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Moneydance 2017 7 1 – Personal Finance Manager Interview

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Finance managers know the ins and outs of a plethora of different financial documents. The applicant should be aware that a cash flow statement reflects what a company is doing with its money and where it is coming from; however, it does not take into account liabilities and assets.

I'm overjoyed to announce the fourth update to Moneydance 2015! Primo iphone data recovery 2 3 12. This version is packed full of bug fixes and improvements, many of which were reported or requested by our wonderful customers. We appreciate all of your feedback and look forward to incorporating more of it into future updates!

Moneydance is a complete personal financial management application that includes features such as online banking, online bill payment, investment management, budget tracking, scheduled transactions, check printing, detailed graphs, reports and much more. HOME PAGE This is an overview of your finances. Moneydance is a powerful yet easy to use personal finance app for Mac, Windows, Linux, iPhone and iPad. With online banking, online bill payment, investment management and budgeting, Moneydance provides all the features of Quicken plus benefits such as ease of use and no sunsetting of features.

If you've purchased Moneydance 2014 or 2015, then this update is completely free. Anyone who purchased an older version of Moneydance gets a stupendous 50% off the regular price when upgrading through the website; just a small thank you for being a loyal customer. As usual, we never force you to upgrade Moneydance: old versions will continue working for just as long as you like. We never 'sunset' features or services, so if you purchase Moneydance you won't end up on a never-ending upgrade treadmill.

As always, you can download Moneydance 2015 here, or if you are updating from a previous version, here. I'm happy to say that Moneydance 2015 is finally available directly from the Mac App Store:

If you see the old version of Moneydance on the Mac App Store then please retry after an hour as the change may still be propagating through Apple's system.

Please note however that the Mac App Store version of Moneydance is limited in some ways including not having the extension/plugin installer and receiving less frequent updates.

Moneydance 2017 7 1 – personal finance manager interview questions and answers


Here's the full list of improvements in this update:

