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Accountancy SJT

This Situational Judgement Test assesses purposeful engagement, creating clarity, driving peak performance and professional credibility in scenarios relevant to accountancy roles.

The assessment presents 16 scenarios, with candidates selecting the most and least appropriate response from four options for each. It is untimed and typically takes up to 15 minutes. Major accountancy firms use SJTs of this kind when recruiting apprentice, trainee and newly qualified accountants.

Duration
Approximately 15 minutes
Untimed
Scenarios
16
Format
Written scenarios
Competencies
Purposeful Engagement, Creating Clarity, Driving Peak Performance, Professional Credibility
Reports
3 samples
See below

Try a sample question

These are the practice questions a candidate sees before the Accountancy SJT starts. Have a go — the answer and an explanation appear after each one. Nothing is recorded.

A senior accountant has allocated you and three of your colleagues to an assignment that needs to be completed within the next four weeks. It involves reviewing a large volume of detailed financial documents for an audit. How would you tackle this?

Select the response you believe is MOST appropriate and the response you believe is LEAST appropriate.

MostLeast
Suggest splitting the work fairly amongst you all, so you can clearly focus on what each of you need to deliver
Talk with your colleagues about how you work together to meet the deadline and ensure high quality work
Suggest working closely as a team is likely to be the best approach, so you can support each other throughout
Request a meeting with the senior accountant to discuss the assignment and ask how they think you should approach it

Sample reports

Real reports generated for a sample candidate through the same pipeline a live sitting goes through.

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Sample Recruitment Report
See a real example of the confidential report the hiring team receives -- percentile, band and interpretation for each competency.
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Sample Candidate Report
See a real example of the feedback report a candidate can be sent -- no scores, plain-language development advice.
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Sample Interview Guide
See a real example of the interview guide -- probe questions for each competency, ready for the panel.
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