ABLE Financial Appraisal

Financial Appraisal tests require you to make financial decisions such as investments on fictional organisations. You will be presented with extensive information dealing with a particular company. In addition you will be given a guidance booklet with information pertaining to certain general financial principles as well as a number of specific factors. These factors include negative asset risk, cash risk and financial cover ratio. The guidance booklet will also include different options of possible recommendations that you will be able to give as answers. The booklet will be made up of five guidance notes and four special notes. In addition, you will get a question and answer booklet with 21 cases that you will need to answer.

From all this information, together with any other additional details added in the actual questions, you will need to decide which financial recommendations to make about the company. Appraisal options include risk assessment, return potential and other investment recommendations. You will have 45 minutes to answer the 21 questions.

This test is one of the most popular types of ABLE tests used by employers. It is used by a large variety of companies including financial firms and investment banks.