  • If a report row references a split transaction, ‘drilling down' into it now opens the transaction in the entry account register rather than the category register
  • Batch changing the category now works for bank transactions in investment account registers
  • Handle foreign currency information when importing/downloading transactions
  • Show security name in lot matching window title
  • Tweak report title font size
  • Fixed loop when cancelling lot matching window
  • Sort transactions by date in detailed cash flow report
  • Improve consistency in reports when showing the description and memo fields for the other sides of transactions
  • Show the new-transaction panel at the top of the register when the sort order has more recent transactions appearing at the top
  • Unset reconciling status when duplicating a cleared transaction, since the duplicate should be considered new.
  • Show more consistent description and memo fields in transaction reports
  • Fixed bug that is often triggered by removing certain budgets from the sidebar
  • When re-connecting an account to an OFX service, we no longer reset the last-download date so that the next connection doesn't re-download all available transactions (which could go back quite a while)
  • Tab/comma-delimited exports now properly format dates
  • Fix bug in which expanded/collapsed sidebar section state was not preserved
  • Many behind-the-scenes improvements to budget bars and account selection
  • Move File->Export Archive menu to just below the regular Export menu
  • Fix bug that caused inter-currency reminder notifications to have any prices/rates overwritten when being applied
  • Updated linux installers/packages to use java 1.8.0_45
  • Fixed summary screen budgets in which the selected budget (or whether a budget was selected) wouldn't be remembered, resulting in lots of 'not in budget' labels appearing for categories which were actually in a budget
  • Fix bug that excluded certain possible buy transactions from lot matching
  • Fix bug that caused the ‘available shares' column to be inaccurate when matching stock purchase/sale lots
  • Fix a sorting error that could occur when opening an insanely huge register full of transactions with the same date and entry date-time
  • Under-the-hood changes relating to transaction sorting
  • Hopefully fix an issue in which investment performance graphs don't adjust for splits until after a restart immediately after updating from Moneydance 2014
  • Automatically select the budget item row when editing a budget item
  • Fix budget editor/viewer bug that used way more CPU than necessary
  • Ensure security/stock splits are always sorted to make sure that security history graphs and calculations are properly computed
  • Avoid stack overflow errors in cases when account hierarchies are broken (such as if an account is set as its own parent)
  • Add CA certificate for SecureTrust to allow Marshland FCU to work
  • Fixed bug in which an account could possibly be set as the parent of one of it's ancestors, causing a rift in space-time
  • Fix sidebar scrollbar background colour on windows
  • Fix alignment of preference options for decimal points
  • Make budget bar font more readable and match new theme better
  • Added preference setting to use higher contrast colours
  • Slight improvement to performance when showing unconfirmed transaction details or transaction attachments in the register
  • Fixed bug in which no transaction attachments were displayed for transactions with more than one attachment
  • Improved presentation of transaction attachments
  • Set a sensible name for print jobs
  • Restore the ability to request a wider date range for certain banks when downloading transactions
  • Fix bug when syncing updates to split transactions from mobile devices
  • Fix bug in the install-extensions window
  • Fix horrible title font size and lack of antialiasing in printed reports
  • Fix foreground colour differences in bank vs investment registers
  • Add fields/settings for credit card accounts: payment type, rate expiration, etc (merged from Debt Insights extension)
  • Show transaction details in a slightly more readable format (no more XML ugliness)
  • Add a DebtPaymentSpec account setting to the core API (merged from Debt Insights extension)
  • Exclude inactive accounts from the download all action.
  • Fix for garbled text bug that affects some Windows computers.
  • Vastly improve UI performance when many values are updated in many different parts of the UI
  • Duplicated investment transactions now retain their internal tags which identify the kind of transaction (ie Dividend, MiscIncome, etc)
  • Added a marker to future transactions that has high contrast with the foreground/background colours to ensure that they stand out for all types of colour-blindness
  • Improved lot matching UI to prevent buy transactions from displaying when no sell transaction is selected
  • Implement probably undetectable speedups
  • Fixed bug in which lot matching information from MD2014 was not reflected in the MD2015 UI
  • Added Symantec intermediate CA certificate to allow trusted connections to Hilliard Lyons bank (which doesn't send the intermediate cert).
  • Use numeric/monospaced font for values in security detail
  • Added Verisign Root CA Certificate
  • Fix bug in which online banking payee list changes are not saved across restarts
  • Minor fix for locale display in preferences
  • Use a 64 bit number when calculating the next check number, to avoid overflow in very rare circumstances
  • Added Dutch Locale (thanks to Gideon van Melle!)
  • updated German text (thanks to Marc Kaulisch!)
  • More tweaking of the font used for numeric fields
  • Transactions recorded locally from an online bill payment now use the 'processing' date provided by the bank upon submission of the payment, but only if it makes sense.
  • The online bill payment panel now requests confirmation before deleting a payee or cancelling a payment
  • No longer use light-grey for the second row of transaction details in the register
  • Increase contrast between foreground and background colours in the register; especially for future transactions.
  • Use numeric/monospaced font for rates and foreign amounts in the register
  • Trying out some alternative fonts for numeric values
  • Temporarily restrict secure connections to TLS1 because BB&T's (and other bank's) OFX servers will not negotiate a TLS1.1 or 1.2 connection
  • When submitting online bill payments, if the bank returns a 'processed date' of today then use the payment date
  • When matching downloaded transactions that have check numbers, allow a 3x wider date window for potential merges
  • Fixed bug in which duplicating an existing mixed-interval (old style) budget caused the copy to become a new style budget
  • Entries in the transaction entry payee/description popup and now sorted properly
Moneydance 2017 7 1 – Personal Finance Manager Interview


Here's the full list of improvements in this update:

