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Testing for a supervisor's position?  Review these resources in addition to the test guides below:

• The New Leader's 100-Day Action Plan: How to Take Charge, Build Your Team, and Get Immediate Results, George Bradt, 2011
  The New Leader's 100-Day Action Plan will help ensure that you achieve all of your goals in your next leadership role by implementing an effective plan, starting even before Day One.
• The First 90 Days: Proven Strategies for Getting Up to Speed Faster and Smarter, Michael Watkins 2013
  A hands-on guide for moving successfully into a new role.  Walk through the transition as Watkins identifies the most common pitfalls new leaders encounter and provides tools/strategies for how to avoid them. 
• Skills for New Managers, Morey Stettner, 2013
  Specific answers for key responsibilities including delegating work, communicating effectively, mentoring, leadership, and coaching.  Includes bulleted lists, checklists and definition of terms.
• 101 Tough Conversations to Have with Employees: A Manager's Guide to Addressing Performance, Conduct, and Discipline Challenges, Paul Falcone, 2009
  Covering everything from substandard performance reviews to personal hygiene to termination meetings, this guide helps managers on what to say and how to say it.  Good resource for test questions regarding frequently encountered supervision situations.
• Complete Interview Guide with Supervision Guide
  From job-interview.net, 200+ possible interview questions on supervision including behavioral/situational questions. Plus, answers to the toughest supervision interview questions.

Need help for a specific subject such as word problems and math?  Click here for guides and free help for the most difficult test areas

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Free accounting practice interviews from job-interview.net

1. Accountant

2. Accounts Payable Supervisor

SAMPLE QUESTIONS

• Accountant study guides from the Illinois State Universities Civil Service System

• New York State Civil Service Study Guides for Account/ Audit Clerical Series.  

• State of Louisiana has sample test questions for Accounting Paraprofessional and Accounting/Auditing.  Click on "Sample Test Questions" on the left and you'll find sample questions by job and by subject.

REFERENCE

1. Governmental Accounting Made Easy, Warren Ruppel, 2009
2. Government and Not-for-Profit Accounting: Concepts and Practices, Michael Granof, 2010

ACCOUNTING 

1. Account Clerk, Jack Rudman, 2004

2. Account Clerk-Typist, Jack Rudman, 2005

3. Accountant, Jack Rudman, 1997

4. Accountant I, Jack Rudman, 2002

5. Accountant II, Jack Rudman, 2002

6. Accounting Technician, Jack Rudman, 2012

7. Bookkeeper, Jack Rudman, 2003

8. Cashier (Career Examination Series: C 131), 2006

9. Senior Account Clerk, Jack Rudman, 2004

10. Principal Account Clerk, Jack Rudman, 2003

BANKING AND INVESTMENT 

1. Banking Examiner Trainee, Jack Rudman, 2000

2. Investment Officer Trainee, Jack Rudman, 2001

PAYROLL

1. Assistant Payroll Supervisor, Jack Rudman, 2001

2. Head Clerk Payroll, Jack Rudman, 2004

3. Payroll Auditor, Jack Rudman, 2003

4. Payroll Supervisor, Jack Rudman, 2004