“I don’t,” I answered.

“I need someone who can reconcile a bank statement without inventing a number and who knows how to tell a customer when they made a mistake.”

He solved the sample problem faster than I expected.

But there was an issue in the payroll scenario: one withholding figure did not match the provided rates.

“I think the example has an error,” he said, pushing the worksheet back toward me.

“I don’t want to adjust it without checking.”