  • If a report row references a split transaction, ‘drilling down' into it now opens the transaction in the entry account register rather than the category register
  • Batch changing the category now works for bank transactions in investment account registers
  • Handle foreign currency information when importing/downloading transactions
  • Show security name in lot matching window title
  • Tweak report title font size
  • Fixed loop when cancelling lot matching window
  • Sort transactions by date in detailed cash flow report
  • Improve consistency in reports when showing the description and memo fields for the other sides of transactions
  • Show the new-transaction panel at the top of the register when the sort order has more recent transactions appearing at the top
  • Unset reconciling status when duplicating a cleared transaction, since the duplicate should be considered new.
  • Show more consistent description and memo fields in transaction reports
  • Fixed bug that is often triggered by removing certain budgets from the sidebar
  • When re-connecting an account to an OFX service, we no longer reset the last-download date so that the next connection doesn't re-download all available transactions (which could go back quite a while)
  • Tab/comma-delimited exports now properly format dates
  • Fix bug in which expanded/collapsed sidebar section state was not preserved
  • Many behind-the-scenes improvements to budget bars and account selection
  • Move File->Export Archive menu to just below the regular Export menu
  • Fix bug that caused inter-currency reminder notifications to have any prices/rates overwritten when being applied
  • Updated linux installers/packages to use java 1.8.0_45
  • Fixed summary screen budgets in which the selected budget (or whether a budget was selected) wouldn't be remembered, resulting in lots of 'not in budget' labels appearing for categories which were actually in a budget
  • Fix bug that excluded certain possible buy transactions from lot matching
  • Fix bug that caused the ‘available shares' column to be inaccurate when matching stock purchase/sale lots
  • Fix a sorting error that could occur when opening an insanely huge register full of transactions with the same date and entry date-time
  • Under-the-hood changes relating to transaction sorting
  • Hopefully fix an issue in which investment performance graphs don't adjust for splits until after a restart immediately after updating from Moneydance 2014
  • Automatically select the budget item row when editing a budget item
  • Fix budget editor/viewer bug that used way more CPU than necessary
  • Ensure security/stock splits are always sorted to make sure that security history graphs and calculations are properly computed
  • Avoid stack overflow errors in cases when account hierarchies are broken (such as if an account is set as its own parent)
  • Add CA certificate for SecureTrust to allow Marshland FCU to work
  • Fixed bug in which an account could possibly be set as the parent of one of it's ancestors, causing a rift in space-time
  • Fix sidebar scrollbar background colour on windows
  • Fix alignment of preference options for decimal points
  • Make budget bar font more readable and match new theme better
  • Added preference setting to use higher contrast colours
  • Slight improvement to performance when showing unconfirmed transaction details or transaction attachments in the register
  • Fixed bug in which no transaction attachments were displayed for transactions with more than one attachment
  • Improved presentation of transaction attachments
  • Set a sensible name for print jobs
  • Restore the ability to request a wider date range for certain banks when downloading transactions
  • Fix bug when syncing updates to split transactions from mobile devices
  • Fix bug in the install-extensions window
  • Fix horrible title font size and lack of antialiasing in printed reports
  • Fix foreground colour differences in bank vs investment registers
  • Add fields/settings for credit card accounts: payment type, rate expiration, etc (merged from Debt Insights extension)
  • Show transaction details in a slightly more readable format (no more XML ugliness)
  • Add a DebtPaymentSpec account setting to the core API (merged from Debt Insights extension)
  • Exclude inactive accounts from the download all action.
  • Fix for garbled text bug that affects some Windows computers.
  • Vastly improve UI performance when many values are updated in many different parts of the UI
  • Duplicated investment transactions now retain their internal tags which identify the kind of transaction (ie Dividend, MiscIncome, etc)
  • Added a marker to future transactions that has high contrast with the foreground/background colours to ensure that they stand out for all types of colour-blindness
  • Improved lot matching UI to prevent buy transactions from displaying when no sell transaction is selected
  • Implement probably undetectable speedups
  • Fixed bug in which lot matching information from MD2014 was not reflected in the MD2015 UI
  • Added Symantec intermediate CA certificate to allow trusted connections to Hilliard Lyons bank (which doesn't send the intermediate cert).
  • Use numeric/monospaced font for values in security detail
  • Added Verisign Root CA Certificate
  • Fix bug in which online banking payee list changes are not saved across restarts
  • Minor fix for locale display in preferences
  • Use a 64 bit number when calculating the next check number, to avoid overflow in very rare circumstances
  • Added Dutch Locale (thanks to Gideon van Melle!)
  • updated German text (thanks to Marc Kaulisch!)
  • More tweaking of the font used for numeric fields
  • Transactions recorded locally from an online bill payment now use the 'processing' date provided by the bank upon submission of the payment, but only if it makes sense.
  • The online bill payment panel now requests confirmation before deleting a payee or cancelling a payment
  • No longer use light-grey for the second row of transaction details in the register
  • Increase contrast between foreground and background colours in the register; especially for future transactions.
  • Use numeric/monospaced font for rates and foreign amounts in the register
  • Trying out some alternative fonts for numeric values
  • Temporarily restrict secure connections to TLS1 because BB&T's (and other bank's) OFX servers will not negotiate a TLS1.1 or 1.2 connection
  • When submitting online bill payments, if the bank returns a 'processed date' of today then use the payment date
  • When matching downloaded transactions that have check numbers, allow a 3x wider date window for potential merges
  • Fixed bug in which duplicating an existing mixed-interval (old style) budget caused the copy to become a new style budget
  • Entries in the transaction entry payee/description popup and now sorted properly

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Why have you decided to apply for this particular job?

Try to talk about the value you can (and want to) bring to their organization as a financial manager. You can explain how your education and previous experience prepared you for the role, how all jobs, and skills you gained while doing them, helped you to understand the life of an organization in terms of cash flow and profit and loss.

You can also refer to their company, the products/services they offer to final customers, their excellent reputation, values and goals, a great perspective for the future, or simply to anything that motivated you to apply with them, and not with some of their competitors.

Tell us something about your working experience. (Tell us more about the job you had with ABC company.)

If you read the job description carefully, and did some research about the company, by now you should know what will be expected from you, what you will you be responsible for in your new job.

Try to relate to these things while explaining your past experience–similar working duties, similar goals you tried to achieve for your past employers, lessons you learned while working for them, etc.

