inferior to Double Entry?
What is Bank Reconciliation Statement? What are its advantages?
What is Tariff?
What is the difference between Tariff & Customs Duty?
What is Ad Valorem Duty?
What is a Surcharge?
Explain the calculation of IRR or NPV.
What are the various costs in Accounting?
What is Direct Cost?
Is it a Fixed Cost or a Variable Cost?
What is an Indirect Cost?
What is Marginal Cost?
How is the Exchange Rate between two currencies determined?
What do you understand of the term 'Option'?
Define Fischer's Equation?
What is the difference between Financial, Cost and Management Accounting?
What does a Management Accountant do?
What ratios did you learn?
What is Current Ratio?
What is the ideal Current Ratio?
What is the history of Double Entry?
If a company spends on training of personnel, how does it account for?
What is an Asset?
What is Social Accounting?
Is HR an asset? If shown on balance sheet what can you think of as corresponding liability?
What is Trading A/c? Manufacturing A/c? The profit from Trading A/c is transferred to?
What is Goodwill? What are the methods by which it is calculated?
What is Marginal Rate of Taxation?
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