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20 common audit interview questions

Here are the questions you're most likely to be asked in an interview for an internship or graduate role in audit

A taxing issue for French football

Craig O'Callaghan finds out why AS Monaco face a fight to keep their privileged tax status

A year in audit at EY

Industrial placement student Sophie Morris talks to Keely Lockhart about her experiences at the Big Four firm

Accounting across the country

Lucy Mair finds out about the exciting work on offer in Deloitte's regional audit practices

Accounting application, interview and assessment day advice

Accounting firms are looking for driven, motivated and resilient people with intellectual agility and curiosity who can stay focused and get things done.

Accounting for the Credit Crunch

Already financial services companies- investment banks and asset managers- are scaling back their recruitment intake for 2009.

Accounting for the public sector

Our public bodies are experiencing unprecedented change. We find out how professional services firm Grant Thornton is involved

Accounting in football

Despite experiencing big jumps in revenue, Finbarr Bermingham outlines why the accounting practices of Europe's top football clubs need to change

Accounting internships

If you’re considering working in accounting in the future, a summer internship can provide you with an idea of what to expect and also open doors for you when the time comes to look for a graduate job.

Accounting internships: what you need to know

Administration explained

These days, we're always hearing about the administrators being called in. But what's it all about?

All systems go

Finbarr Bermingham speaks to two Deloitte technology employees to get all the data on graduate opportunities

Answering business questions in a professional services interview

You need to demonstrate good business knowledge to impress at an interview at a professional services firm. The Gateway shows you how it's done

Are you game?

The Gateway put their heads together and take on Ernst & Young's 'Game on challenge.'

Audit: the big 4 issue

Audit work in Britain is monopolised by the world's largest accountancy firms. The Gateway asks why, and what the implications are

Battle of the accountants

Hannah Langworth explains a transatlantic dispute dividing the profession

Big Four caught in the middle of a US-China quarrel

Keely Lockhart explains why the world's largest accounting firms are facing an American ban on auditing Chinese companies

Big Four dominance here to stay

Recent Competition Commission findings on the audit market are a distraction from the industry's real flaws

Big Four time

Are you up for the challenge of joining a leading professional services firm?

Big break-up?

Lucy Mair takes a look at the EC's proposals to reform the professional services industry - and the implications for the Big Four

Broaden your horizons: accounting in the public sector

Keely Lockhart spoke to David Barnett about his experience studying for his ACA qualification from ICAEW and his work in HM Treasury

Broaden your horizons: become an accountant inside a business

Keely Lockhart discovers how training for the ACA qualification from ICAEW can lead to a variety of roles within the private and public sectors

Broken business rates

The current system for taxing businesses is compromising the future of the high street, reports Keely Lockhart

Career progression

Starting a career in accounting as a graduate opens up many opportunities.

Choosing an accounting firm to work for

To help you make sense of the landscape of professional services firms that are recruiting graduates, we've split the most important firms up into three groups according to their size, and provided a brief description of each.

Commercial awareness: Tesco

Our banker, lawyer, accountant and consultant consider this ongoing supermarket scandal

Cutting tax

Accountants have to keep up with changes to corporation tax so they can help their clients - The Gateway gives you the latest

Data assurance at PwC

Finbarr Bermingham learns about a fascinating area of PwC's technology offering with great opportunities for graduates

First steps: the value of an internship

A look at EY's summer internship programme

First year opportunities at EY

Ernst & Young are in the business of innovation and are looking for generals, from first year on