How do you interview an accounting firm without knowing accounting?

kimmy.k · 2/14/2025

Questions that worked for me: who is actually doing my work day to day, what is your response time in writing, what happens in March when you are slammed, and can you show me a sample monthly package. The sample package filtered out half the candidates immediately.

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Ask who does the actual work, how fast they answer email, and what happens when they are wrong. The last one tells you the most.
meghan_the_cfo · 2/15/2025
Also ask what software they refuse to work in. If the answer is "we are flexible," they are not.
thatguyfromlehi · 2/15/2025
Ask for a client in your industry at your size. Not a logo list. A phone number.
Cheryl · 2/17/2025
We did the reference call thing and it caught a firm that was great at tax and had lost 3 bookkeepers in a year. Thank you all.
kimmy.k · 3/6/2025