Bookkeeping - US GAAP test

The bookkeeping test is expected to, among other things, test a job candidate's knowledge of: (i) how accounting principles, concepts and conventions are applied in recording economic events that take place during (and at the end of) the accounting period; (ii) what steps constitute the accounting cycle/process and what activities are involved; (iii) what financial statements are fundamentally about; (iv) how to rectify accounting errors detected during (and at the end of) the accounting period; and (v) how to reconcile account balances across the company's internally kept cash book and bank-prepared bank statements.

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8 min.

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Accounting Principles and the Accounting Process

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Albert Mensah

Assistant Professor of Accounting and Management Control at HEC Paris

Albert is an Assistant Professor of Accounting at HEC Paris, where he teaches the Financial Accounting course on the MBA program and conducts archival financial empirical research. Albert has almost two decades-long experience in financial and managerial accounting, both in the classroom (he has senior high school, bachelor, masters and PhD degrees in accounting) and in the industry (he has previously taught undergraduate students and has also worked as an accounts officer, acting accountant and consultant). He holds professional accreditations as a Certified Public Accountant (CPA), a Chartered Economist (Ch.E) and a Chartered Financial Economist (Ch.FE).

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