Rhianrach wrote:

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I like her, but then I'm a deviant.

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 Me too now!

Don't blame me, it's the cat, it's a distraction.

Good luck Neil, I think it sounds from what you say, that they are after a purchase ledger bod with a view to taking on other ad-hoc tasks as and when, therefore a great opportunity to move through the company, so on and so forth. In this climate they may get applicants with 5000 years experience, they may want someone who they can train to do things their own way.

It sounds to me like they would be missing a trick if they didn't take you on, as you are obviously capable of more than the job would demand.

My only tip would be not to lie about your abilities, however dressing up your experience is never a bad move in my book.

At least it's only bookkeeping, I do the above and then some 

You'll be fine Neil, if you get the job make it part of your morning routine to log onto this forum. You'll probably find that you are worrying over nothing and everything you have learnt will come flooding back and make lots of sense.

Good luck

I really can't decide whether i did ok or they are comparing me to something they stepped in lol. I stuck to my manufacturing background, giving the (true) reason for wanting to progress into accounts, which is thus:- for me to gain employment in manufacturing at the level i have worked my way up to i would not be able to have a decent relationship with other maufacturing staff as most supervisory and managerial roles are achieved through career progression. I would like to be able to work alongside the maufacture staff and gain an in depth understanding of the process and having dealt personally, building very solid relationships with customers and suppliers i consider an accounts role the next step. I told them i had a million bookkeepers and accountants backing me too lol. Actually i said i had friends in bookkeeping i could question reliably. Told them i was comfortable with bookkeeping even though not 100%, i would be confident as long as i could question without worry. My AAT cert has stood me in good stead, that seemed to go down well. Alas they are interviewing more people than i was originally told as more and more CVs have popped up so i won't be holding my breath in this current climate. One question was "have you tried getting here via the motorway at 7:30 in the morning?" since my interview wasn't scheduled for untill 11:30 why would i have? I replied by saying that i would definitely be leaving earlier than that even if it means finding somewhere for a cup of coffee..................the rest is a blur. Oh yeah, i haven't had dealings with foreign currency or internet sales..that seemed to be a worry.

Ah well, I came, i saw, i returned home.

Neil.

kjmcculloch83 wrote:

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What do they do Peasie? They look like they could cause some damage.

Kris

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Copied/pasted from Wikipedia (so it must be true)

Tenterhooks were used as far back as the fourteenth century in the process of making woollen cloth. After the cloth was woven it still contained oil from the fleece and some dirt. A fuller(also called a tucker or walker) cleaned the woollen cloth in a fulling mill, and then had to dry it carefully or the wool would shrink. To prevent this shrinkage, the fuller would place the wet cloth on a large wooden frame, a "tenter", and leave it to dry outside. The lengths of wet cloth were stretched on the tenter (from Latin tendere, meaning "to stretch") using hooks (nails driven through the wood) all around the perimeter of the frame to which the cloth's edges (selvedges) were fixed so that as it dried the cloth would retain its shape and size.[1] At one time it would have been common in manufacturing areas to see tenter-fields full of these frames.

By the mid-eighteenth century the phrase "on tenterhooks" came into use to mean being in a state of uneasiness, anxiety, or suspense, stretched like the cloth on the tenter.

Spamkebab wrote:

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Well that went well.

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 more details matey...

We've all been on tentahooks all morning!... What is a tentahook?

Keep thinking positive thoughts Neil. Absolutely sure that you've done fine.

Only issue you might have is if the next candidate through the door is some cute single 23 year old with a thing for older accountants... I know that would tick all of my boxes regardless as to her qualifications but then again I also think that I'm one of the last bastions of political incorrectness!