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 behaviours 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.