Avoid negative remarks about your former colleagues and bosses, and focus on the value you brought to the employer with your work. The key is to show them, while explaining what you did in the past, that at the moment of applying you are ready to handle the job, and to help them maximize their profits, and minimize their expenses.

What do you want to accomplish working as a Finance Manager?

Try to talk about things you want to accomplish for your employer, and not only for you.

Typically you will have access to balance sheets and cash flow statements of the company, for at least the last five years (in most modern world countries companies are obliged to share the documents publicly, and you will find it on a website of a governmental institution responsible for tax collection).

Study them in detail, and point out some areas for improvement, and particularly what you want to accomplish in these areas.

Obviously not everything is clear from the financial documents, and you may need to ask them some follow-up questions in an interview. But the bare fact that you studied the cash flow and balance sheet will make impression on the interviewers.

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Tell us about a time when your knowledge helped your past employer to save money.

You have plethora of options in this case. You can talk about a managerial decision, when you understood that some employees (accountants, financial analysts) working under you were doing a bad job. Tooth fairy 2 4 6. Replacing/relocating/training/firing these people, you helped your employer to save money.

Another good answer would refer to your accounting skills. Choosing the right method of depreciation, or planning expenses properly in various fiscal terms, according to profits of the company and their business plan, can also lead to significant cost reduction (in terms of taxes paid). Bock of ra kostenlos spielen.

You can also tell about a case when you reviewed a budget for a particular project/department, spotted expenses that weren't necessary, reduced them and again saved money for your employer.

Tell us about a time when you disagreed with your superior.

Good finance manager is not afraid to challenge the executives and their opinions. Talk about a conflict you had with one of your superiors, while trying to persuade them to make a decision which you thought would benefit the company.

Try to choose a situation that had a happy ending–when you eventually agreed, and proceeded according to your suggestions, or at least you learned something important in the situation.

And if you have never experienced the situation, say simply what you would do if you disagreed with your superior. You would clearly explain your reasons, in a calm and cheerful manner. Phonerescue 3 6 1 – ios data recovery program mac. At the end you would accept the decision of the executive (regardless of whether they approved your suggestion), because you respect their authority.

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Describe a time when you had to meet a tight deadline (preparing budget, report, presentation, etc).

Once again, your attitude matters more than the situation you narrate. Show the interviewers that you do not panic under pressure, that you know how to prioritize your work, do not mind staying overtime if necessary, and always do your best to meet the deadlines.

You can even talk about a situation when you failed to meet a deadline (if that's the one that stayed in your conscious memory). The key is to show them that you tried your very best, and did not panic.

If one of your subordinates made an error, how would you handle it?

Errors belong to the work of an accountant and financial analyst. Even the best accountants I had a honor to work with in my life made some mistakes (and they typically realized their mistakes a few hours or a few days later).

Show the interviewers that you have the right attitude to your colleagues. You can say that you would explain them the error, why it occurred, show them how to avoid it for the next time, and give them a short test exercise to ensure that they understood the issue clearly, and won't repeat the same error.

What do you expect from your subordinates, and from your superiors as a finance manager?

You can say that you expect them to give you feedback on your work (both supervisors and people working under you), that you hope to have clear and open communication with each one, and that you expect them to try their best in their respective jobs.

Another alternative is saying that you do not expect anything special from anyone. You simply focus on your job, and on being the best possible financial manager you can be. You take care of all your duties responsibly, and expect a lot from one person only–from yourself…

Other questions they may ask you in a financial manager interview

  • Why did you leave your last job? (Why do you plan to leave your present job?)
  • Where do you see yourself in five years time?
  • What computer software have you used in your work so far? How would it benefit you as a finance manager?
  • What's your experience with bench-marking studies?
  • What kind of financial reports have you prepared in the past?
  • Can you give me an example where you improved the quality/timeliness of the financial information?
  • Describe a situation when you had to motivate someone in work (your colleague, your subordinate, or even your superior).
  • Give an example of a time when you had a difficult person to manage and how you handled the situation.
  • Describe a situation when you reached a goal and tell us how you achieved it.
  • Describe the biggest failure of your professional career.
  • Many people apply for this position with us. Why should we choose you as our new finance manager?

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Summary and next steps

Finance manager is a prestigious job title, and you will always compete with some other people for the position. In most cases you will interview in front of a small panel, consisting from upper managers and some HR people. External recruiter may also be present.

They will use a combination of personal, behavioral, and technical questions, trying to get a good grasp of your personality and motivation, of your accounting, finance and communication skills.

The discussion about your working experience, especially any jobs you had within finance & accounting, will also form an important part of this interview.

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