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"Traditionally we would hire accountants based on their tested technical competence, without considering how they would fit into a team based on their personal profile. The APPQ system helps us hire new people in a way that balances our team."
Sue de Bievre, CEO - Beany, NZ

"I highly recommend Accountests to any firm looking to improve its hiring process. This resource has been an invaluable asset to our practice for discernment in hiring candidates. The tests provided by the website give us information that we cannot gather from an interview or a resume alone. It is a missing piece of the hiring process that has saved our firm thousands of dollars by preventing a mis-hire."
Stephanie Anderson EA, CTP - Tax Prose, Inc., CA

APPQ - Accountants Personality Profile

Name: APPQ - Accountants Personality Profile
Brand: Accountests
Price: 250.0 USD
Availability: InStock

$250.00

Accountants Personality Profile

Why Use Personality Questionnaires When Recruiting?

Valid and reliable personality assessments quickly uncover the soft skills associated with success in accounting and bookkeeping roles.

Accountant Personality Profile Questionnaire (APPQ)

The APPQ is the first accountant-specific personality questionnaire in the world.

Focusing on the behaviors and traits associated with success in a changing world of accounting first identified by the Association of Certified Chartered Accountants (ACCA) in their landmark 2016 study and founded on the Big-5 model of personality, APPQ provides a rapid and reliable assessment of whether your candidate is likely to add value to your organization.

Key Features

Specific focus on Accounting Ethics, Relationships, Problem Solving, Decision Making, Handling Change & Stress Tolerance
Suitable for Accountants, Bookkeepers, Managers and Admin/Support Staff
Online assessment, with instant reporting
Typically takes 20 minutes to complete

Interview questions to address areas of concern
Personal/professional development plans to get new staff effective quicker
Reports readily interpreted by you, with online support when needed
Each test purchased allows you to test one candidate

Consider Suitability for Promotion or a New Role - Finders / Minders / Grinders

How will your candidate cope with managing a team, being responsible for client relationships and finding new work? Not familiar with the concept of Finders, Minders and Grinders? Check out what the guys at Karbon have to say.

Compare your candidate's report to our ideal profiles to identify those who Find the work, Mind (Manage) the work, and Grind out the information (Do The Work!).

Is your candidate naturally a Finder, Minder or Grinder, and what role do you see them in? See our Finder / Minder / Grinder page.

Test Your Team!

If you want to understand the profile of all or part of your team check out our APPQ Teams page.

Watch a 2 Minute Video giving an introduction to APPQ

Example APPQ Candidate Report - Click Here

When your candidate has completed the test you can use these Interpretation Videos to help understand more about their test report.

What our clients are saying

Here's what some of Accountests clients tell us

"The abilities being shown by the recruited candidate correlates with the outcome of their test, and they are progressing and delivering to expectations"

Partner

BDO

"The Accountest was an extremely useful tool which assisted in our recruitment decision. The person we engaged is at the standard we expected and is in-line with the skill rating in the test results"

Karen Abery

Practice Manager, Ingham Mora

"We now use these tests to assess all potential accounting staff as part of our recruitment process."

Dianne Wilson

Business Manager, McIntyre Dick

"The candidates that do well in the test certainly seem to be our better performers."

Arran Findlayson

CEO, The Back Office Co

"We have found that Accountests gives us the opportunity to understand our candidates accounting ability, which no other product has done until now. It also gives us the opportunity to base further questions for the candidate around what we can see their ability is and enable us to make an informed decision."

Sharlene Bryant

Director, Baker Tilly

"The tool was great and formed a good part of the pre-employment process for us."

Danielle Dwyer

HR Manager, Flavorite Marketing

"Hiring professionals and vetting them is one of the most challenging and subjective areas of running a business. Accountests allowed us to gauge a candidates skills so that we made more informed decision which saved us both time and money."

Ilona Brunner, CPA, MBA

Founder, Brunner Accounting Group